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ADVISORY/TargetRx CEO Mike Luby to Keynote at WBR's PharmaForce Conference; Pharma Sales and Marketing Expert to Discuss Sales Force Quality Metrics and Drivers of Physician Prescribing.


TargetRx--
WHO:    TargetRx CEO, Mike Luby, will deliver a keynote presentation
        and lead the "Sales Force Strategies and Leadership
        Development" track at the upcoming WBR PharmaForce Conference.

WHAT:   In his presentation, "Evaluating Sales Force Performance:
        Quantity vs. Quality," Luby will use case studies and personal
        experiences working with major pharmaceutical companies to
        evaluate the industry's method of measuring sales force
        effectiveness, which has traditionally focused almost entirely
        on quantity metrics, as the area of quality was not entirely
        understood. Luby will outline how sales force quality metrics
        can more accurately reveal how well a sales force is
        executing, based on the major drivers of physician
        prescribing.

        At WBR PharmaForce, leaders from the pharmaceutical,
        biopharmaceutical and health care industries will gather to
        discuss a range of topics, including sales force optimization,
        physician access, incentive compensation, sales training and
        leadership, data analysis and sales force technology. With
        keynote presenters from top pharmaceutical companies,
        including Pfizer and Eli Lilly, the event provides attendees
        with insight into how to implement successful training models
        to maximize market share, overcome the difficulties in
        accessing customers, design and administer optimal incentive
        compensation plans, and employ best practices for augmenting
        sales force strategies using the latest technologies.

WHEN:   The WBR PharmaForce Conference will be held September 19-21,
        2006.

        Luby's presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, September 20,
        at 9:55 a.m.

WHERE:  Doral Forrestal Conference Center & Spa, Princeton, NJ


About Mike Luby

Michael J. Luby is a co-founder of TargetRx. Luby brings more than 15 years of pharmaceutical marketing and sales experience from a variety of therapeutic areas to his role as President, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and Board Member of the Company. As the CEO since the Company's inception in 1999, Luby has succeeded in raising over $50 million in capital, expanding the TargetRx team to more than 100 employees, and securing clients in the majority of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Luby is also the lead author on TargetRx's patented method of analyzing the effectiveness of marketing and sales strategies. Luby has been honored hon·or  
n.
1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate.

2.
a. Good name; reputation.

b.
 with the Philadelphia Business Journal's "40 Under 40" award and selected by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 most inspiring people in life sciences. TargetRx has also received the Eastern Technology Council's Enterprise Award for Life Sciences Growth Company of the Year.

Prior to starting TargetRx, Luby spent 10 years at Merck & Co., Inc., where he created and executed marketing strategies for both the specialty and mass markets. The concept for TargetRx was born from his dissatisfaction with the lack of insightful, predictive and actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action.

An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it.
 marketing information from external sources during his tenure at Merck. As senior director of marketing, worldwide for new products at Merck, Luby spearheaded global pre-launch strategy and planning activities for two late-stage development products. He also served as director of new product marketing, managing the marketing strategy of early-stage drug development candidates and evaluating the potential of in-licensing opportunities from biotech bi·o·tech  
n. Informal
Biotechnology.


biotech
Noun

short for biotechnology

Noun 1.
 companies. Luby's previous roles included marketing management and research analyst positions for successful drugs such as Fosamax Fos·a·max

A trademark for the drug alendronate sodium.


alendronate sodium

Fosamax

Pharmacologic class: Bisphosphonate

Therapeutic class: Bone-resorption inhibitor

, now a multi-billion dollar brand, Vasotec Vas·o·tec

A trademark for the drug enalapril maleate.


enalapril maleate

Innovace (UK), Vasotec

Pharmacologic class: Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor

Therapeutic class:
 and Prilosec Pri·lo·sec

A trademark for the drug omeprazole.


omeprazole

Losec (CA) (UK), Heartburn Relief (UK), Prilosec, Prilosec OTC, Zegerid, Zanprol (UK)

Pharmacologic class: Proton pump inhibitor

, as well as positions focusing on marketing to managed care customers, including an assignment at Merck-Medco Managed Care.

Luby holds a B.A. in economics from Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972.  and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s oldest business school. .

About TargetRx

TargetRx is a pharmaceutical sales and marketing effectiveness Marketing Effectiveness is the function of improving how marketers go to market with the goal of optimizing their marketing spend to achieve even better results for both the short-term and long-term. Also related to Marketing ROI and Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI).  company that provides actionable insight to pharmaceutical companies to help them effectively sell and market their products and improve their financial performance. TargetRx has developed a highly predictive, database of physician attitudes that it uses in combination with its patented analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal
adj.
1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics.

2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner.

3. Psychoanalytic.
 methods to provide pharmaceutical companies with powerful "leading indicators Leading Indicator

A measurable economic factor that changes before the economy starts to follow a particular pattern or trend. Leading indicators are used to predict changes in the economy, but are not always accurate.
" of how their sales and marketing initiatives will affect physician prescribing. TargetRx benchmarks performance, identifies immediate improvement opportunities and predicts future performance for its clients. TargetRx works with the majority of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. For further information, visit www.targetrx.com.
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