ShareCare / Healthways - Chief Digital Officer, Senior VP
SHARECARE / HEALTHWAYS
Nashville, TN
July 2014-Jan 2016
ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY:
Healthways, our business is improving well-being. Understanding needs of customer populations. Engaging individuals in sustained behavior change that helps them live longer, happier, more productive lives. Healthways was acquired by Sharecare in July of 2016.
ROLE SUMMARY:
Directed by the CEO to create sustainable digital health business model focusing on population health. Tasked to transform application development, customer experience and user interface for mobile health. Brought to market within six months the world's first mobile-only native digital health agent "Compass." Compass is the first agent from the Existence platform of breakthrough consumer wellness agents combining low friction data collection and feedback loops including device, wearables, and other peers. Patent Pending United State Patent 545,889- System and Methods for Generating Insight, Predicting Behavior and Encouraging Presence for Individuals and Groups through Personal Data Aggregation. Intellectual property reviewed by ShareCare Sept 2015 it’s CEO Jeff Arnold, and later acquired by ShareCare July 2016.
HIGHLIGHTS:
User experience / User interface advancements using contemplative technology.
In-depth understanding of health venture capital.
CHALLENGES:
Activist Shareholders.
Internal competing priorities.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Marketing Leadership:
Keynotes at multiple international and industry events, including South by Southwest keynote.
Coverage in Venturebeat for the Product offering.
Sales Leadership:
Lead business development effort for the state of Hawaii.
Digital health marketplace definition and analysis.
Executive Leadership:
Assisted CEO for corporate M&A.
Analysis of current book of business and product offerings of Healthways products, evaluation on technical merit and consumer adoption.
Technical Leadership:
Lead internal effort to refresh population health platform.
Created, defined and brought to market mobile architecture for the digital population wellness platform.
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