Rick Altinger

Rick joined Glooko as its first CEO in January 2013 shortly after Glooko received its first FDA clearance. Glooko makes diabetes management easier for patients and their care teams by enabling better and faster data driven decisions that improve outcomes at lower costs.

With 30 years in the technology industry, concentrating on healthcare technology for the last 20 years, Rick has held a variety of leadership positions with large and small organizations in strategy, business development, product management, account management and systems integration positions. He was a Vice President in the healthcare business unit at Intuit where he launched their provider services and drove the effort that resulted in Intuit acquiring Medfusion. Rick was also Executive Vice President at VantageMed, an EHR and billing services company that he helped turnaround and successfully sell. As Vice President of Business Development at Healtheon/WebMD Rick set product strategy and drove major acquisitions including Envoy, Medical Manger, Kinetra and MedE America and played a key role in driving their growth to over $1B in revenue. Rick received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University.

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