Driving your organisation’s success

Corporate & Financial Strategy | Investor Relations | Strategic Communications

Extensive experience, strategic insights and deep understanding of the life sciences sector make EJ Palmer Consulting a trusted and highly valued adviser. Examples of the kind of work undertaken are shown below.

Business plans
Conference interviewing & chairing
Grant writing
Innovation community engagement
Key messaging for financing & business development
Mentoring
Press releases and media relations
Profile raising
Social media
Stakeholder relations
Strategic communications strategy & execution
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About

Emma Palmer Foster is an experienced and engaged investor, director and consultant in the life sciences sector. With over thirty years of experience in finance, knowledge transfer and strategic communications, she’s helped dozens of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medtech organisations position themselves for success.

• Director of Discovery Park Ventures and portfolio companies
• Chair of UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Invention for Innovation (i4i) Product Development Panel
• MA in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford and MBA with Distinction from Durham University Business School

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Clients

Some of the current and previous clients of EJ Palmer Consulting include-

What clients say...

Emma Palmer Foster has been an invaluable partner to us, providing both strategic and transactional support in our communications efforts. She played a key role in helping us define a clear and effective marcomms strategy and plan, ensuring our messaging aligns with our broader objectives. Alongside this, she has delivered high-quality work on discrete PR pieces, helping us engage effectively with key stakeholders.
What truly sets Emma apart is her ability to adapt to the unique constraints of biotech companies, working seamlessly within our capabilities and resources while still delivering outstanding results. She is always eager to listen, learn, and understand the nuances of our work, and we have complete trust in her to meet our high standards with professionalism and precision. Her ability to combine strategic insight with a hands-on, results-driven approach makes her an outstanding consultant.
I worked with Emma Palmer Foster on a strategic portfolio assessment and communications approach as part of a corporate plan for my biotech. Emma brought deep biopharma communications expertise, strategic insight, and a clear, structured approach that helped refine our messaging to align stakeholders. Her ability to distil complex information into compelling narratives added real value to the project.
Emma's deep experience and proven expertise in strategic communications within the Biopharma sector has been beneficial across the MTM ecosystem. Her guidance on strategy, audience engagement, and media outreach has helped us to shape our approach. Additionally, Emma's insights provided through Communications Reviews have provided clear, actionable recommendations, helping us enhance our messaging and overall communications strategy.
Emma has regularly worked with us on pitching practice, to help our start-ups prepare for big Demo Day events. Emma always provides insightful feedback - on the strategic content of the pitches and also on the look of the slides and presentational style. Her experience in how to present to financial audiences such as investors, combined with her understanding of the science and business aspects makes her contribution hugely appreciated and results in a noticeable improvement in the pitches.
We have thoroughly enjoyed working with her and highly recommend her to any organisation seeking expert biotech communications support.
Emma helped us to look at our business strategy in a new way. That change in approach ultimately led to a successful exit, with our company being acquired a couple of years later.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Emma Palmer Foster in many guises over the last 8 or so years; both as a key point of contact for several of our science park relationships and also individually via her contribution to steering meetings, focus groups and as a speaker and moderator at many of our live life sciences events.
Emma always has excellent ideas and feedback – she is supportive, well connected, collaborative as well as solution driven and creative. She is always incredibly well prepared, great to work with and a wonderful ally to have in the industry.
Thanks...for the work you did to get us going with presentations etc... which was essential
Thanks for all your hard work in getting us up and running.
Grateful to Emma for doing such a great job in launching us.
...major driver in our fundraising ...presenting our case in compelling way ...we have benefitted enormously from Emma's involvement.
...bright, energetic and highly creative in outlook ...huge asset to our agency.
...enjoyed working with EJPC and value the significant part it played in the growth of SBC ...provided tremendous assistance with the development of the strategy and communications plan.
...impressed with EJPC's clear strategic thinking...played a pivotal role as a sounding board and was instrumental in getting the SBC vision out to the community.
...very friendly ...and great to have as part of the team.
...acted as an integral and valuable member of the team ...shown commitment and diligence in all work, which is always to a high standard.
...responsive to the company's needs while at the same time challenging thinking when appropriate... delivery focused...
...Emma works closely with the Board ...helps to ensure that the company's strategy is clarified and communicated effectively.
Contact
If you would like to know more about how EJ Palmer Consulting can help to develop your business, please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Emma Palmer Foster, Healthcare Consultant
Get in touch
emma@ejpalmerconsulting.com

+44 (0)7880 787185