Headquarters:
75 Fountain St., Providence, RI 02902
Year founded:
2004
Number of employees:
2,000+
Phone:
(401) 537 6300
Email:
press@virginpulse.com
Website:
virginpulse.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/virgin-pulse
“Our people drive our business, and our culture reflects that”
Chris Michalak,
Virgin Pulse
Chris Michalak
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Boyd
Chief Transformation Officer
Richard Boylan
Chief Operating Officer
Leadership
Chris Michalak is responsible for leading the company’s global growth strategy and helping clients unlock the full value of their healthcare investments to drive better health outcomes. Before joining Virgin Pulse in 2021, Michalak served as CEO of Alight Solutions, a $2.3B leader in benefits, payroll and cloud solutions. He brings more than two decades of healthcare, technology and HR industry leadership experience to his role at Virgin Pulse. A firm believer in the correlation between health, wellbeing and successful outcomes, Michalak also serves on the board of directors of GENYOUth, a leading national youth health and wellness non-profit dedicated to creating healthier school communities.
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Michalak
As Chief Transformation Officer, Andrew Boyd oversees strategy, business transformation, corporate development and M&A integration. Prior to this role, he held senior sales, marketing, general management positions and was Chief of Staff and EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development at Virgin Pulse.
He has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the SaaS/software industry.
Chief Transformation Officer
Andrew Boyd
As a member of Virgin Pulse’s founding leadership team, Richard Boylan now leads and oversees the company’s operations, including product and technical development, implementation and general operations. Prior to Virgin Pulse, he worked closely with several Virgin businesses, including Virgin Cars and Bikes, European car rental businesses and telecom/data strategies. He has more than 10 years of experience working with web-centric and tech-focused start-ups for Virgin.
Chief Operating Officer
Richard Boylan
“Our people drive our business, and our culture reflects that”
Chris Michalak, Virgin Pulse
“Our most important strategy has been our focus on changing lives for good, which sits at the heart of everything we do, ensuring we all have a shared mission”
Chris Michalak, Virgin Pulse
Leadership
“Our most important strategy has been our focus on changing lives for good, which sits at the heart of everything we do, ensuring we all have a shared mission”
Chris Michalak, Virgin Pulse
“Our people drive our business, and our culture reflects that”
Chris Michalak, Virgin Pulse
Leadership
Scott J. Charles
Chief Financial Officer
Scott J. Charles has 25+ years of experience and a record of accomplishment across a spectrum of financial operations in public and private environments. He currently serves as CFO.
Prior to HealthComp, Charles served as CFO for Cytel, the largest provider of statistical and software advanced analytics for clinical trial design and execution. He played a lead role in the growth of Cytel globally and successful sale. Before joining Cytel, he served as CFO of Aralez Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded, specialty pharmaceutical company. Prior to Aralez, he served as the Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Ikaria, a critical care pharmaceutical company. Charles also played a lead role in the spin-off of Ikaria’s R&D operations and IPO and the successful sale of its commercial business.
Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Reliant Pharmaceuticals. Previously, at Arthur Andersen, he was a manager in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services practice.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Chief Financial Officer
Scott J. Charles
Laura Walmsley
Chief Commercial Officer
Laura Walmsley leads the company’s commercial go-to-market-strategy with responsibility for all client-facing teams including employers, health plans and systems and international, and marketing. She enthusiastically brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing, account management, product and reporting. She also has experience working with Fortune 500 companies, national and regional health plans and mid-sized employers to identify and deploy game-changing solutions. Walmsley thrives on growth and is passionate about empowering people to be their best, whether they are her internal colleagues or customer and consumer populations.
Chief Commercial Officer
Laura Walmsley
Virgin Pulse is the leading digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company that prides itself on putting its people first. Its commitment to ‘changing lives for good’ extends to its workforce, whose health and happiness are the organisation’s top priority.
“Our people drive our business, and our culture reflects that,” explains CEO Chris Michalak. “As an organisation, we focus on our four core values: we deliver, people matter, one team/one dream, and grow forward.”
Virgin Pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. The company fosters an inclusive culture and works hard to ensure that all employees in its global workforce feel part of the same organisation, helping people do their best at work and home every day.
