Jeffrey Todd Arnold is an American Internet entrepreneur and executive. Currently, he is Chairman and CEO of

Sharecare Sharecare is an Atlanta, Georgia-based health and wellness company that provides consumers with personalized health-related information, programs, and resources. It provides personalized information to the site's users based on their responses to ...

, a health and wellness engagement platform that provides users with personal health tools.

Professional career

In 1998, Arnold founded

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, a health care company that provides consumers, health institutions, and physicians with medical information through the Internet. After leaving WebMD, Arnold started a number of companies. In 2001, he formed The Convex Group, a

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. A year later, Convex acquired

HowStuffWorks HowStuffWorks is an American commercial infotainment website founded by professor and author Marshall Brain, to provide its target audience an insight into the way many things work. The site uses various media to explain complex concepts, termin ...

, an online how-to resource. Arnold served as chairman and CEO. In 2003, Arnold started LidRock, which produced promotional miniature CDs attached to the lids of fountain drinks sold at select businesses. LidRock CDs were placed in between two lids, with the top one peeled away to obtain the disc. Arnold purchased 19 patents from various companies in order to produce the LidRock concept. The CDs were typically sold at fast-food restaurants and movie theaters, and generally were used to promote new video games or music from singers such as Britney Spears. More than 10 million LidRocks had been sold as of 2004, and more than 30 million as of 2005. In 2004, Arnold purchased

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, a Los Angeles-based company, along with its patents for disposable DVDs. In 2007, he sold HowStuffWorks to

Discovery Communications Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Chan ...

, where he worked as Chief Digital Strategy Officer. Arnold co-founded

in 2010 with Dr.

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in partnership with

Harpo Productions Harpo Productions (or Harpo Studios) is an American multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey and based in West Hollywood, California. It is the sole subsidiary of her media and entertainment company Harpo, Inc. The name "Harpo" is ...

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, and

. Since co-founding Sharecare, he has acquired 11 companies, including RealAge and PKC in 2012, BACTES in 2013, and HealthWays and BioLucid in 2016. Arnold is currently the Chairman of

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(formerly Mobil Travel Guide).

Awards

* Entrepreneur of the Year, Southeast Region by

Ernst & Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewat ...

. (1999) * Inducted into the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia. (2013) * Blumenthal Award by

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

in recognition of his ability to bridge business and technology.(2013) * Technology Association of Georgia Icons of the Industry’ Award (2016). * Lifetime Achievement Award from the Atlanta chapter of TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) (2016) * innovation category in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Health Care Heroes (2016 ).

References

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