Kristen Saponaro
nThrive
Cheif Marketing Officer
Kristen Saponaro is chief marketing officer for nThrive, responsible for all company marketing and communications strategies and efforts. Additionally, she leads the company’s Enterprise Marketing Council to ensure alignment and successful delivery of all corporate, product and solution marketing efforts. Saponaro brings extensive healthcare and healthcare technology marketing and communications expertise to the role. Kristen believes in the power of the physician-patient relationship and how this connection is central to heathy people and thriving communities.
As vice president of Marketing for Precyse, she successfully led the company’s marketing and communications programs for five years and assumed an expanded role as senior vice president of Marketing and Corporate Communications for the combined MedAssets-Precyse enterprise in early 2016. Prior to joining Precyse, Saponaro was the principal of SaponaroCommunications, LLC, where she served a wide range of clients, including Precyse, Siemens Healthcare, NextGenHealthcare, and the Department of Homeland Security. Before founding Saponaro Communications, she was director of Marketing for Executive Health Resources and Corporate Affairs manager for Siemens Medical Solutions.
Saponaro holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from St. Joseph's University and a Master's degree in congressional studies from The Catholic University of America. She has extensive academic and professional speaker training. She was awarded the prestigious Villiger Speech and Debate Scholarship at St. Joseph University and is a three-time National Forensic Association finalist and National Champion. In addition, Saponaro facilitates and speaks at client facilities and various medical groups.