The HRD Service Provider of 2023 award winner stands out for its world-class engagement, with millions of members returning six times a day on average to its programmes, partners, coaches and resources. The result is lasting behaviour change, thriving businesses and better humans.
“Our most important strategy has been our focus on changing lives for good, which sits at the heart of everything we do, ensuring we all have a shared mission”
Chris Michalak, Virgin Pulse
Erica Morgenstern
Chief Marketing Officer
Di Holman
Chief People Officer
Jeff Yoshimura
EVP Product & Innovation
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Erica Morgenstern is accountable for overall marketing initiatives and operations, including demand generation, field marketing, corporate communications, brand and product marketing. Previously, she served as chief communication officer at Welltok and led communications and investor relations for Epocrates, a medical app company used by half of the physicians in the US. She specializes in guiding companies through the critical start-up to high-growth phase with funding, mergers and acquisitions, and IPO activity. Morgenstern has an invigorating energy and proven track record of executing effective and creative communications to increase awareness and stimulate action.
Chief Marketing Officer
Erica Morgenstern
Di Holman guides all aspects of human resources, including business partnering; talent management; total rewards; internal communications; and diversity, equity, inclusion across all global-wide locations. With more than 25 years of high-performance and cultural expertise, she previously served as managing director of global talent management at Moody’s and chief people officer and chief talent officer at Athenahealth.
Holman prides herself on being with and supporting organizations that recognise culture and people as a competitive advantage to support their customers, accelerate growth and deliver exceptional business results.
Chief People Officer
Di Holman
Jeff Yoshimura is responsible for supporting the success of Virgin Pulse’s business, employees, customers, partners, and users through a competitive and compelling product roadmap.
A respected leader in the product space, he is highly skilled in bringing business leaders, designers, engineers, and customers together to collaboratively build and launch consumer-friendly, enterprise grade software solutions.
Prior to Welltok and Virgin Pulse, Yoshimura’s career and experience spanned across the technology space, including corporate IT and process, IT security, sales engineering, and product management. He holds degrees in Finance and Information Systems from the University of Illinois.
EVP Product & Innovation
Jeff Yoshimura
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
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Kimi Shah
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Virgin Pulse impacts over 100 million people across 190 countries by helping Fortune 500, national health plans and many other organisations. With employee wellbeing experts worldwide, they help their clients build the ultimate employee experience.
The organisation’s leaders shaping and influencing its future growth and prosperity include:
Chris Michalak, CEO: As a growth-orientated, visionary executive, Michalak is responsible for leading the company’s global growth strategy and helping clients unlock the full value of their healthcare investments to drive better health outcomes. A firm believer in the correlation between health, wellbeing, and successful outcomes, he is helping to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and personal for all.
Laura Walmsley, CCO: Walmsley’s focus is to lead the creation of compelling value for Virgin Pulse’s employer clients through its solution set and strategic relationships. She is responsible for all client-facing teams, including employers, health plans and systems, international, and marketing. She thrives on growth and is passionate about empowering people to be their best, whether internal colleagues or customer and consumer populations.
Erica Morgenstern, CMO: Morgenstern is a savvy executive with an invigorating energy and a proven track record of executing effective and creative communications to increase awareness and stimulate action. She is responsible for overall marketing initiatives and operations, including demand generation, corporate communications, and brand and product marketing. She also led the creation of Virgin Pulse’s simple, powerful and engaging branding.
“Our most important strategy has been our focus on changing lives for good, which sits at the heart of everything we do, ensuring we all have a shared mission,” remarks Michalak. “By keeping this at the centre of what we do, we can ensure that we are continually innovating and improving to help our clients ensure their people are getting better health outcomes, higher engagement, building a strong culture and supporting whole-person wellbeing.”
Virgin Pulse’s client-centric focus ensures everything it endeavours to do is in service of customer success. It achieves this by using advanced technology to build the ultimate employee experience that supports clients’ and members’ health, wellbeing, and benefits needs throughout their lifecycle. This includes everything from screening and assessment to condition management and digital therapeutics.
The company values technology and innovation and listens to clients, industry trends, and their data to effectively plan and continue learning.
