At BrightSpring®, the Way We Lead is founded upon the principles of our Legacy Culture. Leadership is something that we all have opportunity to practice every day, as we help those we support live their best lives.
Jon Rousseau has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rousseau was an executive vice president at Kindred Healthcare, Inc. with multiple leadership roles from June 2013 – July 2016, including president of Kindred Rehabilitation Services and prior to that president of the Care Management Division and Kindred at Home, Kindred’s home health, hospice, home care and home-based primary care businesses.
Before Kindred, Mr. Rousseau held a number of senior leadership positions at other market-leading healthcare product and technology companies, including vice president of global marketing, strategy, and commercial development at Mylan, Inc. and global senior director of the continuous glucose monitoring franchise with Medtronic PLC (2006 – 2013).
For the first part of his career, Mr. Rousseau worked at Friedman Fleischer & Lowe LLC in private equity (1998 – 2005) and at Morgan Stanley in investment banking (1996 – 1998).
He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his A.B. degree from Princeton University. We believe Mr. Rousseau’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his extensive executive and leadership experience in the healthcare industry and his multi-disciplinary background.
