Flemington, NJ - August 6, 2024 - CareLink360 today announced that Bart Oates, JD and Matthew Riccio Ph.D., veteran health, wellness and innovation, executives will join its Board of Advisors effective August 6. The additions to the CareLink360 Advisory Board, are well-respected senior executives with deep experience in the health and wellness industry through customer-facing and business-to-business companies and will assist CareLink360 in building out and scaling their global health and wellness solutions and eco-system for aging adults, family caregivers, families, healthcare professionals and care-teams.  

“We are honored to welcome Bart Oates and Matt Riccio to the CareLink360 Advisory Board,” said David Duplay, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, CareLink360. “Their collective extensive backgrounds, including roles at high-profile, global consumer firms along with innovative health-technology, AgeTech, and healthcare insights solution companies, brings a welcome strategic and operational perspective as we continue to focus on expanding our global reach to Change The Way The World Ages,” added Duplay.

"CareLink360 addresses a growing need in an important and growing market that is too often neglected. The CareLink360 Digital Health Companion™ allows for greater family connections, deeper health outcome insights, the tracking of important health and wellness metrics, and an enhanced peace of mind to families and extended care teams," said Mr, Oates, JD.

“I am honored to join the CareLink360 Board, and excited by the opportunity to work with such an extraordinarily talented team. CareLink360 provides a very simple way to deliver invaluable solutions to a vulnerable population. Their Dynamic Care Plan™ encompasses a wide range of solutions including Virtual Social Therapy, Health and Wellness education, medication reminders, cognitive and physical fitness tools, and valuable health data analytics," said Mr. Riccio, Ph.D.

"Joining CareLink360’s Advisory Board aligns with my passion for advancing aging, helping others and providing family caregivers with practical solutions. I believe CareLink's innovative approach has the potential to revolutionize not only senior care but care for those challenged with cognitive impairments by fostering connection and wellness. Together, we're set to redefine the landscape of aging, cognitive health and caregiving,” added Mr. Oates.

About CareLink360

At CareLink360, our mission is Change The Way The World Ages by being the global leader in assisting our clients to deliver high-quality, person-and-patient centered care across the care continuum; through our integrated, patented, and easy to use Digital Health Companion. We strive to mitigate the global epidemic of isolation and loneliness which affects people of all ages, races, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The current competitive landscape consists of browser and web-based applications which require a base knowledge of user technology. The CareLink360 Digital Health Companion, is currently the single device in the market that was designed from the ground up to accommodate non-technical users and is protected under four US patents.

About Bart Oates, JD

Bart Oates is currently Executive Director of CIT International, the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program, a community partnership of law enforcement, mental health and addiction professionals and individuals who live with mental illness and/or addiction disorders, their families, and other partners to improve community responses to mental health crises. Prior to his Executive Director position at CIT International, Bart was President of the National Football League (NFL) Alumni Association advocating for former players to address issues that affect members as a result of being a professional athlete.

Prior to his role with the NFL Alumni Association, Bart spent 14 years playing in the NFL for the NY Giants and San Francisco 49ers.

About Matthew Riccio, Ph.D.

Matthew T. Riccio, MA, MPhil, PhD, is an expertly trained statistician, social psychologist and behavior-change researcher with more than fifteen years of combined research (UI/UX, quantitative/qualitative), data analytics, lab, and project management experience in private, public, industry and academic settings.

A former National Science Foundation (NSF) research fellow and faculty member at both New York and Columbia University, Matt specializes in both passive and behavioral measurement/data capture as well as the applied use of LLMs, ML, AI and advanced analytics for actionable insights and recommendations.

Matt’s areas of expertise include experimental design and research management; collecting and working with qualitative and quantitative data; using intensive and longitudinal research methods; aggregating, transforming and visualizing data; advanced statistical analyses and modeling; and delivering data-driven actionable insights, recommendations, and interventions.

His work has been published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, European Health Psychologist, International Journal of Psychology, European Health Psychologist, Motivation and Emotion, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and more. His work has also received extensive representative media coverage in Yahoo! Health, Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, Refinery 29, MSN, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, SELF Magazine, Huffington Post, and TEDxNewYork, among others.

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