New executives bring more than 40 years
combined experience delivering innovation and enterprise platform
design
Amwell® (NYSE: AMWL), a digital care delivery leader, today
announced the appointments of Vaughn Paunovich to the role of
Executive Vice President, Enterprise Platforms, and Matthew
McAllister to Chief Product Officer. Vaughn will oversee
technological delivery and innovation, including for Converge™,
Amwell’s enterprise grade digital care delivery platform, and
Matthew will join Vaughn’s leadership team with responsibility for
product management and design.
“We are experiencing a time of great transformation for Amwell
and for our industry. Customers today no longer want to buy
features. They want a partner who can assimilate deep knowledge,
experience, and interoperable technology to solve for their current
and future digital aspirations,” said Roy Schoenberg, CEO, Amwell.
“As we complete some of the most strategic aspects of the build-out
of Converge, our digital care delivery platform, we are excited to
have Vaughn and Matthew join our executive team. Both bring
unparalleled experience leading digital transformation initiatives
for some of the world’s leading health and technology companies and
will contribute meaningfully to our rapid innovation, working in
partnership with our customers to deliver the best-in-class,
future-ready experiences they desire.”
Vaughn has extensive experience leading platform design and
product management and has a proven track record directing large
scale transformation efforts for prominent Fortune 500 companies.
He joins Amwell from UnitedHealth Group where he held a variety of
leadership roles, including serving as the senior vice president of
OptumLabs and the chief information officer for both OptumHealth
and OptumCare.
“Healthcare is changing rapidly, and organizations are
struggling amid workforce shortages, financial constraints and
demands for better outcomes,” said Vaughn Paunovich, Executive Vice
President, Enterprise Platforms, Amwell. “I believe in the unique
approach Amwell is taking to empower and enable healthcare’s key
stakeholders with an industry leading, comprehensive digital
infrastructure platform. Amwell is well positioned as a powerful
change agent to define and drive the future of digital
healthcare.”
Matthew comes to Amwell after more than twelve years at Amazon,
where he held various roles leading product, UX design,
engineering, marketing and analytics teams. He brings to Amwell a
background in creating innovative and intuitive software products
and strategic initiatives that have consistently addressed critical
user needs and achieved key business objectives.
“The benefit of digital healthcare offerings extends so far
beyond the convenience of video calls with a clinician. Amwell is
incredibly well-positioned to solve longstanding industry pain
points through the innovative use of technology with our
revolutionary new Converge platform,” said Matthew McAllister,
Chief Product Officer, Amwell. “I am inspired by Amwell’s mission,
and excited to lead this world-class product and design
organization as we continue advancing the experience to ensure all
patients, members and clinicians are able to seamlessly access
high-quality, cost-effective healthcare from anywhere.”
About Amwell Amwell is a leading digital care delivery
platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling
providers, insurers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater
access to more affordable, higher quality care. Amwell believes
that digital care delivery will transform healthcare. The Company
offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all digital
health needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as
chronic care management and healthy living. With over a decade of
experience, Amwell powers digital health solutions for over 2,000
hospitals and 55 health plan partners with over 36,000 employers,
covering over 80 million lives. For more information, please visit
https://business.amwell.com/.
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