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Meet Our Executive Team
Viverae is lead by a group of seasoned executives with backgrounds in health consulting, insurance, education and research, technology and management. Their innovative, forward thinking has taken this company from wellness startup to industry leader.
Michael Nadeau
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Nadeau, the principal and founding member of Viverae, brings more than 14 years of outsourcing and human resources experience to Viverae. Prior to Viverae, Nadeau’s career began in Boston where he worked in the software development, IT consulting and healthcare industries.
He relocated to Dallas in 1998 to open an office as an equity partner for Acuity Technology, an IT consulting company. After Acuity was acquired, Nadeau went to work for an HR outsourcing company and it was there Nadeau recognized the need to address the rising costs of health care in the United States and the lack of comprehensive wellness programs for corporations aimed at lowering those costs. As a result, Nadeau founded Viverae.
Jeff Brizzolara, PhD, MBA, MPH
Chief Clinical Officer
Jeff Brizzolara has nearly 18 years of experience in health management, preventive medicine and wellness services. He possesses a unique combination of skills in management, teaching and research, as well as considerable training in Six Sigma methodology.
Dr. Brizzolara has directed a variety of health-related programs in for-profit and not-for-profit health care systems in both urban and rural settings, and has served as a Lecturer at Rice University and Clinical Instructor at both The University of Texas Health Science Center and Baylor College of Medicine. Jeff was recently one of five individuals from Texas (and the only one from Dallas) appointed to WELCOA’s National Panel of Advisors.
Mark Head
Chief Solutions Officer
As Chief Solutions Officer, Mark provides strategic health management services to our clients, including workplace wellness programs, products and services, and integrated wellness, medical and disease management benefit design and delivery. Mark has 25 years combined experience in the health promotion, wellness, health insurance brokerage and consulting businesses.
Mark currently serves on the Chairman’s Council of the Foundation For Responsible Televsion, producers of the McCuistion Program. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Dallas Chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He has also served on the Steering and Advisory Committees of the DISD Business and Management Center Magnet School, Positive Parents of Dallas, the Goals for Dallas Education Committee, the Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, and was the campaign treasurer for David Childs in 1995. He is a member of the World Future Society and Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
Dave Smith
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Smith has over 16 years of experience in product and team building for large scale commercial software developments. He has managed and architected commercial grade products through full life cycles, from startup to maintenance in healthcare and other industries.
Smith most recently served as Vice President Software Engineering at the TriZetto Group where he was responsible for the development of six products which are used today by some of the nation’s largest health plans. During his time at TriZetto, he served as a member of the TriZetto Architecture Council, a group responsible for making enterprise level software architecture decisions for the entire company consisting of over 400 developers. Smith co-founded HealthWeb Systems LLC which was purchased by TriZetto in 1999. He was instrumental as a key team member, taking the company to a multi-million dollar business in less than three years.
Scott Thompson
Chief Operating Officer
Scott Thompson has worked in the field of wellness and preventive healthcare for more than 7 years. He worked with WinningHabits, a startup company focused on providing wellness programs to employer groups which formed in 1999. WinningHabits was subsequently acquired by Matria Healthcare, an Atlanta-based company that provides population health enhancement solutions to employers and health plans. Scott was named Senior Vice President of Wellness Operations for the company after the merger was completed.
Scott is originally from the Oklahoma City area and moved to Dallas after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems.