Helen Blackholly

Helen Blackholly

Vice-President for Technical Services

Helen is responsible for the Technical Services Department, which includes the development of partnership best practice and channel success models, and working closely with the Operations Department to ensure best practice is followed in all countries.

She is also responsible for leading on the development of social marketing, client contact centre strategy, medical abortion core packages, global supply chain, and health financing to assist country programmes in leveraging domestic financing opportunities.

Helen brings more than 20 years of hands-on commercial experience in demand generation. Her primary areas of expertise are: go-to-Market channel strategy development; revenue management; sales and marketing activation new product launch excellence, and designing and building effective teams.

Helen has worked in leadership roles across a range of retail and consumer goods manufacturing companies including Revlon UK, Colgate Palmolive, and Reckitt Benckiser. She has a MSc in Biological Anthropology from University College London and a PhD in Food Policy from the University of Bradford.