DELRAY
BEACH, Fla., Oct. 27,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Melissa
Frieswick, a healthcare industry veteran, has joined
UpHealth Inc. (NYSE: UPH) as chief growth officer, effective
immediately. She reports to UpHealth Chief Executive Officer
Sam Meckey and will be responsible
for overseeing revenue, product and product marketing.
"Melissa has a tremendous track record of driving growth across
the healthcare continuum, working with payers, providers and
enterprise clients to deliver innovative solutions," said Meckey.
"She has repeatedly demonstrated she can successfully build
growth-minded, go-to-market strategies and the teams required to
deliver results. I am confident that Melissa will be successful in
her new role and will help UpHealth as we accelerate the
development of innovative product solutions and expansion into new
markets."
Frieswick brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience
that spans payer, consulting and high growth start-ups. She was
most recently chief revenue officer at Total Brain, a leading
mental health and brain performance self-monitoring and self-care
platform.
"UpHealth is at an exciting inflection point in its history, and
I am honored to be joining the company," said Frieswick. "Its
mission is especially appealing to me: to enable high-quality,
affordable and accessible healthcare for all. I see enormous
potential for UpHealth to accomplish its mission by focusing on
integrated care delivery and the solutions that providers and
populations at scale find easy to work with and meaningful to their
experience."
Before her time at Total Brain, Frieswick served as chief
revenue officer at Maven, a digital healthcare company that earned
top honors on Fast Company's 2020 Most Innovative Health
list and was the first U.S. "unicorn" dedicated to women's and
family health. Melissa was also a member of the executive team that
scaled Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard
Branson's famed Virgin Group.
Frieswick holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics
from Providence College.
About UpHealth
UpHealth is a global digital health company that delivers
digital-first technology, infrastructure, and services to
dramatically improve how healthcare is delivered and managed.
UpHealth's solutions holistically enable clients to deliver on
their affordability, access, quality, outcomes and patient
experience goals. UpHealth's technology platform helps its clients
improve access, coordinate care teams and achieve better patient
outcomes at lower cost, with care management solutions, analytics
and telehealth tools that serve patients wherever they are, in
their native language. Additionally, UpHealth's technology-enabled
virtual care infrastructure and services improves access to quality
primary and acute care, behavioral health and pharmacy services.
UpHealth's clients include health plans, global governments,
healthcare providers and community-based organizations.
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