Announces Appointments of Kevin
Freeman as Chief Growth Officer, Tarah Neujahr Bryan as Chief Marketing Officer,
and Dave Ross as Chief Technology
Officer
SALT
LAKE CITY, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health
Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading
provider of data and analytics technology and services to
healthcare organizations, today announced three new leadership
assignments in support of its strategic focus areas moving forward.
These strategic focus areas center around strengthening and
deepening existing client relationships to enable greater success
in realizing massive, measurable, data-informed
improvement while continuing to add
new client relationships.
This strategic focus includes the appointment of the company's
current Chief Revenue Officer, Kevin
Freeman, as Chief Growth Officer, and current Chief Brand
and Communications Officer, Tarah Neujahr
Bryan, as Chief Marketing Officer, effective September 7, 2022. In these roles, Kevin and
Tarah will be responsible for the strategic growth functions at
Health Catalyst, with a primary focus on expanding existing client
relationships, and Kevin and Tarah will each report directly to
Chief Executive Officer Dan
Burton.
Kevin Freeman came to Health
Catalyst in 2020 as part of the Vitalware acquisition, bringing 20+
years of healthcare IT growth leadership experience including
publicly traded, private equity, and venture-capital-backed
companies. He has a successful track record of building
results-driven teams, strengthening client partnerships, and
driving business development growth. Kevin has a Bachelor of Arts
in Sociology from the University of Texas at
Arlington.
Tarah Neujahr Bryan joined Health
Catalyst in 2013 and has served as Editorial Director, Senior Vice
President of Marketing, and Chief Brand and Communications Officer.
She brings a breadth of marketing and communications experience to
her current role. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Tarah served as
the Marketing Communications Director and the Foundation Executive
Director at a community hospital, managed at an advertising agency,
was the Editor and Operations Manager at an archaeology firm, and
provided triage assistance and patient admissions at a Level-II
Trauma Center. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass
Communications from the University of
Nebraska and a Bachelor of Arts from Montana State University-Billings.
Health Catalyst has also named Dave
Ross, current Associate Chief Technology Officer, as Chief
Technology Officer, also effective September
7, 2022. He will play a critical technology leadership role
in building and enabling a world-class data and analytics
infrastructure to support clients' efforts towards massive
improvement in critical use-case areas such as tech-enabled
outsourcing, financial empowerment, population health, and clinical
improvement.
Dave Ross joined Health Catalyst
in 2021 as part of the Twistle acquisition, and was previously the
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Twistle, leading all
product development and engineering activities for over ten years
prior to Twistle being acquired by Health Catalyst. Before starting
Twistle, Dave was the Director of Information Systems at Albany
Medical Center in New York. He has
built and led software development initiatives across healthcare
and educational technology sectors and is passionate about finding
the perfect intersection between engineering excellence and
delivering business value. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in
Information Systems from SUNY Empire State
College.
"This is a pivotal time for Health Catalyst as we work toward
enabling the positive transformation of care for every patient
served by our healthcare clients," said Chief Executive Officer
Dan Burton. "I am grateful for each
of these three world-class leaders moving into key positions,
providing them with an increased opportunity to deliver on our
long-term growth and vision to sustain our critical mission of
being a catalyst, in deep partnership with our clients, to enable
massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement."
Related to the new growth leadership assignments, effective
September 30, 2022, Patrick Nelli will transition from his role as
President to that of Senior Advisor, where he will primarily focus
on enabling a smooth transition of his prior responsibilities as
President to Kevin Freeman, Chief
Growth Officer, and to Dan Burton,
Chief Executive Officer. Patrick joined Health Catalyst in 2013 and
has played various roles contributing to the company's success,
including as Chief Financial Officer from 2017 to January 2021, and as President from January 2021 to the present. Also, effective
September 30, 2022, Bryan Hinton will complete his tenure at Health
Catalyst. Bryan has contributed to Health Catalyst's growth and
success in a number of roles since he joined the company in 2012,
including most recently in the role of Chief Technology
Officer.
Dan Burton shared, "I want to
extend my heartfelt gratitude to Patrick and to Bryan for their
many years of service and dedication to our mission, and for their
incredible expertise and leadership in various roles over the
years. They have deeply contributed to our company's mission,
growth, and success. We are truly grateful to these outstanding
colleagues, and we wish them continued success in their future
endeavors."
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics
technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to
being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed
healthcare improvement. Its clients leverage the cloud-based data
platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records
and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics
software and professional services expertise to make data-informed
decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and
operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in
which all healthcare decisions are data informed.
Media Contact:
Tarah Neujahr
Bryan, Chief Marketing Officer
media@healthcatalyst.com
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