OUR TEAM

Carin Canale-Theakston is the president and founder of Canale Communications Inc. In her role as president, Carin works closely with client teams, having provided senior level strategy to more than 125 life science companies of all shapes and sizes ranging from pre-series A financing to billion dollar public companies such as Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. Through her career in life science communications, she has advised a diverse range of companies including biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, research organizations and providers of enabling technologies.

In addition to client services, Carin is actively involved in the life science community and is a member of the board of directors for BIOCOM, Southern California's life science trade association, and the San Diego Venture Group. A sought-after speaker, Carin frequently leads presentations and trainings on various communication topics for these organizations and others such as PRSA, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and California Healthcare Institute.

Prior to founding Canale Communications, Carin was president of the life sciences division of international public relations firm Porter Novelli, managing teams in San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. Carin joined Porter Novelli when the firm acquired boutique life sciences communication firm, Atkins + Associates, in which Carin was partner and managing director. Carin also held various positions for several agencies including Townsend Inc., Littlefield Communication and Burson-Marstellar. Before becoming engrossed in the agency world, Carin served as community relations director for a non-profit organization (Domestic Violence Intervention Services), where she generated global awareness, managed a national speaking circuit and supported the company's fundraising efforts.

Carin holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Tulsa with a major in communications and a minor in marketing.

Pam Lord is a senior vice president at Canale Communications, utilizing her 20+ years of diverse communications experience to develop strategic public and investor relations programs. Working in partnership with longstanding clients in the biopharmaceutical, diagnostics and enabling technologies sectors, she launches private start-ups, represents publicly-traded industry leaders and helps many companies in between manage their reputations. Pam has guided clients' communications for financings, partnerships, M&A, IPOs, reverse mergers, product launches, reorganizations, and changes in executive leadership with programs including media relations, thought leader positioning, crisis communications, investor relations, marketing communications and more. She has also created numerous events that have generated media coverage, investor interest and revenues. In 2008, her team was recognized with the Public Relations Society of America's Silver Bernays Mark of Excellence award for their investor relations program for Cepheid Inc.

Pam joined Canale Communications in 2010. Prior to that, she worked with Porter Novelli Life Sciences beginning in 2005, when the specialty-focused division of the global public relations agency was created after the acquisition of life sciences firm Atkins + Associates, which Pam joined in 2001. Previously, she worked at Eastwick Communications, a high-tech public relations agency, where her clients included software leaders and dot com start-ups. She also managed the public relations and marketing for San Francisco Ballet, expanding its international reputation as one of the country's premiere arts organizations. Pam earned a bachelor's degree in communications from University of California Santa Barbara. She holds an Advanced Regulatory Competency: Public Relations Certification from the Center for Communication Compliance.

For nearly ten years, Jason has been creating and implementing solutions-oriented communications programs that drive corporate reputation for the life sciences industry. Mixing a background in science with big agency experience, Jason has provided senior level counsel on corporate communications, public relations and investor relations for early-stage start-ups as well as $2.5 billion dollar commercial phase companies. Jason has spearheaded corporate and product communications for clinical, FDA approval and post-approval campaigns. He has led various IPO communications and M&A communications programs, and he has developed award winning investor relations programs. His clients have benefited from widespread recognition through top tier placements in print, broadcast and new (social) media outlets.

Jason's account teams won the 2008 and 2001 Bernays Mark of Excellence Award for the investor relations program developed and executed on behalf of Cepheid, Inc. and Sonus Pharmaceuticals, respectively. His account teams have been finalists for the SABRE Awards Financial Communications Program of the Year for the past two years. Through his work, Jason's clients have received widespread recognition through placements in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA TODAY, Forbes and BusinessWeek, as well as broadcast stories on CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, CNBC and local market networks.

Prior to Canale Communications, Jason was most recently a vice president at Porter Novelli where he spent five years in the Life Sciences division of Porter Novelli's Health Care practice. Jason was one of the original employees at Atkins + Associates, a life science communications agency that was later acquired by Porter Novelli. Before joining Atkins + Associates, Jason was a regional marketing representative for the Varsity Group, an agency deploying strategic marketing campaigns at grass roots levels for organizations such as Ben & Jerry's, Habitat for Humanity and VarsityBooks.com.

In his spare time, Jason is supporting the start-up and launch of Cinderella's Attic, a non-profit organization providing formal wear to underprivileged high school students.

Jason has a B.S. in biology from the University of California, San Diego.