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

     

    As our condition-specific communities expanded, we broadened our relationships with more than 100,000 patient leaders across nearly all health conditions. This growth enabled us to enhance our portfolio by adding cutting-edge influencer solutions. From turnkey to fully custom solutions, our influencer marketing products allow brands to leverage the authenticity and reach of credible patient voices to drive ROI.

  • Developing reach

    We built a sophisticated, privacy-safe data infrastructure based on the millions of daily engagements within our communities to enable us to reach audiences wherever they are. We have over 50 million patient IDs, all collected in a privacy-first environment. This rich data enables us to create persona-based segmentation and analytics with unlimited activation and omnichannel reach.

     

    Developing reach

  • Expanded capabilities

     

    With the addition of the most extensive and unique HCP data with over 8.3 million records representing 2.8 million NPIs, more than 100 license types and 600 specialties, we’re able to activate the largest and most unique first-party patient and HCP dataset for integrated, omnichannel media solutions.

  • 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

Alex Laymon

Chief Innovation Officer

Tim Finley

Chief Financial Officer

Scott Schappell

Chief Revenue Officer

David Shronk

Chief Commercial
Officer

Steve Warker

Executive Vice President, Product

Sara Hayes

Chief Community Officer

Tim Armand

Co-Founder and Board Member

Jack Barrette

Innovation Advisor

Amrita
Bhowmick, Ed.D.

Strategic Advisor

J. Blake Harris

Creative Advisor

Our Culture and Values

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!

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!

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