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Spotlight Client of the Month CREATING A CULTURE OF HEALTH IS A JOURNE discovery! optimize! results ! environment impact leadership rewards individual coaching engagement insight analytics Discovery Leads to Vision Vision Leads to Reality Reality Leads to Value business culture www.vivowise.com Jeremy A. Harris Corporate Biography Vivo Health Solutions, LLC. Founder and President By 2001, Jeremy had a successful track record with helping companies grow through marketing strategy, sales, process design and management and was offered a National Sales Consultant position at Rockland Technology group, where he used his passion for sales and his relationship building skills to quickly advance to a Sales Director position. Responsible for sales strategy, marketing, lead generation, sales management, and implementation, he was a true leader for the company. Exceeding his sales goals every single month since the starting the with the company, Jeremy worked diligently to close the largest deal in the company’s 11year history, effectively catapulting Rockland Technology to become the second fastest growing technology company in the region. With Jeremy’s hard work and determination for success, the company sustained a 232% growth increase for the year 2002. It was during this time that Jeremy crossed paths with an opportunity that would fuel his entrepreneurial spirit. In 2004, Jasmine Aston, MS, CWP Corporate Biography Vivo Health Solutions, LLC Partner and Chief Operating Officer Jasmine Aston is a proven professional in multiple disciplines including corporate culture and worksite employee health, organizational behavior, behavior change, employee wellness program design, cross functional business unit strategy/process development, change management, and leadership development. Jasmine comes to Vivo with extensive experience in the fast paced world of corporate health management. Prior to Vivo, she served as Population Health Management Consultant for a top five national employee benefits consulting firm where she consulted numerous employers to help meet their varying and evolving health management needs, by applying behavioral change theories in the organizational setting, to address the modifiable health care costs and trends impacting organizations’ bottom lines, specific to their readiness and culture. Mr. Harris signed an agreement to become a multi-unit franchisee of a national pizza chain, Little Caesars Pizza. This is where he was able to use the skills that he had gained from his previous career, and his ultimate passion for success. As the Owner and Operator of Harris Food Services, LLC. , Jeremy was responsible for everything from territory planning and site development, General Contracting all new site builds, to daily operations and inventory controls. By the time these units were sold in 2010, they had become some of the most successful and profitable locations in Texas and were ranked number 2 and 4 based on sales volume and operations. Even though Jeremy had found himself extremely successful in the restaurant industry, he knew in his heart it was not his passion; health and fitness was his true love and has been since the young age of 14. In May of 2010, Jeremy signed a 25location territory agreement with a national fitness concept, which was relatively new. With Jeremy’s entrepreneurial vision and drive for growth and success, Mr. Harris’ locations quickly became the fastest growing, most profitable stores in the entire country, earning him the title of Developer of the Year for 2010, 2011 and 2012, and rewarding him at a corporate level for the “Most Lives Changed” for all three of those years. Jeremy was Prior to that role, she worked for a national corporate wellness company based out of Dallas, Texas, where she played an integral role in assessing, managing and overseeing the development of various organizational process improvement needs to facilitate long-term organizational development and success. Jasmine earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and her Master of Science degree in Executive Coaching and Organizational Behavior from the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) through the National Wellness Institute as well as a current and active Faculty status member of the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA), and holds five certifications through the organization. As Chief Operating Officer, Jasmine Aston provides strategic oversight and direction of all the day-to-day operations of the Vivo organization. She leads with firm belief in continuous improvement for the organization as a whole and for each individual on the team. She ensures the service delivered by Vivo is forward thinking, customer focused and value driven to foster long term, meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with our clients.