Debra Hussain

Senior Director of Marketing – MCE Lilly USA

Deb grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin and graduated with her Master’s degree in Audiology from Memphis State University.  After seven years practicing as a pediatric audiologist at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana, Deb and her husband relocated to South Carolina where she joined Eli Lilly and Company.  She has been with Lilly for the past 18 years in sales and marketing, with the vast majority of her experience in marketing roles across both the US Affiliate and Global Brand Development.  She possesses deep cardiovascular experience, extensive alliance experience, and she played a key role in the US launch of Effient.  Deb was most recently the Senior Marketing Director of IHP Marketing (CIALIS, Strattera, Axiron) and Puerto Rico within the US Bio-Medicine’s Business Unit, having profit and loss responsibility for $2B+ of revenue.  Most recently, she assumed the leadership role of a cross-functional team which is leading the transformation of the go-to-market model for healthcare professionals across all three business units.

Deb delivers strong results through building empowered, high achieving teams by focusing on individual development, accountability, and recognition.  She has extensive experience developing and executing the health care provider marketing strategy and efforts both on the global and affiliate side of the business, including hospital experience and US product launch, amongst the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular, osteoporosis, and Men’s Health.  She expanded her expertise to include robust direct to consumer marketing, payer marketing and contracting, and an expanded breadth of multi-channel marketing.  Deb also engages in the marketing community by serving as a marketing facilitator within Lilly, and by serving as a guest lecturer at the Butler Lacy College of Business and Indiana University Kelly School of Business.  She also serves on the board for Pharma Force and on the Strategic Marketing Board for the Lacy College of Business at Butler.

Deb’s free time is dedicated to doing volunteer work for Helping Challenged Children, LLC, which provides medical equipment to children in need, and she volunteers throughout the year with her family.   Her personal interests include playing volleyball, sketching, attending Green Bay Packers games as a loyal season ticket holder, cheering on the sidelines for her two very active children, and relaxing at the lake with her husband, kids, and friends.