Philidor Rx Services

Philidor Rx Services is a Pennsylvania-licensed specialty online pharmacy, which mainly soldValeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc drugs directly to patients and handled insurance claims on the customers' behalf.

BQ6 Media Group LLC is a "privately held marketing firm specializing in pharmaceutical marketing, communications and promotion" based in Philadelphia, PA, with its headquarter in Horsham, PA, a group that did consulting work for Valeant, among other pharmaceutical companies. BQ6 Media, which is located just four kilometres from Philidor’s head office, self-defined as game theorists that combined "creative vision with empirical data and market expertise." On their webpage they offer to help clients in the pharmaceutical industry "ensure your brand is moves ahead" using zero sum game theory concepts. They develop "innovative strategies" to move pharmaceutical products from "pipeline to endgame." Philidor is part of a network of companies, including BQ6 Media Group LLC and Isolani LLC. Philidor RX Services created Isolani LLC. The name Philidor refers to an 18th-century French Chess master Francois-Andre Philidor and the Philidor position, an important chess Chess endgame; isolani refers to an isolated pawn. BQ6 Media is named after the chess shorthand for Bobby Fisher's legendary move against Russian chess master Boris Spassky in 1972. The Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation (SIRF) report alleges that several states list Matthew Davenport, David Wing, John Carne and Gregory Blaszcynski as officers of BQ6 Media and another company, End Game Partnership LLP (chess reference), as assistant treasurer. The SIRF report pointed to another reference to a popular chess move called the King's Gambit Accepted (KGA) that is also the name of Valeant's wholly owned unit — KGA Fulfillment Services Inc., formed in Delaware in November 2014.

Philidor Rx Services was formed in 2013 by Matthew S. Davenport and Andrew (Andy) Davenport as an online pharmacy in Delaware with an office in Horsham, Pennsylvania and in Hatboro, a town of about 7,360 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.