Jonathan S. Bush

Jonathan S. Bush is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President of athenahealth, a health care technology company founded in 1997. In 2000, Bush raised more than $10M in venture capital funding to support the company. athenahealth launched a successful IPO in 2007.

Before founding athenahealth, Bush served as an associate of J. Bush & Company, Inc, and a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a member of its Managed Care Strategy Group. Bush holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University.

Bush gained notability in 1991, during "Operation Desert Storm," after enlisting as a Combat Medic in the United States Army Reserves, during the first U.S. war with Iraq. His enlistment upheld a Bush family tradition of military service during periods of conflict dating back to World War II. He began Basic Combat Training assigned to Company D, of the 3 Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on Feb. 19, 1991, just four days before the U.S. ground assault began. He served with distinction as a junior enlisted soldier in the rank of Private First Class and as a Squad Leader in his platoon. After graduating Basic Combat Training, he then completed his Military Occupational Speciality qualification training as a Combat Medic at Fort Sam Huston in San Antonio, Texas.

He is the son of Jonathan Bush, making him the first cousin of former U.S. President George W. Bush and the nephew of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.

In 2007, he appeared in the Nova Marathon Challenge. This episode of the PBS series chronicled a group of people from different athletic backgrounds that trained over the course of a year to run in the 2007 Boston Marathon.

External links

• Official athenahealth biography