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Evan Melrose, former founding managing director of Spindletop Capital, was named CEO of Elevage Medical Technologies. https://axios.link/3oMEfZT 

Former Thermo Fisher Scientific/PPD, SVP Dustin Owen was named CEO of American Clinical Research Services, a portfolio company of Latticework Capital Management. https://axios.link/3WFH9w6

David Pyle, former Solis Mammography chief operating officer, was named CEO of Gastro Care Partners. https://axios.link/3WJXLCM

Zach Henderson, former Glooko chief commercial officer, was named CEO of Global Kinetics. https://axios.link/43dxtvq

Virginia Materese, former Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company exec, was named CEO of Aligned Modern Health. https://axios.link/45ANddj 

Jason Prestinario, former Komodo Health GM, was named CEO of Particle Health. https://axios.link/3N2b0M7

Ross Jacobson, former Modern Age GM, was named CEO of an unnamed startup focused on hair restoration by Redesign Health. redesignhealth.com

Larry Nabb, former CEO at Providence Care, was named CEO of Jet Health. https://axios.link/3IQgyH4

Kristin Kaiser Mulligan, former VP of operations at Wheel, was named COO of Heard. joinheard.com

William Porter, former Butterfly Network VP, was named chief commercial officer of Bayesian Health. bayesianhealth.com

Shawn Lemerise, former CipherHealth CSO, was named Neurotrack's first chief growth officer. https://axios.link/3N2wad2 

Rocky Samuel, former DispatchHealth national medical director, was named chief clinical officer of MedArrive. www.medarrive.com

Jen Cressman, former Brightline SVP, was named chief commercial officer of Form. hellobrightline.com

Tawny Hammett, former Ro senior director of business development, was named chief revenue officer of Paloma Health. palomahealth.com

Kevin Czarnecki, former Redox EVP of sales, was named chief sales officer of Atlas Health. https://axios.link/43CIVAz 

Jay Parkinson, former Crossover Health chief designer, was named chief medical officer of Sana. https://axios.link/3MHQq2i

Dave Dookeeram, former president of diagnostics at DispatchHealth, was named chief operating officer of Pager. https://axios.link/3C2eZC0

Ryan VanOverbeke, former Vimly Benefit Solutions chief revenue officer, was named chief commercial officer of XP Health. Former senior adviser Joel Alperstein was also promoted to CFO. https://axios.link/3qdLPNv

Axxes Capital named former GQG Partners executive Gary Bachman as CFO, and former Capital Group exec Kirk Kazanjian as global CMO. https://axios.link/42hQ9c7

HungChing Chan, former Medica chief analytics officer, was named Collective Health's chief analytics officer. https://axios.link/3oNC9Jf

Samir Shah, former Amazon health care exec, was named Walmart's virtual care leader. walmarthealthvirtualcare.com

Kimberly Dreisinger, former HermesPR VP, was named Thyme Care's head of PR. thymecare.com

Julia Ivanova, former SVP of business development at U.S. Renal Care, was named SVP of growth and value-based partnerships at Thyme Care. thymecare.com

Krishna Ramachandran, former BCBS of Illinois SVP, was named SVP of health transformation at Blue Shield of California. https://axios.link/3WPix47

Joe Miles, former Google Cloud managing director, was named industry head, life sciences at UiPath. uipath.com

Mittu Sridhara, formerly Eurowag, was named operating principal of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. https://axios.link/3OPPQ5i 

Natalie Schibell, former Forrester VP and principal analyst, was named VP of product marketing at Zyter | TruCare. zyter.com

Emma Ogburn, former University of Oxford director of operations, was named VP of clinical operations at Lindus Health. https://axios.link/3IOXJDU

Charles DeShazer, former Google director of clinical products, was named Cigna's executive in residence. cigna.com

Molly Chidester, former Stop the Spread COO, was named executive director and deputy director of health care innovation of Morgan Health. jpmorganchase.com

Quazi Mainuddin, former Google Health technical program manager lead, was named director of technical program management, Digital Health Lab at Samsung Research America. sra.samsung.com

Andrew Matzkin, former Verily director of health platforms strategy, was named head of strategy at Paradigm. paradigm.inc

Jeff Chiumiento, former interim chief financial officer for Rocket Software, was named CFO of Rhapsody. https://axios.link/3WJnxqN

Jakob Dupont, former global head of R&D and executive vice president at Atara Biotherapeutics, was named executive partner of Sofinnova Investments. https://axios.link/3N4895j

Attalia Gray, former Onduo-Verily VP, was named VP of sales at Firefly Health. firefly.health

Sonja Jacob, former Meta exec, was named Athenahealth's director of content marketing. athenahealth.com

Idan Eidlman, former investor, was named VP of Kain Capital. https://axios.link/43gARWd

