Talkspace, Inc. announced that it has appointed Dr. Jon R. Cohen, a board director since September 2022, as its new Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned executive with extensive experience scaling technology-driven healthcare companies, Dr. Cohen will assume day-to-day leadership of the company from interim CEO Doug Braunstein, who will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board. Cohen brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience as a seasoned executive with a successful track record of driving strategic transformations and implementing operational discipline while developing a number of new business ventures.

Cohen has specific experience developing and scaling digital health and mobile health technology initiatives. As Executive Chairman and CEO of BioReference Laboratories, one of the nation's four commercial laboratories, he built and scaled Scarlet Health, the nation's digital at home blood draw solution utilized by major telehealth platforms, which is now a covered service for over 83 million people. Cohen has also developed successful commercial relationships with a number of large national health systems and payors while part of the executive leadership team at Quest Diagnostic and BioReference.