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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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Student “task app” UniTaskr announces new hires ahead of ambitious plans for expansion

UniTaskr, an innovative app that connects people and businesses with students for paid work opportunities, has today announced the appointment of two new senior developers, Carl Visser and Travis Bradfield, as the company positions itself for continued rapid growth.

Ranked as the #1 Top Free Lifestyle and Business app via the Apple App Store, UniTaskr was originally established in September 2019 by co-founders Joseph Black and Oliver Jacobs to provide a smart and reliable way to help students generate additional income, whilst gaining valuable work experience across different sectors.

Having joined UniTaskr, Carl and Travis will now work on rebuilding the iPhone and Android app on a completely new technology stack. This will enable the onboarding of millions of new users, as well as the implementation of new features, allowing students to search for and complete tasks more efficiently.

Carl boasts an impressive track record, having worked in the London software development industry for 7 years as a full stack developer and systems architect for companies including Nowcasting Economics and Account Technologies, with extensive experience in backend development and cutting-edge technologies.

Travis possesses similarly extensive knowledge, having worked building mobile apps since 2016 across a wide variety of industries. He brings with him his expertise in software solutions and problem solving, with previous roles including Senior Software Engineer at DK.com, and Senior Software Developer at The Stationary Office.

Travis Bradfield, Senior Developer of UniTaskr, commented: “Joining the development team at UniTaskr is an incredible opportunity for me to learn, and to lead the product development process for a proven and validated start-up.”

Carl Visser, Senior Developer of UniTaskr, confirmed: “I have been looking forward to building new technology in a flourishing space, nurtured by the energetic team at UniTaskr.”

Oliver Jacobs, Co-Founder of UniTaskr, said: “We are delighted to have two incredibly talented developers working alongside us in the same room, building and improving the UniTaskr app. They will bring years of experience in app building, and the duo’s different skill sets perfectly complement each other.”

Over the last two years, UniTaskr has accumulated over 190,000 members, 190,000 tasks and an incredible £12 million in opportunities offered in collective income to students during 2021. As a result, the tech start-up has successfully scaled its monthly recurring revenue to 6 figures and has attracted an impressive £1.25m in pledged funding from angel investors.

Headquartered in London with offices in Manchester, UniTaskr now employs a team of 22 individuals and is looking to appoint 5 additional new hires in the coming weeks to further expand their campaign management and community teams.

For more information, please visit: https://unitaskr.com

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Fuse expands senior leadership team to support culture and commercial growth

Fuse, the learning and knowledge platform for enterprise, has today announced the continued expansion of its senior leadership team with two key appointments.

Experienced People Director, Florence Carter, who previously held senior HR roles at technology scaleups, Busuu and Patsnap, joins Fuse as VP of People and assumes responsibility for HR strategy and talent development across the company’s global regions.

Sarah Beech, who joins as Finance Director, has extensive experience in finance management for both blue chip and start-up companies in the telecommunications and retail sectors.

Commenting on the company’s latest senior leadership hires, Fuse CEO, Luke Oubridge, said: “We’re incredibly excited to welcome Florence and Sarah to the Fuse team, at the same time adding to our women in tech leadership roles. Both bring a huge amount of knowledge and industry experience with them, and their combined talent will be key in helping us to further embed our people-centric culture, as well as our readiness for Fuse’s next stage of commercial growth.”

Florence Carter – who assumed her role as VP of People in September this year, commented: “I’m thrilled to be heading up the people function at Fuse – a company that’s leading the way in L&D innovation, and which shares my own passion for enabling people to access learning and continual development. As a remote-first company, building culture and community will be top of my agenda and that’s a challenge I’m very much looking forward to.”

Adding to Carter’s comments, newly appointed Finance Director, Sarah Beech, said: “Fuse is a company at the cutting edge of learning technology. That creates huge potential for growth, and from a finance point of view, a real opportunity to help steer the company’s commercial growth, ensuring that we stay on track to achieving our ambitious growth plans. That’s an exciting opportunity and I’m very pleased to be joining at a pivotal stage in that journey.”

