“Take care of your employees.They’ll take care of your business.”

Dave Osborne

Chief Executive Officer

David Osborne is a seasoned business technology leader with more than 20 years’ experience in global sales, operations, transformation planning, execution and M&A. He brings deep experience in operations, strategic growth, and executive management and a proven record of helping organisations successfully integrate, operationalise, and scale their businesses.

As CEO of Virgin Pulse, Dave is responsible for streamlining, optimising, and scaling Virgin Pulse as the company continues its aggressive growth strategy and solidifies its position as the largest workplace wellbeing company in the world.

A former NCAA Division I golfer, Dave has seen and experienced, firsthand, that investing in building healthy habits and skills pays significant dividends in driving performance and long term success, personally and professionally. He is a firm believer in Virgin Pulse’s ability to help organisations drive business outcomes that matter by empowering and supporting employees across all aspects of their personal and professional wellbeing.

Dave joined Virgin Pulse in 2016 following the company’s acquisitions of GCC and ShapeUp. As president and COO, he led the successful integration of the three organisations, laying a solid foundation for Virgin Pulse’s global expansion. In addition to driving operational improvements across the business, Mr. Osborne has been responsible for driving the company’s go-to-market strategy and elevating its corporate profile.

Prior to joining Virgin Pulse, Osborne was the COO at Drillinginfo, which provides data software to the oil and gas industry, where he was instrumental in developing the company’s operating model and product growth strategy. Prior to Drillinginfo, Osborne served as Managing Director of Vista Consulting Group, where he helped Vista portfolio companies develop strategies to drive growth and improve operations while accelerating business outcomes. During his tenure he helped acquire, transform, and integrate over 30 companies.

Dave holds an an MBA from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business and an undergraduate degree in Finance.

Richard Boylan

Chief Operating Officer

Richard Boylan has spent more than 15 years in technology leadership roles. He joined Virgin Pulse as a member of the founding leadership team in 2004. As Virgin Pulse’s Chief Operating Officer, Richard oversees all product and technical development, build, implementation, and operations for all Virgin Pulse’s products.

Richard’s been with the Virgin Group for more than a decade, and he’s worked on a number of Web-centric, technology-focused start-ups for various Virgin businesses. He led IT and Operations for Virgin Cars and Bikes, a UK-based car, truck, and bike retailer, which quickly became the largest online vehicle retailer in Europe. He also developed an operational and technical strategy for a Virgin-branded, pan-European car rental business, and planned and implemented a group-wide telecom and data strategy. Before joining the Virgin Group, Richard served as European Infrastructure and Database Manager for RL Polk.

Richard has an honours degree in business studies and information management from Liverpool University in the UK.

Davis Jackson

Chief Revenue Officer

Davis Jackson brings significant experience in business technologies and services, with over 20 years of success in global sales, client success, and general management. As Virgin Pulse’s CRO, Davis is responsible for leading growth efforts across our global footprint of health and wellbeing solutions and services.

Prior to joining Virgin Pulse, Davis served as CEO and President of FlexTecs (Flexible Technology Solutions), a global provider of innovative technologies and services to help large businesses mine transactional data to reveal profit-driving insights and prevent margin leakage. Prior to FlexTecs, Davis spent 7 years in Management Consulting, focused on customer experience, supply chain, and operational execution. Before consulting, Davis spent more than a decade with Profit Recovery Group (now PRGX Global), most recently as SVP of Sales and Client Development. During Davis’ tenure, the PRGX business grew by more than 10x, executed a successful IPO, acquired and integrated more than 20 businesses, and achieved a majority market share.

As a seasoned “road warrior” for most of his career, physical activity, mindfulness, and nutrition strike a personal chord for Davis. He is a passionate believer that how we engage with those around us, what we eat, how we move, when we sleep, and how we relax has a positive effect on our work, our health, and our relationships.

When not working with the Virgin Pulse team and our clients, Davis loves to run, travel and spend time quality with his wife and daughter in Atlanta, GA. Davis graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in Economics.

