Khurrum Saleem · Founder & Managing Director, KS Growth Advisory
Decades of commercial leadership, business development and growth across healthcare, pharma, biotech, medical communications / education, real world evidence — from global life-science organisations to specialist agencies and entrepreneurial growth environments.
See the Full JourneySenior roles across the industry have included some of the most respected names in pharma, life-sciences and medical communications:
Deep experience doesn't mean arriving with a predetermined answer. It means arriving with better questions.
I've been on the growth journey A track record of building growth
Across healthcare, pharma, biotech, medical communications / education and real world evidence, Khurrum has helped businesses sharpen their propositions, build commercial teams and develop lasting relationships with global pharma clients.
The journey, across roles
At PeerVoice, instrumental in building a European and global medical education business — from its early stages to a multimillion-dollar global operation and the leading contributor to P\S\L Group.
Strong businesses are built by combining a compelling proposition with disciplined commercial execution — and great people.
Khurrum is a highly skilled and experienced business developer who played a pivotal role in enhancing my own sales capabilities. The success stories of many individuals who benefited from his mentorship speak volumes about his impact. He is a great listener and motivator — collaborative, respectful and always willing to roll up his sleeves. I would recommend Khurrum to any business; his influence can be significant and transformative.
Khurrum was instrumental in guiding PeerVoice through an unprecedented period of growth. His sales were consistently high and his team were the largest net contributors in the group during my seven years working with him. He combines a strong focus on targets with the ability to see the bigger picture, challenge constructively and support those around him.
Khurrum is a superior talent. He set very specific direction that led to everyone on his team achieving our highest sales category — an extremely difficult result that speaks to his hiring and development capabilities. His team loved him, and he is also great fun to work with.
Khurrum's support and leadership were instrumental in the development of my career, and I owe many of my successes at PeerVoice to his direction. He leads by example, serves as an inspiring mentor and is someone his team trusts. I have no hesitation in recommending him; he is an asset to any organisation.
After a long career in healthcare, Khurrum's enthusiasm for building businesses, developing people and discovering new opportunities hasn't diminished. It has grown.
Experience provides perspective. Curiosity creates possibilities. Commercial discipline creates momentum. People make growth sustainable.
Organisations worked with and alongside across a long career of previous roles — shown as experience, not as KS Growth Advisory clients.
After many years working across healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical communications and medical education, one lesson has remained remarkably consistent — potential begins to outpace commercial capability.
I've worked with talented people, strong businesses, excellent science and compelling propositions. Yet I've repeatedly seen organisations reach a point where the opportunity is there — but something is missing between knowing what is possible and making it happen.
Sometimes it's positioning. Sometimes strategy. Sometimes leadership. Sometimes business development capability. And sometimes a founder simply benefits from having an experienced commercial partner alongside them.
That insight became the WHY behind KS Growth Advisory — to make experience available more flexibly, more personally and more practically, particularly to ambitious smaller businesses.
KS Growth Advisory brings the experience gained from major organisations and from building PeerVoice / P\S\L Group together with the agility and entrepreneurial mindset required by today's start-ups, scale-ups and specialist healthcare businesses.
The result: senior commercial thinking delivered directly, flexibly and practically — where it can have immediate impact.
One belief shapes who I help; one mission shapes what a great engagement leaves behind.
Smaller businesses often have real power — expertise, agility, passion and ideas. What they may not yet have is every part of the commercial infrastructure for the next stage of growth. I help bridge that gap while preserving what makes them special.
Sustainable growth is more than revenue — it's capability, confidence, stronger leadership and repeatable commercial behaviours. My aim is to leave the organisation stronger than I found it.
Four principles I bring into every engagement — the practical patterns behind decades of building healthcare businesses.
Start every engagement with the questions that reveal where growth really lives.
Hands-on with founders, CEOs and BD teams inside the real work, not from the sidelines.
Commercial rhythms, pipeline governance and repeatable behaviours that outlast the engagement.
Coach the team so tomorrow's growth is theirs to lead — long after we've stepped away.
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