PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Chris joined us as Executive Vice President, Product and Business Development, in 2006 but it wasn’t long before he was named CEO. He’s our fearless leader, he’s on our Board of Directors, and he’s our resident DJ, known to upset the upstairs neighbors with the volume of his tunes.

He was a founder of UPromise – a successful loyalty coalition and college savings account business. While he claims pure altruism gave him the stroke of genius for the concept, we think he was just desperate to find a way to pay for his five daughters’ educations along with his own tuition at Harvard Business School. While at UPromise, he was VP of Business Development, responsible for articulating UPromise’s value proposition for all strategic partnerships. He built a biz dev team which now boasts the largest and most comprehensive partner coalition of any loyalty program in the US.

In the late-nineties, Chris was Director of HealthCare Business Unit at Trilogy Development Group in Austin, Texas. We think this is where he developed his love for loud country music.

Chris gets active by running up and down the sidelines at his oldest daughter’s basketball games, playing soccer in the backyard with the other four, walking Liberty, his retriever (yep, another girl) and hopping on mountain bikes on the weekends with his wife. He’s got a weakness for pizza, but that’s not stopping him on his current quest to get back down to his college weight.

PRESIDENT OF FIELD OPERATIONS

Sean comes to Virgin HealthMiles as an experienced public company officer and executive with an impressive record of consistently growing companies. And he’s here to help us grow ours. Sean also serves on our Board of Directors.

Most recently, Sean was with RightNow Technologies, the industry leader in OnDemand Customer Service software, where he was responsible for global strategy, marketing, industry expansion, business development and product management. While at RightNow, Sean was instrumental in helping the company become the undisputed leader in OnDemand customer service software, generating over 400 percent revenue growth, dramatically expanded its markets and margins, and successfully completing an IPO. Prior to RightNow, Sean served as Vice President of Business Development at Trilogy Software, the industry leader in sales configuration software, where he built its automotive business unit. Sean also led numerous domestic and international leveraged buy-out engagements with Bain & Company's Private Equity Group in Boston, New York, and Moscow.

A decorated veteran of the United States Navy, Sean served as a Surface Warfare Officer and led SEAL trained boarding teams. He was also a Foreign Exchange Officer with both the Japanese and Indonesian Navies. He has an MBA from Harvard and a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

We didn’t make that up.

He stays active by running around with his tireless toddlers, and by teaching his English bulldog ‘Rumples’ to swim.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES

Scott has been at the forefront of corporate wellness and health services for 25 years, and we were very pleased to bring him aboard this year. At Virgin HealthMiles, he is responsible for bringing our program to Corporate America.

Scott has worked for start-ups and Fortune 50 companies, delivering over a quarter of a billion dollars in services and products. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President for Sales and Business Development at Free & Clear, Inc., the nation’s leading smoking cessation company. Under his leadership the company grew to over $20 million with the addition of more than 50 clients. Thousands of people quit smoking and added years to their lives.

As the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at HCORP, Scott contributed to the successful acquisition of this leader in patient interactive television. He was also a Partner at Associated Healthcare Consultants which served as liaison between health care providers, payers and vendors to create lasting partnerships. At OneBody.com, an innovator in alternative health, Scott grew the company to over 7 million consumers as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Scott held executive roles at Carewise, a pioneering demand and disease management company, Private Healthcare Systems, an early managed care organization, Olsten Kimberley Quality Care, the nations largest home health company, and Hewlett-Packard, where he was a start-up member of a health care information system division.

Scott graduated Cum Laude from Dartmouth College. He runs to stay active, with The Grateful Dead playing in his ears. After many years using a pull cart, he recently purchased a golfbag and now carries his clubs. He tries to stay away from sweets but often fails if there’s a bag of squirrel nut candies lying around.

VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

We found Jamie in London when HealthMiles was still a baby. We convinced him to join us in the States in 2004, and he’s been shaping our new business channels ever since. As our VP of Business Development, he’s created relationships with health clubs, data aggregators, medical insurers and re-insurers, and he makes good our strategic supply arrangements and joint venture opportunities that help us sell the program more efficiently.

Jamie came to us from a branded Venture Capital firm that introduced a wide variety of consumer and web-based products which all carried the same brand and customer value proposition. He was involved in many start-ups, which meant lots of late nights and crazy deadlines (preparing him well for VHM). His career started in the City of London arranging and financing the building of new infrastructure projects across Europe.

Jamie is a student of politics from the University of Edinburgh, and it was in Scotland where he was bitten by the outdoor bug. You’ll often find him in his mountain boots, in a tent or on a bicycle. He threatens to cycle to his next meeting in Denver, provided his climbing gear fits in the panniers.