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Create Health closes 2020 with three new team members

Strategic and creative healthcare agency, Create Health, whose creative work includes global and national campaigns for big healthcare brands such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, ConvaTec, BD and HOYA, has ended the year on a high by introducing three new staff members to its growing team. Ben Price joins as commercial account director, Tom Hunt joins as project manager and Matt Sugrim becomes its first in-house animator.

Price brings extensive experience in medical sales and marketing, with his previous role being senior European marketing manager for British multinational medical equipment manufacturer, Smith & Nephew. On his new commercial account director role, Price comments: “I’ve spent a large portion of my career as a client and I’ve joined Create Health as I see them as a talented and growing agency that have huge scope to impact the world of medical device marketing at a particularly challenging and interesting time for the industry.”

Meanwhile, Sugrim joins the Create Health team permanently after freelancing as an animator and CGI generalist for several years. Sugrim says, “I joined Create Health for a chance to work with an experience and dedicated agency deeply embedded in the bio-medical side of the creative world and am keen to work within a team who can guide my work to new heights. I am most excited about helping to develop Create Health’s motion and CGI offering – making some of the creative industry’s most powerful and rapidly developing tools available to our clients.”

Joining from Medical Protection, the UK’s largest medical indemnity provider, is project manager, Tom Hunt, whose role will involve taking projects from initial client ideas to fruition, across the client base. Formerly at Havas and Golley Slater, Hunt comments: “I joined Create having been fascinated by the advancements in new healthcare technology and treatments, and wanted to play a role in transforming these ideas to the people that need them most. Having spent my marketing career learning how best to understand my audience behaviour and mindset, I am looking forward to bringing this to my new role here at Create Health.”

These appointments represent continued success for Create Health as its expansion plan rolls out following the management buy-out in March.

Ed Hudson, managing director, adds: “The Create Health evolution continues – we’ve ended the year with a restructure, changing to a pod system that’s focused around bringing together a dedicated range of specialisms for each client, rather than teams separated by job title. We’ve been able to choose talented, ambitious new team members and we’re particularly excited about having a permanent animator, in Matt, as we’ve produced some powerful, successful animated projects this year and we can only see this area growing.”

 

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Bristol-based healthcare agency, Create Health, celebrates new strategy director and finance lead

Strategic and creative healthcare agency, Create Health, whose creative work includes global and national campaigns for big healthcare brands such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, ConvaTec, BD and HOYA, has added two new staff members to its growing team. Polly Buckland joins as Strategy Director and Ollie Davies joins as Finance Manager.

Polly Buckland brings a wealth of experience to the role, having worked across a wide range of sectors and clients. Previous roles include strategic partner at LIDA/M&C Saatchi.

Buckland comments, “I joined Create because I think the world of Healthcare is fascinating and at a real turning point right now. The way we think about and manage our health is radically changing, and along with that comes changes in the ways we interact with and connect with healthcare professionals. So the need for more creative and innovative solutions to support and engage healthcare professionals and support and guide patients and consumers has never been greater.”

Ollie Davies joins the Create Health team after contracting for various creative companies over the past couple of years throughout Bristol, including the recently acquired McCann Synergy (formerly Synergy Creative). Prior to this he spent a year living in NZ, spending time working as a management accountant for Special Group (Campaign Creative Agency of the year, 2020). In the years leading up to his travels, he worked as assistant FC for a music management and events company, alongside co-running 2 successful club nights over a 7 year period.

Davies added, “I am excited to be part of the Create family; to be involved in a creative healthcare agency producing projects and campaigns that I can be passionate about, knowing that they’re making a difference to people’s lives.”

Ed Hudson, managing director, commented: “We are very pleased to be in a position to grow the team at Create Health. Ollie and Polly both demonstrate a true passion for healthcare communication as well as a solid understanding of this pivotal time within our industry.”

These appointments represent success for Create Health as its expansion plan continues following the management buy-out in March.

To learn more visit: https://createhealth.com/