HMP Communications Holdings

HMP Communications Holdings

Founded in 1985, HMP Communications Holdings operates as a privately held healthcare-media and continuing-education company run by Chairman and CEO Jeff Hennessy. The firm emerged from medical trade publishing and now functions as a marketing-access and clinical-education infrastructure for pharmaceutical, medical-device, and life-sciences companies targeting specialist physicians. It is not a family office but an operating business with an owner-operator structure. HMP produces live and digital events, peer-reviewed journals, and accredited continuing medical education across at least a dozen therapeutic areas, including oncology, psychiatry, cardiology, and wound care. The portfolio spans the Psych Congress, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, and the Great Debates in Solid Tumors series. Revenue is driven by pharmaceutical sponsorship, exhibit fees, and paid attendee registration — a model that turns clinical credibility into a qualified audience for life-sciences brands needing direct physician engagement. The firm competes with publicly traded CMECE conglomerates like WebMD/Medscape, but maintains a narrower, specialist-focused catalogue. The company is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and runs additional offices in East Windsor, New Jersey. HMP also operates a division called HMP Education, the accredited provider arm, and HMP Omnimedia, its digital-media unit. In April 2025, HMP acquired the International Congress on the Future of Neurology, reinforcing its position in high-prescriber specialty markets as conference flywheel economics increasingly concentrate around scale aggregators. HMP's structural differentiator sits at the intersection of clinical education and commercial promotion — it is neither a pure publisher nor a standalone events firm, but a hybrid that monetizes the same credentialed audience across multiple paid touchpoints without a hard separation between its editorial and commercial functions, a posture that is unusually direct in the regulated medical-education sector.