In honor of March 8’s International Woman’s Day, Comparably looked to highlight some of the businesses around the U.S. with females in the role of Chief Executive Officer. While there is still a major imbalance in terms of gender parity – last year’s Fortune 500 included just 6.6% women – here are four health care companies that have female CEOs calling the shots.
Location: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Julia Hu
Lark Health is the leading chronic disease prevention and management platform using proven, AI-augmented health coaching to deliver better health outcomes at scale. Lark uses cutting edge AI combined with human coaches and connected devices to provide real-time, personalized, 24/7 support and counseling to help users make healthier choices and manage their conditions.
Lark is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: New York, NY
CEO: Katherine Ryder
Maven is the leading women’s and family healthcare company, providing end-to-end coverage for all paths to parenthood. It partners with employers and health plans to fill critical gaps in access and care with its digital, clinical, and human approach–and ultimately improve maternal outcomes, lower costs, and attract and retain more parents in the workforce.
Maven is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
CEO: Katelyn Gleason
Eligible provides patient and insurance billing APIs. The company believes that processing medical payments should be ubiquitous. By seamlessly connecting healthcare systems to insurance payments through modern APIs, Eligible opens up more possibilities for patients and more businesses for providers.
Eligible employees rated their overall culture a A+.
Location: Washington, D.C.
CEO: Jo Ann Jenkins
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social mission organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim is to disrupt outdated stereotypes about aging, turn goals and dreams into real possibilities, and fight for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus, their families and communities.
AARP is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Austin, TX
CEO: Julia Taylor Cheek
Everlywell believes that health tests shouldn’t be hard to get – or hard to understand. The Everlywell experience is simple. You order one of our kits online, you collect your sample from home and return it via pre-paid mail to one of our fully-certified partner laboratories. A board-certified physician in your state will review and validate your results before you get them.
“Absolutely the brightest and most hard working team that Julia has put together!”
EverlyWell is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Burlingame, CA
CEO: Renee Ryan
Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company’s wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation.
Cara Health is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: New York City, NY
CEO: Piraye Beim
Celmatix is a data-driven, research-stage precision health company leveraging insights from its proprietary multi-omics discovery platform, Reproductive Atlas, to develop transformational therapeutics in previously under-studied areas of women’s health.
Celmatix is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: San Mateo, CA
CEO: Deborah Kilpatrick
Evidation Health is a new kind of health and measurement company that provides the world’s most innovative life sciences and health care companies the technology and expertise they need to understand how everyday behavior and health interact. The volume of behavior data generated from smartphones and connected sensors — including wearables and medical devices — has opened up new ways to analyze individuals’ behavior and health in real time, unlocking insights into what medicines and treatments work best and spotting significant changes in health earlier.
Evidation Health is hiring! Find your next role here.