Thursday, October 22, 2015

Arivale Names BlueKai Co-Founder Ries As Exec

Seattle-based wellness software developer Arivale announced this morning that it has named Grant Ries, the co-founder of BlueKai, as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Ries had most recently been serving as Vice President in Oracle's Data Cloud business, which had acquired BlueKai last year. Arivale says it is develnig a new "scientific wellness" sector which uses personalized data and coashing to help people optimize their wellness and avoid disease. Arivale is venture backed by ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris Partners, and Maveron, and was started by genomics pioneer Leroy Hood; Arivale is led by CEO Clayton Lewis.