Amy Pearson-Wales
- Role
- Head of Marketing and Communications at First Mode
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amy Pearson-Wales
As head of marketing and communications, Amy leads her team to define, shape, and deliver cross-functional impact that elevates the people and innovations of First Mode, a product innovation company accelerating the global clean energy transition with decarbonization solutions for heavy industry. Prior to First Mode, Amy worked for nearly 20 years in global health technology communications, most recently at Global Health Labs, Inc, an entity of Gates Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier in her career, Amy helped crystalize and amplify the technology sector’s role in responsible (product) design, and before that, co-led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation book of business at global PR agency Weber Shandwick. Amy also served in-house at PATH, where she helped strengthen the profile and reputation of novel vaccine technologies now procured by the billions for use in low- and middle-income countries. Amy earned her MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Comparative Health and Social Policy from Oxford University, dual BA in Spanish-Language Literature and International Relations from Middlebury College, and post-graduate certificate in Women’s Health Advocacy from the Institute of Social Studies Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2021, while SVP of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at SlightLife, then the largest eye bank and corneal health innovator in the world, Amy was awarded the National Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award by the American Marketing Association Foundation.
Experience
Head of Marketing and Communications
Aug 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
Middlebury College
Dual B.A., Spanish & Latin American Studies, Sociology
1997 — 2001
University of Oxford
M.Phil Research Master's Degree, Comparative Health & Social Policy
2002 — 2004
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Participatory Approaches to Health Advocacy (Practicum Certified), Comparative Health Policy
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