Guy Pascoe, Director
Before co-founding Purdie Pascoe in 2008, Guy led the medical device practise of Synovate Healthcare for six years. He has managed over 200 multinational studies in the medical device and diagnostics industry.
Debbie Higham, Research Director
Debbie has over 20 years of international healthcare market research experience. She started her market research career with NOP Healthcare in 1992, conducting and managing both qualitative and quantitative projects for global clients.
Lindsey Bernal, Research Director
Lindsey joined Purdie Pascoe in July 2009 from GfK HealthCare. She started at GfK NOP (then Milpro) in 1994, working in Marianne’s medical device-focused team for 4 years before moving to Martin Hamblin in 1998.
Sophie Baker, Research Director
Sophie started her international healthcare market research career in early 2005 with Medex Research, a market research agency specialising in medical device market research.
Marianne Purdie, Director
Marianne has over 25 years of international healthcare market research experience, gained in both client-side and agency environments. She started her market research career with Upjohn, now part of Pfizer.
Marcus Torr, PMCF / MDR Lead
Marcus joined Purdie Pascoe in 2015, with a First Class MSci in Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Pharmacology) from the University of Bath.
Since joining he has rapidly gained experience and skill in quantitative research and has led, and grown, the PMCF team at Purdie Pascoe for the last four years, who provide PMCF survey solutions to the medical device industry to ensure EU-MDR compliance.
He has extensive knowledge in the specific requirements surrounding PMCF surveys, having overseen over 300 surveys for several of the leading global Medical Device manufacturers across a variety device types. These surveys have been approved by several of the leading Notified Bodies and consist of both end user general surveys and high-quality patient specific surveys.
Vanessa Slade, Research Director
Vanessa Slade joined Purdie Pascoe in 2021 as an Associate Director.
She has a BSc (Hons) in Biology with Modern Language (Spanish) from the university of Manchester, which included a 10-month placement in the Ecology Department of the University of Barcelona.
She’s gained qualifications in marketing (Professional Certificate, Chartered Institute of Marketing) and market and social research practice (Advanced Certificate, Market Research Society), as well as gaining a position on a graduate scheme where she was awarded the role of Operations and Marketing Executive in her final year.