Gil Bashe Executive Vice President
Health

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” in 1993 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.