Accelerating GTM and business strategies for life sciences and healthcare technology companies

With 25 years’ experience in marketing, strategy, sales leadership, and business consulting, Colleen Burns has held senior level marketing and sales positions in top global health companies such as Guidant, Boston Scientific, Abbott, IQVIA, Syneos Health, and Veeva.  She has successfully led organizations of all sizes through tremendous change and rapid revenue growth - from mergers and acquisitions to IPOs, leading marketing vision and strategy to help companies achieve growth objectives and spearhead transformative change, while building high-performing teams that operate in alignment with the organization’s mission. 

Colleen has worked with top healthcare leaders across the U.S. and Europe and has a reputation for combining strategic big picture thinking with operational excellence, a customer centric mindset, and purpose driven impact. She graduated with honors from University of Notre Dame, has a MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia, and has executive certifications in Healthcare Management and Leadership from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Harvard Business School.

An entrepreneur at heart, Colleen founded CBM Group in 2016 to provide flexible and scalable commercial leadership to help life sciences and medical technology companies grow and scale quickly. She works with multiple clients concurrently and splits her time between her two favorite places, Avalon, NJ, and Jupiter, FL. When she is not helping clients build and grow their businesses, she is fully enjoying all that living by the water offers – boating, kayaking, bike riding, golf, beach time, a great sunset, and her newest hobby, pickleball.