Our Story

A brilliant idea

Health Union was started in 2010 by two pharmaceutical industry colleagues and friends, who understood the untapped potential to leverage technology in ways that would enable people living with chronic conditions to learn, connect and share in meaningful and impactful ways.
Building relationships
With this vision, co-founders Tim Armand and Olivier Chateau resigned from GlaxoSmithKline and embarked on a journey to create a scalable, reproducible, online health community model that would have a mutually beneficial impact on patients, caregivers and healthcare industry partners.

Building relationships
Growing influence

Today, with office space in Center City, Philadelphia, we have realized the vision — over 250 full-time employees, a growing portfolio of condition-specific online health communities, and over 100,000 patient leaders to become the leader in social health — impacting millions of people and helping them live better.

A brilliant idea
Health Union was started in 2010 by two pharmaceutical industry colleagues and friends, who understood the untapped potential to leverage technology in ways that would enable people living with chronic conditions to learn, connect and share in meaningful and impactful ways.
Building relationships
With this vision, co-founders Tim and Olivier resigned from GlaxoSmithKline and embarked on a journey to create a scalable, reproducible, online health community model that would have a mutually beneficial impact on patients, caregivers and healthcare industry partners.
Growing influence
Today, with office space in Center City, Philadelphia, we have realized the vision — over 250 full-time employees, a growing portfolio of condition-specific online health communities, and over 100,000 patient leaders to become the leader in social health — impacting millions of people and helping them live better.

Meet Our Leadership

Olivier
Chateau

Co-Founder and CEO

Lauren Lawhon

President and Chief
Operating Officer

Amrita
Bhowmick, Ed.D.

Chief Strategy Officer

Tim Finley

Chief Financial Officer

J. Blake Harris

Chief eXperience Officer

Will Rompala

Chief Technology Officer

Scott Schappell

Chief Revenue Officer

David Shronk

Chief Commercial
Officer

Steve Warker

Executive Vice President, Product

Jake Ridgway

Senior Vice
President, People

Sara Hayes

Senior Vice President, Community Development

Tim Armand

Co-Founder and Board Member

Jack Barrette

Innovation Advisor

Our Culture and Values

People are the most important ingredient to our success. Our people-first obsession starts with “meeting people where they are” in our communities, in our company, and with our partners. We have learned that only good things come from doing the right thing. By leveraging our employee-driven culture and core values of community, inclusion, transparency and excellence, we keep everyone enthusiastic and accountable for their contributions.

We are always looking for talented people to join our growing family!

View job openings