Aaron Sheedy
September 12, 2022 / Share:
Aaron Sheedy
COO & Co-Founder
Aaron Sheedy is Chief Operating Officer of Xealth, where he applies his knowledge of running
successful technology companies serving various sectors to delivering new technology solutions
to health care providers.
Prior to Xealth, Sheedy was COO of Swype, up until the company’s sale to Nuance. At Nuance,
Sheedy led a $300m P&L for the mobile channel, including 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 has more than 20 years of experience in the consumer technology industry, with roles
with North Carolina technology incubator Concert, VeriSign’s media and entertainment
consulting practice, Oasys Mobile where he created solutions to deliver mobile content to
customers, and Digeo Inc. managing the Basic iTV product, a suite of interactive channels that
reached two million cable customers. In the late 1990s, he was General Manager of ZIVO New
Zealand where he established the company’s first international offices and successfully
negotiated a key acquisition creating New Zealand’s largest internet development group.
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.
Sheedy is a graduate of the University of Washington.