ON Partners is proud to have collaborated with SmartBear in finding the organization’s Chief Revenue Officer.
Ascend Learning Hires GM, Healthcare Ventures
Ascend Learning Names Former Care.com Exec to GM, Healthcare Ventures
Ascend Learning, a leading provider of online educational content, software and analytics serving students, educational institutions and employers, has appointed Scott Healy to General Manager, Healthcare Ventures.
Scott brings to Ascend Learning more than twenty-five years of experience in general management, marketing, business development, and product management. He is an entrepreneurial leader with a passion for building and scaling innovative businesses that disrupt established industries. Scott has been an executive at five Boston-area venture-backed companies, with one IPO and four exits via acquisition.
Most recently, Scott served as EVP & General Manager – Growth Businesses for Care.com. Scott helped build Care.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for care services, from shortly after the company’s founding through its January 2014 IPO. In addition to Care.com’s consumer marketplace business in the U.S., he has also led the company’s international expansion and diversification into new B2B lines of business, both organically and through acquisition. He launched the company’s B2B offerings, including Care@Work (formerly Workplace Solutions) in 2011. In addition to Care.com, Scott has been an entrepreneur in residence at venture capital firm Matrix Partners, and has held senior leadership roles at licensed product manufacturer OYO Sports (restructuring and sale), online purchasing marketplace BuyerZone (acquired by Reed Elsevier), digital marketing services provider e-Dialog (acquired by GSI Commerce, then eBay), and customer analytics software company DataSage (acquired by Vignette, now part of OpenText). Earlier in his career, Scott worked as a brand manager at Unilever and as a consultant at strategy consulting firm Monitor Group.
Scott is active in youth sports and advising entrepreneurs and early stage companies. He holds a B.A. with Honors from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
ON Partners consultant Lenny Vairo is proud to have partnered with Ascend Learning and Scott Healy on this successful placement.
ABOUT ASCEND LEARNING
Ascend Learning is a leading provider of online educational content, software and analytics serving students, educational institutions and employers. With products that span the learning continuum, Ascend Learning focuses on high-growth careers in a range of industries, with a special focus on healthcare and other high-growth, licensure-driven professions. Ascend Learning products, from testing to certification, are used by frontline healthcare workers, physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers all along the learning continuum from student through the lifetime career professional. ATI Nursing Education, an Ascend Learning business, uses progressive data analytics and compelling content to help nursing students master core curriculum, develop into a practice-ready nurse, and succeed on the NCLEX. Learn more at www.ascendlearning.com.
ABOUT ON PARTNERS
ON Partners propels an organization’s mission by building C-level and board leadership teams. Founded in 2006 by like-minded consultants as a values-driven alternative to the multi-service global firms they were leaving behind, ON delivers a better executive search experience. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms and to the Inc. 500/5000 Lists seven times, the firm is consistently ranked among the top 20 retained executive search firms in the U.S. For more information, see our results here.
Follow our work, updates and recent success on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Find our related successful placements of leading executives here.
About ON Partners
Since 2006, ON Partners is the only pure-play executive search firm building diverse C-level and board leadership teams. We rebuilt the institution of executive search for the way you work. Our approach includes present partners who engage with their clients from the first brief to the final decision, individually crafted solutions that are unique to each client, and an easier experience all around. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms and to the Inc. 500/5000 Lists nine times, ON Partners is consistently ranked among the top 20 retained executive search firms in the U.S.
Untraditional by Choice. Original by Design. Since 2006.
START YOUR JOURNEY WITH US TODAY.
If you want to create a new path – ON Partners knows how to help you get there.