VMP member Rick Johnson, CEO of VOI Health, was featured in Vermont’s Independent Voice Seven Days article article as one of five of Vermont’s companies “riding Vermont’s Health Tech Sector.”
Read about how this former chief of staff in the Marine Corps Reserve used his experience in investigating suicides of Marines and sailors – and the personal impact of that work – to vow to do what he could to reduce suicides once he retired.
Jerry Ashton walked into Occupy Wall Street in 2011 as a debt collector, and walked out of that experience two years later as a debt forgiver – literally rethinking his profession to co-found RIP Medical Debt in 2014 to reverse the ills caused by that industry. Six years later at the time of his retirement, his charity had successfully abolished over $2.7 billion in unpayable medical debt for over 1,800,000 Americans across the U.S. As of this writing, the total debt abolished is over $5 billion over almost 4 million people.
Jerry founded Let's Rethink This in late 2020 with the intention of seeing that lightning can strike twice. This time as a “B” Corp and not a charity, Jerry and his co-creators intend to bring about $1 billion in social and economic good this time through a unique Searchlight/Spotlight/Ignite model.