Aaron Sheedy

Aaron Sheedy is COO and co-founder of Xealth, a digital health prescribing platform that enables clinicians to easily integrate and prescribe digital health tools for patients from their EHR workflows. Xealth spun out of the Providence health system in 2017. Prior to Xealth, Sheedy was COO of Swype, an innovative touchscreen keyboard which made communication easier, faster and more inclusive. Swype was installed on over one billion smartphones and tablets, and the company was sold to Nuance for over $100 million in 2011. At Nuance, Sheedy led the team that managed the text and voice input technology solutions; customers included Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and other early mobile voice recognition platforms using the company’s speech and text recognition technologies. Sheedy's career began at Microsoft where he helped launch the first version of the Microsoft Network (MSN) and subsequently managed the development and implementation of an international social networking strategy across six key markets for MSN.