In this country, health outcomes are too often dictated by your ZIP code, but one company is working very hard to fix those inequities.
Demond Martin, is the CEO and co-founder of WellWithAll, a health and wellness company dedicated to advancing health equity for underserved communities. Operating under ‘inclusive capitalism’, WellWithAll reinvests 20% of its profits into health initiatives tailored to specific community needs, tackling health disparities, and ensuring a targeted approach to wellness.
Before WellWithAll, Demond was a senior partner at Adage Capital Management, where he invested in the consumer sector for 21 years. Earlier in his career, he served in the Clinton administration, and he has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including the Berkeley College of Music, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Obama Foundation.
Today, we get into what WellWithAll does, how they're giving back to the community, and Demond's journey from a trailer in North Carolina to CEO of this incredible company.
Highlights:
- Demond's background (2:21)
- Stories from the White House (3:50)
- Working at a hedge fund (5:58)
- Lessons about investing (8:32)
- The origins of WellWithAll (11:42)
- Health inequities (13:54)
- How WellWithAll has evolved (15:08)
- Getting in with large retailers (17:08)
- Sources of funding (18:57)
- The Obama Foundation (20:19)
- A career in politics? (21:00)
- Demond's mentors (22:14)
- 27th ICR Conference (24:04))
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