AirStrip Adds Three to Leadership Team

Former GE Healthcare, McKesson, McKinsey executives will focus on business development, sales operations, strategic growth planning with mHealth innovator

AirStrip Technologies, Inc. has announced the expansion of its leadership team, adding Lori Jones as Chief Commercialization Officer. (Photo: Business Wire)

AirStrip Technologies, Inc. has announced the expansion of its leadership team, adding Lori Jones as Chief Commercialization Officer. (Photo: Business Wire)

SAN ANTONIO--()--AirStrip Technologies, Inc. has announced the expansion of its leadership team, adding three senior executives to its sales and business development units. The new executives include:

  • Lori Jones; Chief Commercialization Officer - Jones comes to AirStrip with more than two decades of operating and revenue-generating roles with Fortune 100 companies, startups and a large consulting firm. Most recently, Lori spent more than 13 years at McKesson Provider Technologies focused on new business growth, implemented organizational change and operationalized the customer experience. Jones was also a former Vice President of Business Development in the Healthcare Provider Practice with Deloitte Consulting.
  • Matthew Patterson, MD; Senior Vice President, Business Transformation – Dr. Patterson has built his career around the goal of delivering better quality care to more people at a lower cost. He joins AirStrip’s La Jolla, CA office from McKinsey & Company, where he was a core leader in the North American Healthcare practice’s strategy and operations engagements. He focused on clinical and business model transformations of major U.S. health systems transitioning from ‘pay for volume’ to ‘pay for value’ environments. Dr. Patterson also brings a wealth of clinical and operational leadership from his experience as a former U.S. Navy physician, where he served as the Medical Director of the Naval Special Warfare Center in San Diego, CA - the elite training command of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
  • Rudy Watkins; Senior Vice President, Business Development – Watkins joins AirStrip with more than 30 years of healthcare industry experience. Most recently, Watkins spent two years leading the Patient Care Solutions IT Sales and Marketing division for GE Healthcare. Before that, Watkins held leadership roles in HIT partnerships, professional services, operations and commercial management and a background in service, implementation, sales, contracting and IT expertise.

AirStrip Technologies CEO Alan Portela noted all three bring invaluable professional experience at a time when the mobile patient care company is entering an aggressive growth phase.

“AirStrip is greatly expanding its mHealth platform to incorporate EHR mobilization and home health monitoring, as well as our initial advances into the international marketplace,” Portela said. “Lori, Matt and Rudy are among the very best in their respective fields and will play a vital role in supporting AirStrip’s growth and development.”

About AirStrip Technologies, Inc.

Addressing the most pressing needs of a rapidly evolving global healthcare system, AirStrip develops mobile technology that can drive enhanced clinician engagement, strengthened care coordination and improved clinical and financial performance. By unlocking, transforming and mobilizing live and historical patient information from existing monitoring devices and EHR systems to access on mobile devices, AirStrip helps transcend the geographic and technological barriers that delay informed clinician action. The AirStrip platform supports an enterprise-wide solution with live and predictive analytics and unprecedented opportunities to improve the health of individuals and populations. Visit www.airstriptech.com for more information.

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Contacts

AirStrip Technologies, Inc.
Chris Lato, 608.219.7231
chrislato@airstriptech.com

Release Summary

mHealth innovator AirStrip Technologies, Inc. has announced the expansion of its leadership team, adding three senior executives to its sales and business development units.

Contacts

AirStrip Technologies, Inc.
Chris Lato, 608.219.7231
chrislato@airstriptech.com