Larry Blacker, former Seabrook Village home care administrator, was named brand president at Boost Home Health Care. https://axios.link/42oiduw

Jess Ayers, former Verily communications lead, was named Big Health's director of strategic communications. bighealth.com

David Floyd, former global president of DePuy Orthopaedics, was named senior adviser to Permira's global health care group. https://axios.link/3qpSfZW 

Pamela Stahl, former Sidekick Health exec, was named president of Avalon Healthcare Solutions. https://axios.link/3INq9hI

Peter Brown, former Thornberry CEO, was named Reverba's president. https://axios.link/43f2crU

Abbi Akstulewicz joined ATF Medical for the newly created position of director of payer partnerships. https://axios.link/45wgQwm

Aaron Green, former VP of cloud solutions at Change Health was named OneMedNet's president. https://axios.link/3qnsNEp 

Kulmeet Singh, former Twistle CEO, joined Health Enterprise Partners as operating partner. https://axios.link/42knYcm 

Matrix Partners named former Amazon Pharmacy exec and PillPack founder TJ Parker general partner, per Bloomberg.

Kristi Ebong, former Define Ventures head of partnerships, was named partner at HealthX Ventures. healthxventures.com

Mark Rosenblum, former Redesign Health managing director, was named partner at Company Ventures. companyventures.co

Sebastian Arango, former King Street Capital Management managing director, was named managing director and head of capital formation at CRG. https://axios.link/43znQXv 

Judy Carpenter, former Riverside Medical Clinic president and COO, was named head of operations at Akido. https://axios.link/3IQD4zE

Puja Ruparel, former Amazon senior manager, was named senior director of customer experience and systems at Alto Pharmacy. alto.com

Real named former NBCUniversal exec Valerie Texin CFO and former Headspace content lead Tarika Khan VP of content. join-real.com

Diverge Health named former Elevance Health VP Vincent Pantone chief medical officer and former Equality Health president Craig Gaites SVP of market operations. https://axios.link/45C4jYl 

Andrea McLean, former Olive AI customer success manager, was named project manager at Providence. providence.org

Neesh Shah, former Olive AI implementation success owner, joined Janus Health as customer success manager. janus-ai.com

Mary McKee, former Turquoise Health senior product manager, was named senior product manager at DoseSpot. dosespot.com

Kamran Imam, former CVS Health product manager, joined Point32Health as senior manager of operations. point32health.org

Michelle Vergona, former Circulo Health practice manager, was named clinical market manager of Main Street Health. mainstreetruralhealth.com

Rebecca Redfield, former Takeda Digital Ventures investment manager, was named associate at .406 Ventures. 406ventures.com

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Cheryl Pegus, Morgan Health Ventures managing director, was appointed to Kindbody's board of directors. https://axios.link/3oFT68E

Miki Kapoor, Verana Health president, was named NextCare's chair of the board of directors. nextcare.com

Kimberly Capone, former FemTec Health chief scientific officer, was named a member of The Goodsprout Company's scientific advisory board. good-sprout.com

Former NHS chief negotiator Blake Dark joined CCX's advisory board. https://axios.link/42glAmX

Healthcare Highways named Public Strategies founder Jack Martin and Adelanto Healthcare Ventures president Carlos Zaffirini to its board of directors. https://axios.link/43g33Zh 

Rippl Care named Cityblock Health founding CEO Iyah Romm and Denali Therapeutics CEO Ryan Watts to its board. https://axios.link/3N2CGk0 

Daniel Evangelakos, former Olive AI group product manager, was named engineering group product manager at Availity. availity.com

🗳️ Elections and appointments

Lluc Diaz, former head of open innovation, was promoted by Novo Nordisk to director of digital innovation. novonordisk.com

Alyssa Dietz, former head of thought leadership, was promoted to VP of clinical strategy at Twill. twill.health

Former medical director Cynthia Horner was promoted to head of general medicine and quality at Amwell. patients.amwell.com

Félix Manuel Chinea, former senior manager, was promoted to director of health equity and inclusion strategy at Doximity. doximity.com

Ajay Mahipal was promoted from director to managing director at HealthQuad. healthquad.in

Former president Duane Elliott Reynolds was promoted to chief health equity officer at Chartis. chartis.com

Caroline Hofmann was promoted from head of emerging business to chief business officer at Thirty Madison. https://axios.link/3qak5ta

Jacques Anderson was promoted from chief of staff to VP at Duos. getduos.com

Corey Lenhoff was promoted from associate to VP at Valtruis. valtruis.com

Former president Matthew McEvoy was promoted to CEO at Togetherall. https://axios.link/42fkbwY

Former VP Amanda Elefante was promoted to SVP of people at HealthVerity. healthverity.com

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June 03, 2023

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