Last week, Sean Duffy, Co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, made the announcement that he will be transitioning out of the CEO seat and passing the baton to Wei-Li Shao, Omada’s current President. Sean wrote a heart-felt, and important, letter sharing the news, and we can’t help but reflect right alongside him on all that has transpired in those fifteen years. How nascent digital health was back then, how many twists and turns happened on a macro level, not to mention the countless stories that will never be told about what it took to build up a company that has become a household name.

From our perspective, it made us reflect on how difficult it must have been to make that decision, yet how very lucky to be able to do so. While few will know all the ins-and-outs, there are not many CEOs (in all of innovation, let alone digital health) who get to take a company from founding to IPO. Fewer still get a say in when they might transition to an Executive Chair role. And even fewer get to leave a trail of positivity and impact behind them - just look at the comments on Sean’s LinkedIn announcement.

These decisions are never easy. Sometimes they’re made under duress. Sometimes they’re made when a CEO is given an impossible goal that can’t be reached. Sometimes they’re natural progressions of a company. And sometimes, it’s just the right time. What we hope for every founder, entrepreneur, and CEO, is that this decision is made with careful consideration, conversations, respect for what was built, and excitement for what is to come.

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• Sue Schick joins TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, a condition management company, as Chief Executive Officer (Source)
• Kevin Plosser joins Duo Health, a value-based care provider for kidney patients, as Chief Financial Officer (Source)
• Zack Mulligan joins Avalon Healthcare Solutions, a diagnostics intelligence company, as Chief Financial Officer (Source)
• Stephen Unger joins Subtle Medical, a medical imaging software company, as Chief Financial Officer (Source)
• Jay Saccaro joins Zoetis, an animal health company, as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer (Source)
• Medidata, a digital solutions company to support clinical trials, appoints Lisa Moneymaker as Chief Operating Officer and Ian Marks as Chief Commercial Officer (Source)
• Tom Visotsky joins ChronicCareIQ, a care management software company, as Chief Revenue Officer (Source)
• Greg de Haaff joins Form Health, a virtual obesity medicine clinic, as Chief Product Officer (Source)
• Jessica Deckinger joins HealthEdge, a health plan technology company, as Chief Marketing Officer (Source)
• Carter Smith joins Gradient Health, a multimodal medical data company, as Chief Data Officer (Source)
• Function Health, a preventive healthcare and longevity platform, appoints Dan Borkowski as Chief Information Security Officer (Source)
• Raju Siva joins Medusind, a national revenue cycle management and healthcare technology company, as Chief AI Officer (Source)
• Lia Gass Rodriguez, MD joins Oscar Health, a health insurance plans and services company, as Chief Health Officer (Source)

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• Somatus, a value-based kidney care company, is hiring an SVP, People, an SVP, Financial Planning, a VP, Corporate Development, a VP, Clinical Performance, and a VP of Business Development – Health Plans
• GRAIL, a multi-cancer early detection company, is hiring a VP, People
• Waltz Health, an AI-powered prescription affordability platform company, is hiring a VP, Marketing & Communications
• Photon Health, a pharmacy technology infrastructure company, is hiring a Head of Marketing

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