HBA

• Woman Of The Year
• Rising Stars
• Honorable Mentor
• Star Volunteer
• ACE Award

HBA Star Volunteer*

In 1999, the HBA established its Star Volunteer award to honor one member who has made a significant commitment and contribution to the association and its members.

2010 Star Volunteer is Charlene Prounis

Charlene Prounis is managing partner of Flashpoint Medica. Her motto has long been, “If you can dream it up, you can make it happen.” Charlene knows how to dream big.

Charlene has been very active in the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association and served as president on both the corporate and chapter level, first in 1998 as president of the HBA and again in 2004, as president of the newly created Metro chapter. She has co-chaired the Woman of the Year committee several times, serves as a chapter mentor, and is involved in promotional materials development for the ACE award and Metro chapter. In a mentoring role, she helps many HBA women advance their careers in healthcare.

Charlene has always dreamed of helping others and becoming a successful businesswoman. Charlene worked as head nurse of the MICU at North Shore University Hospital before moving into pharmaceutical sales with Searle Labs. She made a career transition into advertising and spent 12 years with Grey Healthcare Advertising. Then she made her entrepreneurial dream come true. Charlene founded Accel Healthcare with other partners, and grew it to a top 20 agency before merging it into Corbett Accel.

Now at the helm of her second agency, Flashpoint Medica, she continues to be a visionary force for her clients’ brands. Never content to settle for “good enough,” she constantly challenges herself and her team to come up with innovative ways to launch brands, address changing market dynamics, and drive sales. She runs workshops for clients on everything from positioning to speaker training. Charlene is also focused on empowering future generations to make their own dreams come true by serving as the leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop. With Charlene’s adventurous spirit and propensity for innovation, the question on everyone’s mind is, “What will she dream up next?”

• ATLANTA Jan Hannon, President, Envision Communications, Inc.
• BOSTON Karla Gonye, National Director, HBA 
• CHICAGO Kimberly Farrell, CEO/President, Unlimited Performance Training, Inc.
• INDIANA Teresa Pascarelli, President & COO, DCL Medical Laboratories  
• MID-ATLANTIC Susan Torroella, President, Columbia MedCom Group 
• METRO Charlene Prounis, President, Corbett Accel New York 
• SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Gayathri Koundinya, Senior Manager, Commercial Operations, CV Therapeutics