HLS and Harlan Labs appointed Corporate Vice President for Global Strategic Marketing

The contract research companies, Huntingdon Life Sciences(HLS) and Harlan Laboratories, recently announced the appointment of Joseph Bedford, Ph.D. as Corporate Vice President of Global Strategic Marketing. The creation of this new position strengthens the two firms’ international strategic marketing function across its Contract Research Services (CRS) and Research Models Services (RMS) business units. Dr. Bedford’s responsibilities include global marketing, business intelligence, strategic planning and aspects of corporate development. He heads up a global team of 19 staff and is a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team.

Prior to joining Huntingdon and Harlan, Dr. Bedford served as Vice President of Global Marketing at Taconic Biosciences, where he implemented a corporate renaming and rebranding initiative, enhanced CRO sales channel strategies and acted as the global lead of the marketing function for research models and services. Dr. Bedford’s other experience includes stints with Covance and the Almac Group covering a twelve year period. While serving as Associate Director of Global Market Research and then Director of Marketing and Strategy at Covance, Dr. Bedford played a key role in supporting decision making on business strategy, market positioning, and corporate development over a period in which Covance doubled its revenues from $800m to $1.7b. As Director of Marketing at the Almac Group, he was responsible for re-positioning the clinical technologies services business unit, helping it grow 4x, and leading the marketing efforts of Almac’s integrated clinical service offerings.