CredSimple Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Chief Commercial Officer

NEW YORK, March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CredSimple, the leading comprehensive provider network solutions company, today announced the addition of Eric Zerneke as Chief Commercial Officer. In his new role, Zerneke will be responsible for driving commercial strategy, including spearheading all sales, business development, and marketing. The news of Zerneke's appointment comes on the heels of the company's acquisition of Glenridge Health earlier this year, and signals the company's commitment to execute its broader strategy and fulfill its vision to drive a more vertically integrated and streamlined solution for healthcare organizations.

With more than 25 years of healthcare and technology experience, Zerneke is a proven leader of high performing technology teams focused on driving significant revenue growth, creating new market strategies and differentiated offerings. Zerneke has brought various services and new market strategies from concept to reality and has been a catalyst in helping transform businesses.

"I am honored to be a part of this strategic growth initiative," said Zerneke. "I look forward to working with the incredibly talented team and evolving CredSimple's market-leading credentialing product, offerings, and Glenridge Health's network development services to continue to supply payers and providers with the solutions they need."

Zerneke has spent the last 15 years focused on healthcare. Most recently, he served as Chief Commercial Officer for HealthFortis Associates, where he was responsible for driving the company's strategic vision and overall business growth across business development, marketing, and sales. Before that, he was Executive Director and Director at Athenahealth, and was most recently responsible for growing the health plan business 300% YoY while expanding sales into new territories including payer-owned technology companies and medical groups.

"Commercial strategy and product development is central to our ability to support digital transformation for healthcare organizations, payers and providers alike," said Mike Simmons, CEO of CredSimple. "Not only does Eric have an extensive background in both healthcare and technology, his experience at early-stage, rapid-growth companies will be invaluable to CredSimple and its customers as we continue to scale."

CredSimple and Glenridge Health together comprise the industry's first singular, comprehensive provider network solutions company. CredSimple's cloud-based proprietary credentialing technology, coupled with Glenridge Health's experience building and managing provider networks, seamlessly integrates to create an end-to-end solution that builds, runs, and optimizes provider networks for healthcare organizations of any size. Their provider network management solutions control costs, improve outcomes, and ensure compliance.

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About CredSimple and Glenridge Health
CredSimple is a cloud-based healthcare credential verification organization that serves health plans, independent physician associations, telehealth companies, and healthcare organizations that manage provider networks. Its Credential Verification Cloud (CVC) platform enables healthcare organizations to address, manage and monitor their compliance needs around credentialing. CredSimple was founded in 2013, is headquartered in New York and a portfolio company of Questa Capital, Windham Venture Partners, and Primary Ventures. For more information visit www.credsimple.com

Glenridge Healthcare Solutions (www.glenridgehealth.com) was founded over twenty years ago, and has become the leading, national provider of Provider Network Management — building new networks, enhancing existing networks and developing new programs to optimize network performance and provider engagement. The Glenridge team has established successful networks for all health plan products including commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Duals (MMP), LTSS/HCBS as well as specialty networks including dental, behavioral, and workers compensation. In early 2020, Glenridge Health was acquired by CredSimple, and together they form the industry's first end-to-end provider network management solution.

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