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We`re Benchworks. An independent life sciences agency with over 25 years of experience in healthcare marketing, Benchworks brings healthcare brands to life with creative, strategy, innovation, and implementation of complete marketing and branding solutions across all stages of the product life cycle. Our culture is rooted in collaboration, progressive thinking, graciousness, and a dynamic business model that allows our team to demonstrate their creativity, value, and expertise every day. We are driven by the need to respond to the challenges our clients face in a rapidly changing healthcare environment. We elevate our strategic thinking to deliver solutions that maximize a brand`s impact on the market, ultimately helping clinicians and patients make better decisions about their health. Although we support many brands at different stages of their life cycle, we are commercialization experts and understand how to maximize the most important events, from prelaunch preparation and brand development, to launch and beyond. Benchworks is also known for superior execution of a wide variety of strategic and tactical assignments, delivered efficiently and on budget. Our teams pursue operational excellence by not only honing their own skills but adapting to individual client needs. We excel at collaborating internally and externally with a wide variety of stakeholders and agency partners.
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners, including Akuna`s CEO Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm`s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and Boston. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company`s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna`s growth profile is ahead of us.
We believe we are here to fan the flames of inspiration. Inertia and the status quo are unacceptable. But you can’t inspire unless you know the right buttons to push, and you don’t know what buttons to push without understanding who you’re talking to. That takes a relationship. A give-and-take, back-and-forth relationship. With each other. Clients. Consumers. And shoppers. That’s how you get to understanding. That’s how you get to the good stuff.
The right amount of strategic sales and marketing support to address your unique challenges, and increase your revenue.
We are driven by our relentless quest to be Chicago`s most creative company by building iconic brands through craft and culture. Havas Chicago brings an unmatched understanding of emerging consumers` mindsets and behaviors, and a passion for embracing tomorrow`s trends shaping business and pop culture.