Renelle Kelmar

Marketing Operations, Veeva Expert

Renelle Kelmar

Renelle Kelmar brings over 20 years of experience in a variety of marketing roles in the healthcare industry. Her expertise spans product and corporate marketing, marketing operations, branding, public relations, advertising, and social media. She boasts excellent project management skills and has worked on launching a multitude of products in a variety of therapeutic areas.

Renelle began her work in the pharmaceutical industry with10 years at Gilead Sciences, where she helped launch drugs for Hepatitis, PAH, Ischemic Heart Disease, and Cystic Fibrosis. During her time at Gilead, Renelle earned her MBA and transitioned from event planning and operations into strategic marketing, overseeing advertising, sponsorships, and product promotion.

After she left Gilead, Renelle found her niche in pre-commercial pharma, where she led efforts in disease-state education, product branding, corporate communications, and materials creation. She also instituted and managed promotional review processes, as companies readied themselves for launch. With her extensive marketing background, she effectively promoted and established credibility for new products from lesser known companies, and was a key contributor to the most successful biosimilar launch in history, with UDENYCA.

Renelle graduated with honors in Kinesiology from UC Berkeley and earned her MBA with high honors from Golden Gate University.