OUR FOUNDER - DON WRIGHT

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Employee No. 1 departing Assurex Health

Don Wright has spent the past decade growing Assurex Health from technology invented at Mayo Clinic and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to a company of almost 500 employees serving over 500,000 people with mental health conditions. Assurex Health was acquired in 2016 by Myriad Genetics allowing Don to use his more than 25 years of experience in the informatics, product development, operations and life sciences fields, to assisting others turn their ideas into hyper-growth companies.

Before co-founding the Assurex Health team, Don was co-founder and CTO of SaaS Capital, a specialty finance company serving the SaaS enterprise software application market. He has also served as Vice President of Global Product Development at Attachmate Corporation, directing a product development team of over 500 professionals worldwide that served over 65,000 customers and accounts in nearly all the Global 10,000 enterprises. Don has previously held positions as Vice President and CTO for Spotlight Solutions and Vice President and CIO for Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions, both located in Mason Ohio. He is member of the board of directors of Include Fitness and the European American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the board of advisors of the NKU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the University of Cincinnati Business Analytics & Information Systems, and the Sinclair College Biotechnology Department. 


With over 25 years of experience in the informatics, product development, operations and life sciences fields, Don now brings his passion to helping others turn their ideas into high-growth companies.

 

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