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mPulse Mobile Appoints Jay Brookes as Chief Sales Officer and Brendan McClure as Chief Marketing Officer

mPulse Mobile, a digital health company offering conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, announced the appointments of Jay Brookes to Chief Sales Officer and Brendan McClure to Chief Marketing Officer. The expansion of the company’s C-suite increases the healthcare technology expertise among its leadership team.

“Healthcare organizations need innovative solutions to meet the needs of modern consumers and drive cost efficiencies,” stated Bob Farrell, CEO. “The combined skills and expertise that Jay and Brendan both bring to our company are invaluable assets for building awareness of mPulse’s unique capabilities that organizations and members are demanding today. I’m thrilled they will continue to lead our sales and marketing teams in strengthening our partnerships with leading healthcare organizations to build out impactful, enterprise-wide digital engagement programs.”

With over 25 years of experience in healthcare and technology leadership roles, Jay Brookes brings a track record of building successful sales teams and creating valuable partnerships with leading healthcare organizations that drive broad organizational value. His experience includes 17 years of working with national health plans Aetna Inc. and Amerigroup Corp. and 10 years driving healthcare technology sales.

Brookes previously served mPulse Mobile as VP of Commercial Sales, and prior to that was the company’s National Director of Healthcare Solutions, where he focused on driving sales growth of mPulse’s engagement platform through multiple healthcare verticals, national and regional payers, Medicaid and Medicare health plans, along with providers and hospitals.
Brendan McClure, CMO, has over 20 years of healthcare experience for Fortune 500, growth-stage, and startup healthcare organizations. Over the course of his career, he has focused on commercializing innovative healthcare technologies, driving scalable business growth, and delivering thought leadership across many areas of digital health. His experience includes seven years of international experience at Johnson & Johnson, among other international and U.S. marketing roles.

During his seven years at mPulse Mobile, McClure has focused on developing high performing marketing teams, developing Go-to-Market strategies to introduce new products and technologies, creating and promoting new market categories, and building out robust outcome libraries for mPulse’s health engagement solutions.

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Small Cell Forum appoints Simon Fletcher as Chief Strategy Officer to drive its support for neutral hosts, private network operators and Open RAN architectures

10th February 2022, London, UK – Small Cell Forum (SCF) today announced it has appointed wireless veteran Simon Fletcher as its Chief Strategy Officer, drawing on 25 years direct industry experience and work as an advisor to governments, regulators and big business.

SCF CEO Sue Monahan said: ‘We’re delighted to have someone with Simon’s knowledge and contacts in the CSO role. Simon’s brief is to continue to build and strengthen SCF’s technical and regulatory support for the growing ecosystem of service providers that includes neutral hosts, private network operators, and systems integrators. Our strategy is founded on trusted, collaborative partnerships with MNOs, enterprises and policy makers. Simon has strong, long-term relationships with these stakeholders.’

Simon brings a broad range of global wireless experience, from launching 3G trial networks at NEC, work on the evolution of (e)CPRI, 3GPP RAN1/2 small cell and macro architectures, telco equipment development in joint ventures, to commercial rollouts including smart cities, stadiums, commercial property, transport hubs and IoT. In addition to sitting on the UK5G Advisory Board, he continues as a Small Cell SIG Champion at Cambridge Wireless and CTO of wireless experts Real Wireless.

Simon Fletcher said: ‘SCF is one of the industry’s most respected SDOs and I’m delighted to join the organisation as it helps drive and shape an important phase in the evolution of service models and architectures plotting a path through 5G-Advanced and 6G.

Agile, low-cost mobile infrastructure enabled by open architectures and diversified supply chains is key to the digital transformation of industry and enterprise. Small cells are an essential enabler for the new business models and ecosystems underpinning sustainable change. I believe SCF is uniquely placed to help policy-makers, service providers and equipment vendors maximise the potential and overcome the hurdles associated with this critical inflection point for our industry.’

Small Cell Forum Chair Prabhakar Chitrapu, added, ‘Simon’s experience will be invaluable in helping us further develop our strong technical and commercial base, to help guide the wider small cell ecosystem through an evolving wireless landscape.’

Major SCF work streams for 2022 include:

  • Scalable commercial models for neutral host private network deployments are critical to achieving 5G and industry goals. SCF is focused on establishing global best practice and blueprints that bring confidence to enterprise and inform policy and regulation.
  • Building on FAPI, nFAPI and Open fronthaul workstreams to provide practical options for Open RAN with a strong focus on the environments in which Open RAN deployments will succeed first.
  • Detailed specification at product and component impact level to make Open RAN and private wireless readily deployable, reducing cost and risk.