What Happened?
Carmel, IN-based American Specialty Health Appointed Jerome Bonhomme as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) provides health plans, employer groups, insurance carriers and trust funds with a wide range of wellness and population health, fitness and exercise, and specialty health care management programs to improve the health of their employees or members. Our Healthyroads® program is one of the largest employee wellness and prevention programs, serving hundreds of employer groups and more than 5 million members across the country. From telephone and online health coaching to wellness incentive programs to worksite health challenges, we offer it all under one roof. Our fitness and exercise services, including Silver&Fit® for Medicare Advantage members and Active&Fit® for commercial members, provide no-cost, low-cost, discount, or reimbursement fitness club/exercise center membership programs; walking, home exercise, and reward programs; as well as Internet-based exercise tools. And our specialty health provider programs for health plans contract with more than 30,000 specialty health care practitioners. Headquartered in Carmel, IN, with offices in San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX and Columbia, S.C., ASH has more than 1,200 employees and administers programs for more than 31 million members nationwide. Other products offered through ASH and its subsidiaries include ExerciseRewards™, FitnessCoach™, and others.
About the Person
Jerome Bonhomme will lead ASH’s new consumer technology department, focused on developing, maintaining and expanding the company’s consumer-facing web site capabilities and innovative applications, and enhancing internal systems and platforms. Bonhomme previously was vice president of software engineering at Lytx in San Diego. There, he was responsible for all software engineering and product development, delivering a next generation platform and implementing new software engineering processes. While at Lytx he also filed several patents in the domain of geo-spatial data processing. In 2004, Bonhomme joined Sony Electronics to develop the architecture and launch Store.Sony.com, Sony’s online store. Later he became part of Sony’s global technology team as director and chief architect for the Global eCommerce Platform. He led the creation of a single cohesive platform to serve each country with its own language and fulfillment capabilities. Bonhomme is a graduate of the University Sorbonne in Paris, where he earned a MS in electrical engineering and a MS in computer science. He worked in several technology positions in France and San Diego before settling at BroadVision in San Diego as a technical manager in 2000. In this role, Bonhomme developed new generations of their platforms and helped launch four products.
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