Ayesha Bharmal

Ayesha is a Partner in Brunswick's global Healthcare and Life Sciences team, working with clients from major pharmaceutical and medical device developers to biotech and healthtech companies.

Ayesha joined Brunswick from the Royal Household where she was Chief Marketing Officer for Pitch@Palace, an initiative set up to help tech entrepreneurs build global access and connectivity. Prior to this, she spent six years with AstraZeneca as Global Media Relations Director and, latterly, Director of Business Development and Partnering Communications, leading the company’s communications around all major transactions.

This followed eight years with the communications consultancy Fishburn Hedges, where Ayesha built and led the agency’s Healthcare Practice, supporting clients on issues ranging from NHS reform to the introduction of the smoking ban in England to medicine shortages.

Ayesha’s early career included a focus on consumer technology, both in agency and as Press Officer to the Minister for e-Commerce in the then Department of Trade and Industry.