Ford is a highly respected strategic business leader, with 18 years of documented success building winning businesses, brands and teams across both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Currently, Ford is a Senior Specialty Sales Consultant for Endo Pharmaceuticals.

Previously, Ford was a Product Manager for Alpharetta based, Halyard Health, where she isresponsible for leading a cross-functional team in new product development and Go-to-Market strategy and execution, while maximizing profit and market share for the legacymedical device portfolio for the Sterilization and Infection Prevention portfolio of products.

Ford’s previous roles held at Eli Lilly and Company and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals include US and Global Marketing, Sales & Sales Leadership, Sales Operations, Internal Consulting as a Six Sigma Blackbelt, Corporate and field-based training and development. Through her diverse roles across the commercialization platform she has developed deep expertise and a proven background of results in product development, launch execution and strategy, stakeholder management, contract negotiations, and process improvements all focused on identifying business opportunities and growing bottom-line results to improve the lives of people living with disease.

Ford is equally as passionate about making the community around her better. In her time outside of work you will most likely find her cheering on the soccer sidelines, or volunteering to help address homelessness and provide healthy food choices in Atlanta’s urban neighborhoods.

Ford earned her MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.