VICE PRESIDENT OF HEALTH & FITNESS

Jennifer is Virgin HealthMiles Employee # 1. And as much as we love her, we actually mean that literally. She’s our very first employee, coming to us by way of Virgin Active where she was Worldwide Director of Health and Fitness. Jennifer has nearly 20 years’ experience in senior management roles at national and international health & fitness businesses, and is largely responsible for getting HealthMiles off the ground.

As Vice President of Health & Fitness, Jennifer builds partnerships with key distributors of HealthMiles, oversees the activities of our Science Advisory Board, and is responsible for the company’s health and fitness policy and evidence.

Her Masters Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Colorado included an internship at a ground-breaking corporate Wellness Center at Coors Brewing Company. She taught midnight aerobics for the late shift which often ended with a cold beer. After a brief stint in research and clinical settings, she found her true passion in the applied world of health and fitness for the “Average Joe” – people who don’t have an innate love or drive to be physically active, but do value their health and well-being. She has developed and implemented practical fitness and weight management programs for all ages, from 6 to 96.

Jennifer and her family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity, including skiing, hiking and a good game of Frisbee. She’s determined to keep her activity level high enough to combat the endless pints of Ben & Jerry’s. So far so good.

VICE PRESIDENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Richard’s another one of our transported Brits, coming to us from outside London. He’s our Vice President of Information Technology, responsible for technical development, build, implementation and operation of the HealthMiles program. Without Richard, well…

He led IT & Operations for Virgin Cars, along with lots of projects for various Virgin start-ups. Prior to working for Virgin, Richard was with RL Polk, managing teams responsible for System Infrastructure and Database Management across Europe.

He has an Honors degree from Liverpool University in Business Studies and Information Management. He’s plenty active but is more of a weekend, long-distance “binge” runner. Any time for daily activity is spent chasing his 2 young children.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Mark Pover is our Chief Financial Officer and resident handyman. It’s not uncommon to see him with a P&L statement in one hand and a power drill in the other.

Before joining us, Mark was the Chief Operating and Financial Officer of the Utix Group, Inc., a publicly traded, technology based company servicing the incentive and marketing industry using is patented variable level prepaid card technologies. While there, he authored and patented new technological processes using the prepaid card transaction network and implemented new technology applications which accounted for a 300% increase in corporate sales.

Previously, Mark was Chief Financial Officer of Turbine Entertainment Software, where he was responsible for all of the financial and administrative functions. During Mark’s tenure, Turbine grew from 28 employees to 220 employees, raised over $50 million in capital, secured licenses to develop the online massively multiplayer games for Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons, acquired the game rights to Asheron’s Call from Microsoft and developed and launched both Asheron’s Call and Asheron’s Call: Fallen Kings, both online massively multiplayer games.

We ask, but we still don’t understand what ‘massively multiplayer games’ means. We think there’s a super-secret gold key that unlocks this knowledge that we haven’t yet found.

Mark co-founded and served as Chief Operating and Financial Officer of EON Reality, Inc., a virtual reality technology company, in Troy, Michigan. He served as Chief Financial Officer for Prosolvia AB and held a number of positions, including General Manager and Chief Financial Officer with Vidco International & Associates, Inc.

Mark is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and former partner of Porvin, Tobes & Burnstein, PC. Mark has a MS degree from Walsh and a BS degree from the University of Michigan. Since joining Virgin HealthMiles, he has given up the golf cart and walks the 18 holes instead, but you’ll still catch him on the couch playing video games with his sons on occasion.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT

Tom heads up our corporate Marketing activities and the challenges and programs that keep our members motivated. He joined Virgin HealthMiles in the summer of 2008, when we convinced him that the east coast is just as cool as the west one, where he hails from.

Tom comes to us with extensive IT industry experience. Most recently he worked for Microsoft in the Microsoft Office group planning future product offerings. Before Microsoft, Tom was the Vice President of Solutions for RightNow Technologies where he developed and managed the product management and product marketing functions for software, services and hosting offerings.

Prior to RightNow, Tom was at Hewlett Packard for over 10 years where he focused on building several businesses, including the high-growth years of the LaserJet business, the launch of consumer PCs, and the development of new technologies and channels. Tom contributed in functions ranging from Marketing and Manufacturing to Service and Channels Management.

Tom’s an avid skier, hiker and occasional fly fisherman. We’re not sure he believes the east coast is cooler yet, but he seemed pretty excited the day he returned from riding a mechanical bull at one of Boston’s attempts at a cowboy bar.