Noom proclaims three new hires to its govt crew

Digital weight reduction firm Noom has introduced a number of new hires inside its management crew, together with its new govt vice chairman and chief monetary officer Jean Clifton, chief know-how officer Wealthy Friedman and common counsel Norman Petty. 

The corporate has additionally appointed Jim Bugden as senior vice chairman of company growth and partnerships, Katerina Kugel as senior director of brand name and communications, and internally promoted Nikhil Jhunjhnuwala to chief development Officer, Raj Krishnan to chief product officer, Cody Honest to SVP healthcare gross sales and providers and Manik Dewan to go of individuals.

Clifton beforehand held the place of govt vice chairman and CFO of behavioral well being firm Pyramid Healthcare. Petty held management roles at The Wall Road Journal, different Dow Jones client manufacturers and social networking providers firm The Meet Group. 

“We’re delighted that Jean, Wealthy, Norman, Jim, and Katerina have joined our Noom crew, and are thrilled with those that have lately earned promotions by means of their onerous work and dedication,” Geoff Prepare dinner, CEO of Noom, mentioned in a press release. “Every of them is obsessed with our mission to empower everybody, all over the place, to stay a greater, more healthy life. They convey with them distinctive management experiences and distinctive views that may assist Noom efficiently innovate and drive development.”

THE LARGER TREND

In July, Noom introduced the appointment of Geoff Prepare dinner as its CEO and a brand new member of the corporate’s board of administrators. 

Prepare dinner cofounded and served as CEO of The Meet Group, a company newly appointed Petty additionally labored for, the place he took the agency public earlier than it was acquired by eHarmony’s mother or father firm Parship Group. 

The corporate’s former CEO and cofounder, Saeju Jeong, stepped down after 16 years however would proceed as govt chairman of the board. 

Noom has garnered vital funding, scoring a staggering $540 million in Collection F funding in 2021 and $58 million simply two years earlier. 

Nonetheless, the digital weight reduction firm was not proof against the in depth workforce reductions inside digital well being firms in 2022, asserting two rounds of layoffs that yr.

Earlier this yr, the corporate introduced a third spherical of job cuts, reportedly shedding a couple of quarter of its coaches. 

In October, Noom introduced the enlargement of its digital enterprise providing, Noom for Work, to incorporate medical weight problems administration answer Noom Med.  

Noom Med gives psychological instruments, neighborhood assist and content material, and entry to clinicians with obesity-care coaching who present custom-made weight-loss plans and assist for sufferers in lowering their reliance on GLP-1 drugs.