About Us
Mesara Advisors is unique.
Discover why.
Mesara Advisors understands the critical importance of aligning corporate affairs strategy with business and commercial goals.
We have C-level experience in healthcare and other highly regulated industries both in the United States and globally, spanning external and internal communications, brand, reputation, public affairs, and advocacy. We provide communications and corporate affairs counsel that is thoughtful, pragmatic, and actionable.
What We Do
We counsel CEOs, C-suite leaders, and corporate affairs executives on communications and public affairs to achieve the right business outcomes.
We can provide insight on strategy, structure, organization, and talent; expert execution of communications initiatives and programs; interim or fractional leadership for communications and public affairs departments; and assistance representing the critical importance of corporate affairs and communications to C-suites and boards, emphasizing the business value of getting corporate affairs right.
- Healthcare: corporate and marketing communications
- Internal and external communications
- Brand and reputation management
- International communications
- Issues management
- Fractional leadership
Meet Our Leadership
We bring C-level corporate experience and a global perspective
Gulden Mesara
Strategic Communication | Branding | Business Transformation
Communications and marketing executive with Fortune 100 and healthcare system experience.
Gulden Mesara is a C-Suite communications and public affairs leader and a dynamic change agent with a proven track record of effectively counseling executive leadership, building strong teams, and shaping business strategy to enhance reputation and stakeholder trust. Her achievements have earned her numerous honors, including Marketer of the Year (PM360), Top Women in Retail (Mass Market Retail), Top Women in PR (PRNews), Top 30 Health Influencers (PRWeek) and the Silver Anvil (PRSA).
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Gulden’s experience in healthcare in distinctive, spanning the pharmaceutical industry in the US and globally; a pharmacy chain, and a health system. She has held senior leadership roles at Pfizer, Abbott, AbbVie, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and City of Hope, driving impactful strategies across branding, marketing, communications, and public affairs. At Pfizer, Gulden held local, regional, and global roles spanning marketing, communications, and government affairs. She established the public affairs function in Pfizer Turkey and led regional efforts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America, Asia, and top emerging markets. At Abbott, she led global public affairs for the pharmaceuticals business and played a key role in the spin-off of AbbVie as a new global biopharmaceutical leader. As Vice President of Global Commercial and Health Communications at AbbVie, she built and led a worldwide public affairs, marketing communications, and patient advocacy team supporting all therapeutic areas and geographies. Gulden later joined Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) as Chief Communications Officer for Walgreens, overseeing U.S. and global communications, including high-profile corporate events. Most recently, she served as Chief
Communications, Marketing, and Culture Officer at City of Hope, the nation’s only health system exclusively focused on cancer research and care, where she led brand transformation and national expansion efforts.
Gulden holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; an MS in Public Relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University; and a BA in Political and Administrative Sciences from the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey.
She is a member of the Arthur Page Society and the Seminar and serves on several boards including SUPSAN (a European auto parts company), the Center for PR at the University of Southern California, and the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation. Gulden is also a partner at FHS Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on early-stage professional service and technology businesses that deliver high-value niche expertise to chief communications and chief marketing officers. She has lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Brussels, Geneva, Istanbul, and Dubai.
Career Highlights:
Our success relies on our accomplishments and experience,
as well as on who we are and how we operate.
We Value
INTEGRITY
We do the right thing.
WISE COUNSEL
We give you the best chance at winning.
BIAS FOR ACTION
We shape what happens next.
RESILIENCE
We are undeterred.
Why We’re Unique
- We bring business savvy to the art of corporate communications and public affairs. We understand commercial strategy and have successfully driven it for large and small organizations alike.
- We’ve sat shoulder-to shoulder with our business colleagues at all levels to set strategy and deliver results in our functional areas that drive value for the business.
- We have built and led multiple successful corporate affairs teams, campaigns, and initiatives, shaping favorable external operating environments for companies both large and small, building and defending corporate reputation, and communicating impactful business stories.
This experience gives us unique perspective that can often be missing in communications and public affairs work.
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