Jonathan S. Bush | |
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Born | March 10, 1969 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University Harvard Business School |
Known for | Cofounder and former CEO of athenahealth |
Parent(s) | Jonathan Bush Josephine Bush |
Relatives | George W. Bush (cousin) George H. W. Bush (uncle) Billy Bush (brother) |
Website | https://twitter.com/jonathan_bush |
Jonathan S. Bush (born March 10, 1969)[1] is an American technology entrepreneur, best known as the cofounder and former chief executive officer of athenahealth, a Watertown, Massachusetts-based healthcare technology company founded in 1997.[2][3] On June 6, 2018, Bush resigned from his position as CEO of athenahealth during an activist campaign by Elliott Management.[4][5]
Early life and education
[edit]Bush is the son of Jonathan Bush, cousin of U.S. President George W. Bush,[6] nephew of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and brother of television presenter Billy Bush. He grew up in Manhattan and attended the Allen-Stevenson School.
Bush graduated from the Phillips Academy college preparatory school in Andover, Massachusetts.[7] He attended Boston University for one year in 1988–89, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in The College of Social studies, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University in 1997.[2]
Business career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Just before coming to Wesleyan, Bush took time off from his studies to work on George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. As an EMT, Bush spent a summer vacation during college operating a 911 response ambulance in New Orleans. In 1991, Bush volunteered to become a combat medic at the start of Operation Desert Storm, doing boot camp at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, but did not ship out because the war ended before he finished.[7][8]
The business side of Bush's training stemmed from his time as an associate of J. Bush & Company, Inc., a firm founded by his father that assisted foreign embassies in banking, and as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a member of its Managed Care Strategy Group.[9]
athenahealth
[edit]In 1997, Bush and Todd Park, a colleague from Booz Allen, founded Athena Women's Health, a women's health and birthing clinic housed in San Diego for soon-to-be, new, and current mothers. After Park's brother Ed Park helped develop its system, Athena Women's Health transformed into athenahealth, a healthcare technology platform offering a suite of services to help hospital and ambulatory providers coordinate care and work at the tops of their licenses. In 2000, Bush raised more than $10 million in venture capital funding to support athenahealth,[10] which launched a successful IPO in 2007.[11] Bush was athenahealth's CEO until his resignation on June 6, 2018.[4]
Zus Health
[edit]Bush is listed as the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Zus Health.[12]
Publications
[edit]Bush is the author, with Stephen L. Baker, of the New York Times bestseller[13] Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care (Penguin, May 2014).[14] He is also a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and STAT, and to podcasts like POLITICO Pulse Check.
Honors and awards
[edit]In 2013, Bush was named CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC).[15] In 2016 he received the Tufts Medical Center's Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership.[16] Fortune included Bush as a "disruptor" in its list of "34 Leaders Who Are Changing Healthcare," writing that "few are more persuasive—and outspoken—about the need to repair our healthcare system."[17]
Personal life
[edit]Bush is married and has six children. In May 2018, a report detailed Bush's verbal and physical abuse towards his first wife. Claims were dropped after further investigation.[18][19] He is currently married to Fay Rotenberg.
References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ a b Official athenahealth biography Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Jonathan S. Bush, "Jonathan Bush: Wiring Up Doctors". Fortune. Interview with Brian Dumaine. January 17, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Bush steps down from athenahealth – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor".
- ^ Jennifer Reingold. July 2005. "The Bush [health-care] solution". Fast Company, issue 96.
- ^ a b Donnelly, Julie M. (2011-06-17). "Recovering workaholic: athenahealth founder Jonathan Bush finds healthy balance to life". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ Bush, Jonathan (2014). Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care. New York, New York: Portfolio/Penguin. ISBN 978-1591846772.
- ^ "Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush: A Disruptive Force in Health Care". www.institutionalinvestor.com. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ Oliver Ryan. January 22, 2007. "The Bush who pays the bills." Fortune. Vol. 155, Issue 1.
- ^ Lynn Cowan. September 21, 2007. "athenahealth IPO Soars 97%; Year's Best Debut Adds Some Zest To Slow September". Wall Street Journal p. C3.
- ^ "About Zus Health". About Zus Health. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ The New York Times (2014-06-09). "Best Selling Science Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books – Best Sellers – June 1, 2014 – The New York Times".
- ^ "Press Releases | athenahealth | Press Release". newsroom.athenahealth.com. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "Athenahealth's Jonathan Bush to be honored with Tufts Medical Center's Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ Staff, Fortune. "34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care". Fortune. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ English, Carleton (6 June 2018). "Athenahealth CEO steps down in wake of past abuse allegations". New York Post.
- ^ LaVito, Angelica (29 May 2018). "Athenahealth CEO apologizes for attacking ex-wife during custody battle more than a decade ago". CNBC.