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.
A brilliant idea
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.
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!