Fast-growing Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has ended the year by recruiting three more staff.
Ben Price joins as commercial account director and Tom Hunt as project manager while Matt Sugrim becomes the agency’s first in-house animator. 
Create Health, which works on global and national campaigns for major healthcare brands such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, ConvaTec, BD and HOYA, has expanded steadily since it changed ownership in a management buy-out (MBO) in March.
Ben Price, pictured right, brings extensive experience in medical sales and marketing having previously worked as senior European marketing manager for British multinational medical equipment manufacturer Smith & Nephew.
He said: “I’ve spent a large portion of my career as a client and I’ve joined Create Health as I see it as a talented and growing agency that has huge scope to impact the world of medical device marketing at a particularly challenging and interesting time for the industry.”
Tom Hunt has arrived at Create Health from Medical Protection, the UK’s largest medical indemnity provider. His new role will involve taking projects from initial client ideas to fruition, across the client base.
Tom, pictured below, who has also worked at Havas and Golley Slater, said: “I joined Create having been fascinated by the advancements in new healthcare technology and treatments, and wanted to play a role in transforming these ideas to the people that need them most.
“Having spent my marketing career learning how best to understand my audience behaviour and mindset, I am looking forward to bringing this to my new role here at Create Health.”
Matt Sugrim joins the team permanently after freelancing as an animator and CGI generalist for several years. 
He described the move as a chance to work with an experience and dedicated agency deeply embedded in the bio-medical side of the creative world and said he was keen to work in a team that could guide his work to new heights.
“I am most excited about helping to develop Create Health’s motion and CGI offering – making some of the creative industry’s most powerful and rapidly developing tools available to our clients,” he added.
These appointments follow those of Polly Buckland as strategy director and Ollie Davies as finance manager in October and take the agency’s head count to above 20.
More growth is on the cards as a result of the MBO, which passed ownership from Bristol-born entrepreneur Darren Clare – who founded the agency 10 years ago – to managing director Ed Hudson and creative director Phil Blackmore.
Ed added: “The Create Health evolution continues – we’ve ended the year with a restructure, changing to a pod system that’s focused around bringing together a dedicated range of specialisms for each client, rather than teams separated by job title.
“We’ve been able to choose talented, ambitious new team members and we’re particularly excited about having a permanent animator in Matt as we’ve produced some powerful, successful animated projects this year and we can only see this area growing.”
