Seasoned Healthcare Entrepreneur Brings Strong Track Record
in Building Highly Successful Companies
TORONTO, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Diversinet Corp. (TSX
Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leader in secure mobile health, has
appointed Bret W. Jorgensen as
chairman of the board succeeding Albert
Wahbe, who has retired as chairman but remains a member of
the board.
Jorgensen brings over 20 years of experience as a healthcare
entrepreneur and corporate transformation executive to Diversinet.
He has deep leadership experience in rapid-growth,
technology-enabled health services organizations and a proven
record in corporate fundraising, strategy execution and value
creation. Jorgensen was most recently the CEO of MDVIP, a
personalized healthcare company that offers primary and preventive
care services in 40 states. He left the company in early 2010 after
a successful sale to Procter & Gamble. He currently serves as
director of MDVIP.
Previously, as CEO, he restructured InSight Health, a
diagnostic-imaging business with more than 200 service sites.
Earlier in his career, Jorgensen was co-founder and president of
TheraTx Health Services, a large, fast-growing healthcare services
company with 240 sites, 5,000 employees and an innovative
point-of-care HCIT solution, TheraSys. TheraTx was recognized as
the 2nd fastest growing public company by Inc. magazine
and Jorgensen received the "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award in
Healthcare for this effort. He left the company after a successful
sale to Kindred.
Jorgensen also currently serves as chairman of Crossover Health,
an innovative worksite health provider, and a board member of the
Kravis Leadership Institute. He is a strategic advisor to Qualcomm
Life, which offers the 2net platform for mobile health, and Hello
Health, which provides an unique patient engagement platform, and
has served as a director of several other public and private
healthcare companies.
The appointment of Jorgensen follows Diversinet's recent
appointment of Dr. Hon Pak as the
company's CEO. While Jorgensen brings to Diversinet a career-long
record of accomplishment in founding and growing technology enabled
healthcare services companies, Pak is contributing strong hands-on
experience as a clinician and healthcare IT executive. Given their
long service at the forefront of improving the U.S. healthcare
delivery, they will work together to lead Diversinet as it focuses
on patient engagement and care coordination with its innovative
applications of secure mobile technology.
"We are very fortunate to have attracted two deeply experienced
and forward-thinking healthcare professionals," noted Wahbe. "The
healthcare environment is evolving rapidly, with an emphasis on
patient-centered mobile technology, and Bret and Hon bring the
right mix of experiences to drive Diversinet's success."
"This is an exciting time to join Diversinet," Jorgensen said.
"It is clear there is a growing demand for mobile-enabled patient
engagement and care coordination tools and the company's
MobiSecure® technology is well positioned to succeed in
this emerging market. I look forward to working closely and
actively with Dr. Pak and the Board to lead Diversinet."
Mr. Jorgensen has been issued stock options to purchase up to
863,562 common shares of Diversinet Corp. exercisable at
U.S.$0.09 per common share for a
five-year term.
About Diversinet
Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF) provides
patented and proven secure products that enable healthcare
organizations to rapidly deploy HIPAA-compliant mobile healthcare
(mHealth) applications to power care coordination. Learn more about
Diversinet at www.diversinet.com.
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