About us

We have extensive experience with healthcare clients and our team is a blend of digital creative and experienced pharmaceutical marketers

Our Team

With over 100 years of experience between us, LVC hand-selects the finest team for your project, we know what you need. Our strong portfolio of innovation places our clients at the heart of our work.

Dave Ford
Managing Director

Dave Ford

Managing Director

Dave brings his strong and varied background in business to LVC. His strategic approach and focus on the customer experience our clients enjoy is central to the growth of our company.

Dr. Laura Obiols
Medical Consultant

Dr. Laura Obiols

Medical Consultant

Laura is a Spanish PhD Pharmacist, who also completed an MBA at LSE and has been based in London for the past 22 years. She has been consulting for the past 15 years. Specialist focus on Oncology, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Antimicrobials and Orphan Diseases.

Key expertise: Market access and medical writing
Dr. Neil Ravenhill
Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Neil Ravenhill

Chief Medical Officer

Neil has deep strategic comms and branding expertise gained by working on medical, scientific, commercial and corporate projects throughout the pharma, healthcare, and tech industries. Neil’s holistic solution-driven approach has been honed across global, US, ex-US, and local markets.

Key expertise: Strategic and tactical skills within healthcare
Dr. Chris Levy
Medical Consultant

Dr. Chris Levy

Medical Consultant

With over 22 years experience within the healthcare field, Dr Christopher Levy brings his personal knowledge of the patient and clinician experience to the LVC team.

Mike Ravenhill
Director

Mike Ravenhill

Director

As founder of LVC, Mike brings his graphic design background to the forefront of our business, merging his passion for outstanding visuals and functionality with his years of healthcare and experience.

Key expertise: Design and storytelling
Dinara Omarova
Communications Consultant

Dinara Omarova

Communications Consultant

With over six years in Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Dinara helps the team to focus on their messaging and social media strategy whilst boosting their media presence in the industry.

Chris Sandiford
Market Access Consultant

Chris Sandiford

Market Access Consultant

Chris is a deep strategic thinker and compliments the team with 15 years of industry experience in blue chip pharma and a pedigree for outstanding results. His passion for product uptake through subnational engagement, Chris adds an access lens to all phases of the product life cycle.

Key expertise: Access strategy and subnational NHS engagement
Aaron Bishop
Technical Adviser

Aaron Bishop

Technical Adviser

With his analytical mindset and passion to solve technology problems, Aaron brings over 15 years of experience in software development and cybersecurity. At LVC Aaron is responsible for innovation and the application of progressive technological advancement into our client solutions.

Key expertise: Technology and digital strategy

Please speak with us about joining this dynamic team

Our History

Lighthouse was founded in 1982 when web was still science fiction and videotape a novelty.

As a company established for 40 years, it is not surprising that excellence in customer service, innovation and the ability to listen to customers is core to our DNA. Any company with this much history has the right to look back with fondness and pride at past achievements. However, what has enabled this story is not a retrospective purview, but one of forward thinking, planning and weighting our priorities to the future challenges our clients will face, and the technology and design innovations that enable them to deliver their messages.

This timeline bookmarks some of the significant moments across the last 40 years, telling our story to date. The most exciting chapters of our story are yet to be written, they will involve technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and simplifying your complex datasets.

History Timeline

1982

Company formed by Steve Penticost, first client in 1982 was Trafalgar House Group (which included Ideal Homes, Cunard amongst others)

Projects to date: 1

Office: Back bedroom

1989

Produced and staged media launch for UK’s first mobile phone network – Unitel Personal Communications – now EE

Projects to date: 692

Office: Hope Sufferance Wharf, SE16

1998

Created the sales tools and videos for Bombay Sapphire’s acquisition by Bacardi.

Projects to date: 1865

Office: Great Suffolk street, London SE1

2000

Started working for Thomson Holidays (TUI today). Went on to produce over 600 destination videos. Still a client today – 22 years on.

Projects to date: 2044

Office: Great Suffolk street, SE1

2003

Entered the healthcare market with a 3D animation for an Anti-fungal drug.

Projects to date: 2259

Office: Farnham, Surrey

2011

First iPad project – a virtual training aid on Pulmonary hypertension for Bayern.

Projects to date: 2782

Office: Farnham, Surrey

2015

Big data – bespoke development of data visualisation tools for IMS (now IQVIA)

Projects to date: 3351

Office: Alton, Hampshire

2020

Name change to LVC Digital Health, to emphasise our commitment to the healthcare sector.

Projects to date: 3707

Office: Alton, Hampshire and London SE1

2022

LVC team grows with the addition of medical, technical and communications specialists.

Projects to date: 3920

Office: Alton, Hampshire and London SE1

“LVC is one of the few agencies that I have been working with that manage to deliver materials with excellent quality and are able to accommodate changes in a flexible and agile way, without impact timelines.”

Customer Engagement Manager, Sanofi

“I have been collaborating with LVC on a diabetes app. Throughout the process they have been thoughtful, creative, flexible and fun to work with.

I have had the opportunity to road test the app with two medicines manager customers, it was well received and delivered something they found useful as well as fulfilling our commercial objective in two key accounts.”

Sanofi

“This is just a short note to say a big thank you to you and the LVC team for the work done designing and producing the Intelligenic website.

And spot on the brief that we provided on the “look & feel” that we wanted to create for Intelligenic.
Well done, on a job well done!”

Intelligenic

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