Mr. DeChellis is an accomplished pharmaceutical marketer and health information technology (HIT) professional, providing value to companies in life sciences arena. He is experienced in a wide range of pharmaceutical industry initiatives and is a recognized strategic thinker.

As principal of NHHS Healthcare Consulting, Mr. DeChellis has focused efforts on HIT, online and offline promotion, marketing mix analytics, disease management and CRM initiatives. His experience, spanning thirty years in the pharmaceutical industry, includes management positions in marketing, managed care, field/trade sales, life cycle management and e-Business.

While at sanofi-aventis Mr. DeChellis was responsible for developing real-time eBusiness strategies and online tools to enhance education, and connectivity across the consumer and healthcare professional communities, including electronic health records and electronic prescribing. He was also responsible for aligning internal standards for online content development and process improvement to keep pace with the rapidly changing HIT environment. His work focused on marketing and medical education initiatives which encompassed working with a wide range of organizations including nonprofits, academic institutions, healthcare providers, government and HIT/commercial vendors.

Prior to joining sanofi-aventis eBusiness, Mr. DeChellis was Managing Director of Arcola Laboratories, a generic division of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. The company was established to track trends in the generic industry, identify and incorporate best practices for brand life-cycle management and compete in the generic marketplace. Knowledge of the generic business was infused into the business and brand planning process and was used to efficiently manage the impact of generic introductions on ‘at risk’ brands. Efforts also included developing long range generic business planning by class of trade.

Mr. DeChellis has also held pharmaceutical senior management positions in: product management, field sales, institutional marketing and sales operations.
Mr. DeChellis is a graduate of Kent State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree. He also is an active member of a number of Pharmaceutical Associations.