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imre

Full-service AOR for healthcare marketing

Overview

Imre is a full-service marketing and communications partner that helps brands connect with people during life’s key moments. It serves healthcare (HCP & patient), wellness, and general consumer brands, acting as an agency-of-record for launches and ongoing lifecycle campaigns. Its work spans creative development, brand strategy, omnichannel marketing, influencer programs, media planning, and data analytics, with a focus on AI-optimization to improve performance. Compared with rivals, Imre stands out as an independent, LGBTQ+-founded agency backed by private equity, with more than 30 years of experience and a footprint in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The company's goal is to drive measurable brand engagement and decision-making by delivering practical, data-informed campaigns across channels.

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Simplify's Rating
Why imre is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsConsultingHealthcare

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, United States

Founded

1993

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What believers are saying

  • Imre's 2025-2026 leadership spree signals active investment, not a frozen turnaround.
  • New wins with Ascendis, AstraZeneca, CareDx, EMD Serono, and Precigen broaden revenue.
  • 2025 awards and 2026 honors support premium pricing and recruiting in a talent-tight market.

What critics are saying

  • RLH Equity Partners bought Imre in 2024, so exit pressure can distort hiring and margins.
  • Imre's AI positioning competes directly with Accenture Song, Klick, and large healthcare agencies.
  • If AI visibility commoditizes, the Conversation Converter becomes a feature, not a durable business.

What makes imre unique

  • Imre owns a healthcare-only launch model, combining strategy, media, medical, and analytics.
  • The June 2025 Conversation Converter positions Imre as an AI-search specialist for health brands.
  • Nadine Lafond, Paulina De la Riva, and Fred Hickman deepen integrated execution across launches.

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  • Remote Work Options

Company News

PR Newswire
Apr 8th, 2026
Imre appoints Paulina De la Riva as chief strategy officer to drive integrated performance model

Imre, a performance-driven creative agency specialising in healthcare and life sciences, has appointed Paulina De la Riva as Chief Strategy Officer. The move aims to strengthen the agency's integrated, performance-driven model. De la Riva brings over 18 years of experience from agencies including TBWA, McCann and Ogilvy Health. Starting her career in creative roles before moving into brand strategy and digital marketing, she offers expertise spanning business strategy, brand positioning and activation. Her mandate includes integrating Imre's specialised strategy capabilities—brand, medical, media and experience—with analytics into a unified model designed to enable faster deployment and stronger collaboration. The 33-year-old agency maintains offices in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, serving clients across healthcare marketing and brand launches.

PR Newswire
Mar 10th, 2026
Imre appoints Fred Hickman III as EVP to lead Account Services

Imre, a performance-driven creative agency specialising in healthcare and life sciences, has appointed Fred Hickman III as executive vice president and group account lead. He will lead the agency's account services department. Hickman brings 19 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience, most recently with Klick, where he led brand strategy and market development initiatives across rare disease, paediatrics, dermatology, ophthalmology and other therapeutic categories globally. The appointment comes as Imre builds an accelerated launch model for healthcare marketing. Hickman will help scale the agency's operating model whilst advancing its agile transformation to accelerate decision-making and deepen client integration. Founded 33 years ago, Imre is a full-service agency supporting brands across the lifecycle, with offices in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

PharmaLIVE
Mar 10th, 2026
Imre names Fred Hickman III as executive VP to lead account services

Imre names Fred Hickman III as executive VP to lead account services. Today Imre has announced the appointment of Fred Hickman III as executive VP, group account lead, where he will lead the agency's Account Services department. Fred brings 19 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience, with deep expertise spanning strategic marketing, commercial operations, and cross-functional leadership. Over the course of his career, and most recently with Klick, Fred has led brand strategy and market development initiatives across rare disease, pediatrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, autoimmune, neurological, and medical devices among other categories, in the US and around the globe, consistently balancing operational excellence and creativity, with the regulatory rigor required of life sciences. "Fred brings a rare combination of strategic precision, operational leadership excellence, and the kind of collaborative mindset that elevates the people around him," said Nadine Lafond, CEO of Imre. "He understands Account Services as the connective tissue of an agency - championing great work, strengthening client relationships, and driving delivery excellence, as both the translator of the client challenge, and as the final connection upon delivery of a deliverable. We're excited to welcome him and confident in the leadership he'll bring as we continue to scale." His appointment comes at a pivotal moment for Imre. As the agency builds a future-ready accelerated launchmodel designed for the realities of modern healthcare marketing - where speed, adaptability, and partnership are essential - Account Services will play a central role. Fred will be critical in scaling the agency's operating model to amplify the Imre approach, driving faster timelines, sharper accountability, and stronger competitive advantage for clients. Imre is intentionally committing to the agile principles that fueled its success, advancing a focused Agile transformation and refining organizational ways of working to accelerate decision-making and deepen client integration. Hickman's background in cross-functional leadership and commercial operations positions him to be instrumental in embedding these modern methodologies across teams. "I'm excited to partner with this team to help clients deliver solutions grounded in the real experiences of people living with these conditions," added Hickman. "By leading with empathy, practical thinking, and agility, we can ensure we're making a meaningful difference in the lives of the patients we're committed to serving." About Imre Imre is a performance-driven creative agency that connects people to brands for life's most important decisions. With roots 33 years deep in the worlds of digital, social, advertising and PR, Imre is now a full-service agency-of-record (AOR) supporting an impressive roster of accounts at all stages of the brand life cycle, including both HCP and DTC launches, led by a team of seasoned launch experts. Imre's innovative approaches span across creative, brand strategy, omnichannel marketing, AI optimization, influencer, paid media, and the latest in data and analytics. The agency maintains offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and is an LGBTQ-founded company.

PR Newswire
Jun 9th, 2025
Imre Introduces The Ai Conversation Converter

Agency launches First-in-Kind platform to quickly insert healthcare brands directly into the AI conversationNEW YORK, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Imre has cracked the GenAI visibility code with the Imre Conversation Converter, a proprietary platform and service that inserts brands directly into the new AI-led customer conversations. "400 million people are now using AI to search and make their decisions,"1 says Haifa Barbari, Imre's EVP of Innovation Strategy. "Healthcare customers are talking to AI, and they're acting on the answers they get. Our question for brands is, 'Are you even in the conversation?'"

PRWeek
May 7th, 2025
Imre hires Greg Voyles as chief growth officer

Voyles joins Imre from Syneos Health, where he served as VP of commercial solutions.

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