Wendy Werve

Chief Marketing Officer

Wendy brings more than 20 years of experience developing, leading and executing growth-focused marketing strategies for a diverse range of technology, B2B and SaaS software companies, from startup to IPO, mid-market to $1 billion+. She joined Virgin Pulse in 2015 as Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for accelerating the company’s growth, expanding Virgin Pulse’s brand awareness, driving demand for the company’s personalized health, wellbeing and engagement solutions, and connecting the touch points with Virgin Pulse customers and users to ensure a consistent and positive experience. She leads overall marketing initiatives and operations, including demand generation, field marketing, corporate communications, brand and product marketing.

Prior to Virgin Pulse, Wendy served as Vice President of Global Marketing at SumTotal Systems, a leading human resources (HR) and talent management software provider, where she was responsible for elevating SumTotal’s brand and scaling the company’s global marketing strategy prior to its acquisition by Skillsoft. She brings extensive experience implementing marketing strategies that have propelled impressive growth for a number of market leading enterprise software companies, including Metastorm (OpenText), Plateau Systems (SuccessFactors/SAP), Appian, and webMethods (Software AG), which today remains one of the most successful software IPOs in NASDAQ history.

Wendy earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.

Ron Hildebrandt

Chief Product Officer

Ron Hildebrandt brings over 13 years’ experience building and marketing SaaS software products that improve employee productivity and well-being. Ron joined Virgin Pulse in 2013. As Chief Product Officer, Ron is responsible for the product strategy and delivery of Virgin Pulse’s enterprise wellbeing solutions, including its SaaS portal, mobile apps, and personal tracking devices.

Ron came to Virgin Pulse from Enkata, a successful, venture-backed Bay Area analytics and performance management company that he co-founded in 2001. There, Ron served as EVP and oversaw all product and customer-facing functions and led Enkata’s rapid growth. Ron has extensive experience bringing innovative products to market and ensuring that they solve mission-critical problems. Ron is passionate about increasing the competitiveness of companies by improving the brainpower and the health of their employees.

Ron has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kim Stephan

General Counsel

As general counsel and corporate secretary, Kim oversees all legal matters at RedBrick Health, including board governance, corporate and commercial transactions, intellectual property, technology licensing and employment law. In addition, she chairs the governance, risk management and compliance committee. Kim is also the executive leader for RedBrick’s consumer support operations. Before joining RedBrick, Kim spent eight years with Capella Education Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, most recently as assistant general counsel and senior director of regulatory affairs. Prior to Capella, Kim was a partner at Graham & Dunn, a law firm in Seattle, Washington.

Kim earned a bachelor of business administration in finance with an accounting emphasis from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Kim lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children, and her personal interests include travel, reading, running, spending time in nature and food-both cooking and consuming!

 

Rajiv Kumar, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer and President of Virgin Pulse Institute

Rajiv Kumar serves as Chief Medical Officer and President of Virgin Pulse Institute, which provides Virgin Pulse clients with cutting-edge Value-on-Investment (VOI) studies and promotes research on health, wellbeing and employee engagement. Dr. Rajiv Kumar’s responsibilities also include overseeing the Virgin Pulse Science Advisory Board and the organisation’s analytics team.

Dr. Kumar joined Virgin Pulse in 2016, following the company’s acquisition of ShapeUp, an employee wellbeing company that he founded in 2006. As CEO of ShapeUp, he led the growth of the company from a two-person, dorm-room startup to a global company with over 100 employees, 800 customers, and 2 million participants around the world. During his time at ShapeUp, he pioneered new approaches to leveraging social connections to enhance employee health and wellbeing and co-authored several peer-reviewed studies on the relationship between social networks and healthy behaviour.

Dr. Kumar earned his medical degree from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has focused his career on prevention, public health, and innovation in health care. He also received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from Brown University.

Todd Laddusaw

Chief Financial Officer

Todd oversees Virgin Pulse financial strategy and operations. Previously, Todd was chief financial officer at Healthland Inc., a leader in delivering health information technology solutions to rural communities, where he led the development of the finance organisation. Prior to Healthland, he served as chief financial officer at MicroEdge LLC, which specialises in scalable platforms for philanthropic organisations. He has also held financial leadership positions at UnitedHealth Group, Thomson Reuters and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Todd earned his master of business administration from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a bachelor of business administration in accounting from the University of Notre Dame. In his free time, Todd enjoys travel, running and spending time with his wife and three kids.