Week In Review:
September 26, 2025
On The Ground
We’re taking a quick break from our usual insights to share that the 6th Edition of Aequitas Partners' Healthcare Executive Compensation Study is officially open! Across 15 functions, Director to C-Suite, Seed stage to post IPO, we’re bringing you all the trends for base, bonus and equity across our healthcare / health-tech ecosystem.
Our Survey is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in digital health - and that is thanks to you. Please take 5 minutes out of your day to share your data (which remains anonymized and aggregated) so that we can continue to bring you this insight year after year.
The intake will stay open until October 31st and will be distributed to participants and partners only at the beginning of December. Don’t miss out!
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On The Move
- Nikhil Buduma joins Ambience Healthcare, a clinical AI company, as Chief Executive Officer (Source)
- Future Family, a fertility financing and insurance platform, appoints Alden Romney as Chief Executive Officer and Founder Claire Tomkins, PhD, as Executive Chair, respectively (Source)
- Dwight Erskine joins Healthmine, a member engagement and rewards platform, as Chief Executive Officer (Source)
- Groups Recover Together, a value-based addiction treatment company, appoints Cooper Zelnick as Chief Executive Officer (Source)
- Ujjwal Singh joins Manas AI, an AI native drug discovery and development company, as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (Source)
- Rula Health, a behavioral health provider, appoints Laura Palmer (Chief Revenue Officer), Andrew Mok (Chief Marketing Officer), and Linda Lee (Chief People Officer) (Source)
- WHOOP, a wearable device company, appoints Johan Liden as Chief Creative Officer and Jason Lynch as Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer (Source)
- Matt Rockhold joins Thynk Health, a cancer screening platform, as Chief Commercial Officer (Source)
On The Hunt
- Qualified Health, a generative AI infrastructure company focused on healthcare, is hiring a VP, Strategic Accounts and General Manager
- Stellar Health, a point-of-care intelligence company, is hiring a Vice President, National Accounts
- Somatus, a value-based kidney care company, is hiring a VP, Corporate Development
- b.well, a data integration and personalization company, is hiring a Vice President, Solution Consulting
If you’d like to see a comprehensive list of mid/senior-level jobs or for your company to be listed in this newsletter, please add your career page to the Health Talent Exchange.
The roles represented here have been shared by the companies themselves via their own career pages and aggregated on the Health Talent Exchange. Given that these organizations are not necessarily Aequitas clients, we cannot vouch for or provide further insight than what has been shared here.
Founded in 2014, Aequitas Partners is the preeminent talent partner for high-growth healthcare companies. With a diverse portfolio of offerings, we work with some of the most exciting companies in the industry, assembling teams tackling the biggest challenges facing healthcare, while supporting Founders, CEOs and Boards in all facets of human capital development.
Over the last decade, Aequitas has brought you insights on a quarterly basis in our Catalyst Newsletter - everything from interviews with groundbreaking healthcare leaders, to windows into who is hiring and who they are looking for, to trends on all things talent-related in digital health. But the industry moves fast, and the pace of change is constant.
Our job is to keep our fingers on the pulse of everything going on in health innovation and how it impacts executive talent - and by extension - company building. In service of that, you’ll get a distillation of our insights every Friday. After all, aequitas means “equity” in Latin and sapientia potentia est (knowledge is power).
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