Heidi Creighton

Heidi Creighton is an award-winning communications executive and former reporter at MediaNews Group, hailing from world-leading corporate, agency, and startup environments. 

Creighton began her career in communications as the Director of Public Relations for an advertising agency northwest of Boston, where she was responsible for building and maintaining the agency's PR clientele. Creighton then moved on to the Top 10 PR agency, Creamer Dickson Basford (absorbed by Havas PR), where she helped open and build the Boston Technology Office. Creighton went on to work as Director of Public Relations for IDG corporate, the world's #1 tech media company.

As tech and healthcare began to converge, she founded Creighton HealthTech to provide biotech and digital health startups with comprehensive, scalable and cost-effective communications services, including public relations strategy, media relations, social media marketing, brand building, startup and product launches, messaging and positioning, speakers bureaus, media training, and executive thought leadership campaigns.

Creighton helps startups rise above the noise level and establish themselves as market leaders. A hallmark of her success for clients is a remarkable ability to position CEOs as industry thought leaders and secure high-level media opportunities that put them in the national spotlight. In 2016 she was instrumental in launching and promoting the annual Powering Precision Health Summit, a leading forum and national platform for advancing the science of precision medicine.

In 2017, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed Creighton to serve on the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professions, which licenses candidates and administers and enforces regulations related to the education guidelines for licensing. 

She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work in the field of public and media relations, including the ACE™ Award from Top 10 PR agency Creamer Dickson Basford, and the Superior Achievement in Television Media Relations Award from North American Precis Syndicate. 

Creighton has served on several boards and steering committees including the Foundation for the Innovation and Development of Health Safety and the MassBio Digital Health Steering Committee. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Southern Maine where she served as Advisor for the English Students Association.

Her causes include advancing cancer research and education. She supports Blood Cancer United and the Pan-Mass Challenge, and served on the board of directors for the Harvard Schools Trust.