Executive Leadership Team Expanded to Support Accelerating Growth of Ieso Digital Health

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ieso Digital Health (http://us.iesohealth.com), a leading digital behavioral health company, today announced the appointment of Gidget Madix and Craig Gravina to the firm's executive leadership team.

In her role as Chief Growth Officer, Gidget Madix will be responsible for raising awareness of Ieso's significant value proposition in the healthcare market and further accelerating its revenue growth and strategic relationships across the US. Madix brings a record of outstanding business development results in managed care environments, and has demonstrated acumen in developing, growing and leading health management enterprises through rapid growth and profitability throughout her 30-year career. Her track record includes the leadership and delivery of distinctive sales growth in some of the United States' largest and most well-known behavioral healthcare organizations including Magellan Health, MHN/HealthNet, Cigna, ValueOptions (now Beacon) and Bensinger, DuPont & Associates.

Ieso is also pleased to announce the appointment of Craig Gravina as Chief Technology Officer. Gravina has over 20 years' experience developing highly innovative and disruptive products, platforms, and technologies within the healthcare, clinical trials, and digital media industries. He has successfully built and sold several technology startups, and led large-scale product development efforts for a number of leading healthcare software vendors.  His deep product and technology expertise spans such areas as healthcare analytics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and consumer-facing digital health technologies. Prior to joining Ieso Digital Health, Craig served as the CTO of Cogstate, a leading software and services vendor focused on cognitive assessment within clinical trials. Previously, Craig oversaw healthcare strategy for Nuance Communications and an NLP based product portfolio representing $1B in revenue for the company.   Prior to that he led all healthcare analytics product development activities for Allscripts, a leading EHR vendor.

"Ieso is entering an exciting, rapid scale-up phase as a result of the strong value proposition we offer to our clients, the outstanding results we achieve and the improved access and high quality service we deliver to the patients we are privileged to serve," said Ieso CEO Dan Clark. "As we grow, it's important that Ieso continues to deliver state of the art solutions that reflect the voice of our customers and patients while also building on, and improving, the distinctive results and consumer experience we deliver. To that end, the appointment of Craig and Gidget are examples of our ongoing commitment to invest in worldclass leaders to lead important domains of our business."

Craig will be responsible for the development and implementation of Ieso's unique advanced technology roadmap, ensuring the firm's industry-leading position in digital health. He will be working closely with the R&D team led by Dr. Andy Blackwell and Dr. Valentin Tablan. The team is charged with delivering an advanced interface and delivery platform while also furthering the development of Ieso's Artificial Intelligence-augmented clinical support agenda.

"Gidget has an outstanding industry reputation for accelerating growth, based in no small part on her deep understanding of customers needs and developing strong strategic relationships for more than 30 years," Clark said. "She has an unparalleled ability to listen to the voice of the customer and will ensure that Ieso's solutions and products continue to evolve and offer unique value, features and functionality. The two appointments will accelerate Ieso's strategic vision of transforming the delivery of mental health in USA for both payers and providers through online, evidenced-based psychological interventions."

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About Ieso Digital Health

Ieso Digital Health provides one-to-one therapy in real time. Patients meet with an accredited therapist in an online, secure virtual therapy room, at a time and location that is convenient to them. The use of technology and written conversation improves patient choice and offers widespread access to effective, evidence-based therapy. Ieso treats patients dealing with depression and anxiety disorders.

Ieso is currently doing business in the US with launch partner Beacon Health Options. The firm's U.S. rollout began in Colorado in 2016.

For more on Ieso Digital Health's executive team, visit http://us.iesohealth.com/about-us/team/ 

For More Information Contact:
Erich Kirshner, Evolution Communications Agency
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303.921.6733

SOURCE Ieso Digital Health