Rudish Health Assists Novant Health with the Recruitment of Chief Revenue Officer
May 27, 2025 – Boca Raton, FL-headquartered healthcare advisory and talent leadership firm Rudish Health recently assisted in the recruitment of Heather Dunn as senior vice president and chief revenue officer of Novant Health in Winston-Salem, NC. In this role, she will lead Novant Health’s billing department, including financial assistance programs, interface with payors, and identify integration and strategic opportunities.
“Heather brings a wealth of healthcare experience, and we’re delighted to welcome her to our team,” said Alice Pope, executive vice president and chief financial officer. “We are confident her expertise will help further advance our work to deliver a seamless patient financial experience across all of our sites of care.”
Ms. Dunn was most recently president of The SSI Group, a privately held healthcare revenue cycle technology company. She was also previously vice president, finance and chief revenue cycle officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and executive director, revenue operations and clinical coding at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Before those positions, Ms. Dunn worked in financial and information technology roles with Kaiser Permanente and Roper St. Francis.
Novant Health is an integrated network of more than 900 locations, including 19 hospitals, more than 750 physician clinics and urgent care centers, outpatient facilities, and imaging and pharmacy services. It operates primarily across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. With a mission to improve the health of communities, Novant Health emphasizes patient-centered care, innovative medical practices, and accessibility. The system includes more than a dozen medical centers and thousands of physicians and nurses delivering care in a wide range of specialties.
Rudish Health provides major health systems, health plans, professional services firms, private equity, venture capital, and emerging growth companies with strategic advisory and talent leadership solutions. The firm can also help emergent companies define their growth strategies and cultivate market connections.
Rudish Health was founded in 2014 by Russ Rudish and Jessica Rudish now manages the firm’s team of healthcare experts. Mr. Rudish has more than 30 years of industry experience and has deep and enduring relationships with major healthcare organizations in the United States and abroad. He co-founded Rudish Health in 2014 with a mission to help healthcare clients in every way he could. Today, that includes helping clients with executive search, professional search, interim management, recruiting automation, hospital acquisitions and joint ventures, IT, live medical interpreter services, credentialing, and other consultative services. Rudish Health also assists emerging companies with strategy and growth initiatives.
Ms. Rush has 15+ years of experience serving healthcare providers, health plans, and other healthcare ecosystem players. At Rudish Health, she oversees all executive search and interim management assignments. She also guides venture clients through strategic planning and business acquisition. Prior to joining Rudish Health Solutions, Ms. Rush was a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, where she served healthcare provider and health plan clients, delivering both strategy and operations engagements.
Evolving Role
The chief revenue officer essentially owns everything that goes to market – sales, account management, customer success, and sometimes marketing as well. Finding these types of leaders has kept search firms busy. Here is a sampling from the Hunt Scanlon Media archives:
San Diego, CA-headquartered Bespoke Partners recently helped to recruit Dave Vonk as chief revenue officer of Fusion Risk Management. Tess Fischer and Medha Raj led the assignment. “We are thrilled to welcome Dave as our chief revenue officer, especially as Fusion continues to grow and evolve to meet the needs of organizations worldwide,” said Michael Campbell, CEO of Fusion Risk Management. “Dave’s extensive experience in revenue leadership, deep understanding of the risk and technology sectors, and ability to foster strategic partnerships make him an ideal fit for our company. His expertise will be instrumental in accelerating expansion and ensuring Fusion remains at the forefront of the industry.”
Kevin Barry of SPMB Executive Search has helped to place John Sapone as the new chief revenue officer of NinjaOne. “It was a privilege to help bring aboard a proven revenue leader whose impact at companies like Snowflake, ServiceNow, Nimble Storage, and Data Domain speaks for itself,” Mr. Barry said in a LinkedIn post. “John’s track record scaling world-class teams and delivering results makes him the ideal leader to guide NinjaOne through its next phase of growth. Thank you to co-founders Sal Sferlazza and Christopher Matarese for entrusting SPMB with this critical hire, and to Brad Delaplane for the partnership along the way. It’s searches and outcomes like these that make the work so rewarding. Can’t wait to see what’s ahead for the NinjaOne team.”
Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor and Sarah Scheer of Artico Search have assisted in the recruitment of Dustin Deno as the new chief revenue officer of Spryker, a global composable commerce platform for sophisticated use cases in B2B, enterprise marketplaces, and IoT commerce. “We are thrilled to have Dustin join the Spryker leadership team,” said Boris Lokschin, co-founder and CEO at Spryker. “His innovative mindset and active pulse on new ways to approach business and leverage our global partner ecosystem will propel our sales execution to the next level, drive more value for our customers, and expand our footprint in North America. As we continue to expand globally, enterprises will continue to face volatility in all markets and it’s our aim to provide the technology and ecosystem support to ensure our customers can meet their business goals efficiently.”
Related: ON Partners Recruits Chief Revenue Officer for Logile
Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
