Digital health company Apree Health is reviving its Castlight Health brand and has tapped Jonathan Porter as CEO to lead the effort.
Apree Health formed as part of a January 2022 merger between healthcare navigation-focused Castlight Health and primary care provider Vera Whole Health in an estimated $370 million deal. Porter, previously Apree's chief product officer, will oversee the company's effort to reestablish the Castlight Health brand and complement its Vera Whole Health offering.
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Porter succeeds Donald Trigg as CEO, who took helm of the company following the merger of Castlight and Vera Whole Health. The leadership transition to Porter began in January.
The company will begin marketing Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health as standalone brands moving forward, Porter said. As CEO, he is renewing the company's focus on technology and partnering with more primary care clinics.
"For Castlight, we're really leaning back into being a tech first company and going to revamp and sort of advance some of the specific parts of the tech product, and hopefully leapfrog some of what is out there," Porter said. "On the Vera [Whole Health] side, we're trying to grow not only through building clinics, which is where we've traditionally grown, but we also have started to partner and add some of our services to existing primary care clinics to allow us to grow more quickly."
Apree Health is a business unit of Mosaic Health, a joint venture formed by insurer Elevance Health and private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice last August. Porter previously worked at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice before joining Apree in August.
Castlight was co-founded in 2008 by former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, entrepreneur Dr. Giovanni Colella and venture capital investor Bryan Roberts. The company went public in 2014 before going private after the merger in 2022.
