Gil Bashe

Gil Bashe heads the Makovsky Health practice and offers the big-agency perspective and specialty-firm expertise – with experience in brand positioning, crisis and issues management, and product pre-launch and launch communications.

Prior to Makovsky, Gil launched Health!Quest Communications, obtaining $60 million from GTCR Golder Rauner, a leading private-equity firm. He served as CEO of CommonHealth, the world’s largest health-marketing consortium, and at WPP Group sister-company, Hill and Knowlton, as EVP and worldwide director of the Health and Pharmaceutical practice. Prior to H&K, Gil led a healthcare PR firm recognized by the influential industry publication Inside PR as “Hottest Healthcare Agency.”

Gil was honored by the PR industry with its “All-Star Award” and has received numerous other awards for creativity including the PRSA Silver Anvil, Big Apple and SABRE. He is the immediate American Heart Association, NY Affiliate past-chairman, and former national board member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.