Issue 10 2019

CEO MONTHLY / ISSUE 10 2019 5 , The National Associ- ation for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) Board of Trustees has appointed Shawn Coughlin as its president and CEO beginning in January 2020. Coughlin succeeds Mark Covall, who is retiring after more than 35 years with the association and 24 years as its president and CEO. The Board announced the suc- cession plan in conjunction with its Fall Board Meeting in Washington. “It has been a privilege to work closely for decades with the peo- ple who manage and provide life-saving behavioral healthcare services to some of the most vul- nerable citizens in our country,” Covall said. “For years, I’ve also enjoyed working with skilled and dedicated teams here in Wash- ington who have helped expand our services and change U.S. public policy,” he added. “The association is well-positioned to tackle America’s serious mental health and substance use dis- order challenges, and Shawn Coughlin has the energy, experi- ence, commitment, and personal- ity to take NABH to the next level.” Coughlin has served as NABH’s executive vice president for gov- ernment relations and public policy since January 2017. Before then, he served as one of the associa- tion’s chief lobbyists on Capitol Hill. “I am honored to serve as NABH’s president and CEO after Mark’s long and impressive tenure,” Coughlin said. “Mark has been a mentor to me for nearly 20 years. His knowledge of—and passion for— improving mental health and addiction treatment services in the United States is unmatched,” he added. “When you add to this his gift for relationship-building with our members and essential partners in Washington, you can understand how the association has grown in size and influence under his leadership. I thank him for building such a strong founda- tion for our team, and I’m excited to lead NABH into the future.” Covall will retire on Dec. 31, 2019 and will serve on NABH’s Board for a two-year term. Coughlin will become president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2020. Jeeva Wireless announced that its board of directors has appointed Scott Bright as Chief Exec- utive Officer, Mr. Bright was pre- viously Co-Founder and CEO of Synapse Product Development. “We are delighted that Scott Bright is leading the Jeeva team. His years of experience growing and running high tech enter- prises will enable the company to deliver great results for our customers, employees, and investors,” said Co-Founder and board Chair Dr. Joshua Smith, the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor, jointly appointed to the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. According to Jeeva’s President and Co-Founder, Dr. Shyam Gollakota, a U.W. Associate Pro- fessor who leads the U.W. Net- works and Mobile Systems Lab: “Backscatter and battery-free technologies have the potential to be transformative across a number of market segments by addressing a major pain point, i.e., power consumption. Jeeva Shawn Coughlin Named Next NABH President and CEO Technology product development veteran Scott Bright appointed CEO. Association’s Executive VP Succeeds Retiring NABHPresident and CEOMark Covall wireless is uniquely positioned to solve the battery problem using award-winning technology for low-power communication as well as wirelessly powering devices. We are excited for Scott to lead the company to both strengthen our existing partner- ship with leading brands as well as leapfrog growth and partner- ships with businesses across a number of product verticals.” Bright said, “I am honored and excited to build a scalable stream of product solutions based on the incredible technology founda- tion laid by the founding team of talented engineers at Jeeva Wireless. Using only tens of microwatts, Jeeva Wireless can deliver kilobit data rates across hundreds of meters, and up to a megabit-per-second in room-scale deployments. The breadth of innovations made possible by this game-changing platform is as- tounding and we’re eagerly work- ing to enable the next-generation of ultra-low-power IoT devices: personal electronics, medical and health-care appliances, industrial and enterprise process controls, smart-city and home automation systems, and manufacturing/distri- bution logistics tracking tools - just to name a few!”