As CEO Kerry Rupp has presided over the expansion of technology accelerator DreamIT Ventures from moving into areas like Austin, Baltimore and Israel to expanding into new areas such as healthcare and minority-led businesses. But Rupp has stepped down, according to a report from Technically Philly.
In an email she told Technically Philly: “I miss my time working with companies on their products going to market. As such, I am turning over the reins to DreamIt Founder Steve Welch. I am going to move over to work on the fund and with our companies in the fund.”
Her LinkedIn page shows that she held the position through October. Although Rupp led DreamIt Philly in 2010 and 2011 she has been based in Austin for awhile. She’ll continue to be an investor in DreamIt companies.
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Castlight Health made a few hires this week. Jennifer W. Chaloemtiarana joined the company as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. She served in similar positions at Levi Strauss where she was a Chief Counsel and at Netflix where she was Associate General Counsel. J.C. Herrera joined human resources as Chief People Officer. He previously worked for Intel’s security software business McAfee where he was the senior vice president of global human resources. It also promoted Nita Sommers to chief strategy officer. In the role she will expand Castlight’s corporate development functions and lead the company’s business development.
The company has been expanding its services beyond healthcare price transparency to add complementary programs that are designed to reduce healthcare costs such as partnerships with telemedicine business Teladoc. It also added a seven more Fortune 500 companies and 159 customers in the third quarter as employers implement new programs to trim their healthcare expenses. Its third qyarter earnings report showed an operating loss of $20.3 million on revenues of $12.2 million.
Aidin added John Laursen to lead the company’s sales and to support their clients’ use of Aidin for safer and better patient transitions. Laursen was previously managing director and a leader of Huron Healthcare, where he led the national sales efforts and supported the implementation of progressive case management at health systems across the country.
