Vivante Health, the leading digital solution for digestive health, names Rachel Pacheco as the company’s newest board member.
Rachel Pacheco is a former chief people officer, an advisor, an author, and currently a faculty member at The Wharton School of Business, where she teaches global strategy and organizational behavior. She holds a PhD and MBA from The Wharton School of Business and a BS from Georgetown University.
Pacheco’s career spans over a decade and has involved serving on the executive teams of several healthcare and big data startups, as well as a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has supported numerous digital healthcare startups, such as Maven Clinic, Wellthy, Cityblock Health, and Included Health. Pacheco has also advised them on organizational design, team dynamics, talent strategies, and building a healthy culture.
Pacheco’s other work includes ongoing research on management–specifically on power and culture–and her first book, Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, focuses on providing practical tools for new managers in start-up organizations.
Pacheco will work with Vivante’s leadership team and other board members to help scale the business amid a growing need by employees, employers, and health plans for gut health and digestive disease solutions that benefit all parties.
About Vivante Health
Vivante Health is an innovative digital healthcare company reinventing the way chronic conditions are managed, gut first. Our all-in-one gut health program, GIThrive, empowers people—through brilliant technology, advanced science, and on-demand human support—to improve digestive health, while lowering their cost of care. Click here to learn how employers and health plans are saving money with GIThrive or email [email protected].