Healing Wounds

Pharmaceutical sales is rigorous work, demanding long hours on the road and the skill to negotiate past the gatekeepers to reach busy doctors.

Jonathan Rotella excelled at this and developed an extensive network of contacts selling blockbuster drugs for companies such as Hoffman-La Roche, Sanofi and Schering-Plough in the Bradenton-to-Naples region.

The ambitious 38-year-old who moved to Naples in 2000 quickly made a name for himself among physicians. “Because of those relationships, I learned about wound care,” he says.