Digital weight-loss business Noom revealed the visit of Geoff Cook as its brand-new president and member of its board of directors.
Saeju Jeong, Noom’s cofounder and the business’s previous CEO of 16 years, is stepping down however will continue as executive chairman of the board.
Prepare cofounded and acted as CEO of social networking services business The Meet Group, where he took the firm public prior to it was gotten by eHarmony’s moms and dad business Parship Group He likewise acts as a trustee of The Franklin Institute, a science museum and science education and proving ground in Philadelphia.
” Having actually invested the last 18 years driving development to promote social connection and wellness, I’m enjoyed bring that spirit of transformative development to extra health and health measurements. I think Noom can construct on its strong and engaging structure to reach everybody all over on their wellness journey and deepen the continual, favorable effect we have on the lives of our consumers. I’m eagerly anticipating partnering with Noom’s cofounders, board and gifted group to produce the next chapter of Noom’s development,” Cook stated in a declaration.
In 2015, Noom settled a claim that declared it had actually deceived users into registering for memberships that were tough to cancel. In October, Bloomberg reported that Noom had actually started looking for a brand-new CEO to change Jeong.
In January, the business verified with MobiHealthNews that it had actually performed another round of layoffs due to “hard financial headwinds.” The labor force decrease marked the 3rd round of layoffs at the New York-based business in less than a year.
Value-based care start-up Vytalize Health revealed the addition of Dave Wichmann and Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips to its board of directors.
Wichman is the cofounder of personal equity fund Jory Capital and previously acted as CEO of UnitedHealth Group.
Compton-Phillips is president and chief scientific officer of Indiana-based health care business Press Ganey and formerly acted as president of scientific operations at Providence Health. She likewise rests on the Health care Info and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) board, which gotten MobiHealthNews in 2015.
” For me, this has to do with discovering ingenious care designs that can repair our health care system. New tools and innovations used in seclusion aren’t enough to resolve the market’s complex obstacles. We likewise require to concentrate on the human side of care and assistance doctors construct more powerful relationships with clients. Vytalize Health’s platform will allow the shift to whole-person, preventative care to attain much better results. I anticipate dealing with the group to move value-based care forward,” Compton-Phillips stated in a declaration.
Previously this year, Vytalize scored a massive $ 100 million in financing, less than a year after it amassed $ 50 million in a Series B round