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Ian Stone

Managing Director

Fast Facts

  • What was your first job?

    Serving wine at my grandfather’s winery when I was 11 or 12.

  • Favorite late-night food?

    Anything from a San Diego taco shop – carne fries especially.

  • Dream dinner guest?

    Desus and Mero! I know it would be hysterical conversation.

  • Why are you passionate about the life sciences?

    The combination of passion and rapid advances give me hope the industry will create meaningful advances for my kids’ generation to see diseases like cancer very differently.

  • Favorite CanaleComm memory?

    In my first week, we had a singing telegram dressed like a chicken serenade Carin for her birthday. I knew I was in the right place then.

Full Bio

Since joining CanaleComm in 2013, Ian has provided leadership and strategic direction to numerous client accounts, with an emphasis on media relations and investor-facing communications. He has created and implemented strategic communications platforms for life science companies at virtually every stage of development, with projects that range from launching an initial corporate identity, to announcing venture rounds and clinical data, and supporting IPOs, commercial product launches and company acquisitions. Ian’s work has led to client news coverage in media outlets that reach key audiences, including industry, investor, medical and mainstream publications.

“It’s a privilege to focus my career and apply my talents to support companies whose advances in healthcare will create a better world for my children.”

Prior to joining CanaleComm in 2013, Ian served as an assistant vice president and led a San Diego office for New York-based Russo Partners. Earlier in his career, he supported communications in oncology and other disease areas for Pfizer’s La Jolla Research and Development campus. Ian received a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of California, San Diego. Outside of work, he can often be found hiking or visiting theme parks with his wife and three children.

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