Babylon hires exec to manage international growth and more digital health hires

Babylon introduced Thursday the digital well being agency had employed Andrew Hine as vice chairman of the go-to-market crew for Asia, Europe, the Center East and Africa.

The corporate mentioned he’ll handle Babylon’s contracts and partnerships and work to extend its choices and companies in these areas. Hine joins Babylon from Ernst & Younger, the place he was head of well being for the Center East and North Africa. He’d beforehand labored at KPMG and the NHS, the place he served as an NHS operational supervisor and belief board director.

“I’ve been lucky to work on the frontline of healthcare supply and inside completely different well being methods in numerous international locations. These experiences have supplied me with a profound understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of present healthcare supply fashions all over the world, the issues that have to be addressed and the potential for brand spanking new care fashions, processes and applied sciences to dramatically enhance the standard, accessibility and prices of care,” Hine mentioned in a press release.

Babylon went public in 2021. The corporate reported revenue growth pushed by its value-based care section through the second quarter this 12 months but additionally posted a $157.1 million loss. Final week, Babylon mentioned its shareholders had authorised a reverse share break up geared toward stopping the corporate from being delisted from the New York Inventory Trade. Its shares had been promoting for beneath $1.00 for greater than 30 days.

Healthcare knowledge analytics platform Komodo Health has appointed Lauren Stahl as vice chairman and head of gross sales.

Stahl has labored at Komodo for greater than three years, most lately as vice chairman of healthcare gross sales. They’ve additionally served as head of buyer success at Datavant and had been founder and CEO of Sparkite, which targeted on substance use dysfunction therapy.

“Lauren has demonstrated an distinctive monitor file of deepening buyer relationships and unlocking new market and buyer gross sales channels,” Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan, chief working officer at Komodo Well being, mentioned in a press release. “As Komodo continues to put money into its end-to-end expertise platform, having Lauren on the helm of our gross sales groups will solely additional speed up our efforts to place Komodo’s best-in-class expertise platform and patient-centric insights within the arms of organizations throughout life sciences, payers, authorities entities and extra.”

Woebot Health, maker of a psychological well being chatbot, has named Brad Gescheider its chief industrial officer. 

Most lately, Gescheider served as world head of digital innovation and affected person companies for Sanofi’s immunology enterprise. He is additionally labored at Fixed Remedy Well being, GE Healthcare, McKesson and PatientsLikeMe.

“Brad’s understanding of the dynamics that form at this time’s affected person expertise and his versatile background throughout a spread of healthcare environments might be a significant asset as we glance to make psychological well being instruments and digital therapeutics accessible to anybody who wants them,” Woebot CEO Michael Evers mentioned in a press release. “As we increase and activate our strategic partnerships, Brad brings an excellent mixture of compassion and expertise at this pivotal second in our improvement.”

Woebot has been constructing its management crew this 12 months. It lately employed a chief financial officer and a vice president of regulatory science and strategy.

Residence diagnostics firm Cue Health appointed Suzanne Stone as its chief industrial officer.

The corporate mentioned Stone will lead Cue’s world industrial technique and construct gross sales and buyer success groups. She beforehand labored as senior vice chairman of U.S. income at Dexcom. 

“Suzanne is a well-established industrial chief with intensive healthcare expertise and a formidable monitor file of constructing nice groups,” Ayub Khattak, chairman and CEO of Cue Well being, mentioned in a press release. “We stay up for accelerating our progress in our key buyer classes and strengthening our place as a number one healthcare expertise firm by delivering a seamless and constant model expertise below Suzanne’s succesful management.”

Cue, finest identified for its at-home molecular COVID-19 check, additionally went public in 2021. The corporate plans to increase the variety of exams appropriate with its Cue Reader. Like plenty of other digital health and health tech companies to this point this 12 months, Cue recently announced layoffs.