McKesson Ventures has hired Carrie Hurwitz Williams from Omada Heath as principal and taken on Irem Mertol as a director.

McKesson Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of US-based healthcare services and IT provider McKesson Corporation, has hired Carrie Hurwitz Williams as principal and Irem Mertol as a director.

Hurwitz Williams will concentrate on strategic investments in companies developing technology or services that cover consumerism, channel development or retail transformation.

The move to McKesson follows 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry, most recently as vice-president of strategy and business development for digital behavioural medicine developer Omada Health.

Mertol will…