National Research Corporation Elevates Leadership Team to Seize Growth Opportunity

LINCOLN, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Research Corporation, dba NRC Health, (NASDAQ:NRC) has announced the following appointments of four newly created executive officer positions:

• Helen Hrdy – Chief Customer Officer
• Jason Hahn – Chief Revenue Officer
• Christophe Louvion – Chief Product Technology Officer
• Andy Monnich – Chief Corporate Development Officer

Helen Hrdy, a leader at NRC Health, has been promoted to the role of Chief Customer Officer significantly expanding her responsibilities. Jason Hahn, Christophe Louvion, and Andy Monnich have joined NRC Health with a track record of success in similar positions at leading healthcare information and technology companies such as Press Ganey, Perceptyx, Episource, PatientPop, and Practicing Excellence.

Chief Executive Officer Michael Hays emphasizes, “This announcement reflects one of several investments to capture expanding market opportunities through serving clients across increasingly interconnected patient, customer, and employee experience markets, which collectively have the potential to double the Company's total addressable market. In fact, we recently won a significant multi-million-dollar contract with Advocate Health, the fifth largest not-for-profit health system in the country. This win underscores the competitive advantage gained through an expanded product portfolio built on a strong foundation of healthcare expertise. With the guidance of our expanded leadership team, NRC Health is focused on fully capitalizing on these opportunities.”

For more than 40 years, NRC Health has led the charge to humanize healthcare and support organizations in their understanding of each unique individual. NRC Health’s commitment to Human Understanding® helps leading healthcare systems get to know each person they serve not as point-in-time insights, but as an ongoing relationship. Guided by its uniquely empathic heritage, NRC Health’s patient-focused approach, unmatched market research, and emphasis on consumer preferences are transforming the healthcare experience, creating strong outcomes for patients and entire healthcare systems. For more information, email [e-mail], or visit www.nrchealth.com.

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