Nicoletta “Nicki” TesslerCo Founder

United States - Miami Beach, Florida

Dr. Nicoletta Tessler is a clinical psychologist and accomplished senior executive with a + 20-year career of repeated success in building and leading cutting-edge behavioral healthcare with a deep understanding of strategy, domain knowledge, and business operations. Nicki is a high-profile thought leader, combining rapid and strategic growth with managing operational and financial demands of a large book of behavioral health business. She is a proven difference-maker with an unwavering sense of purpose and passion to reinvent the field. She is the mother of two fabulous teenage daughters and bullish about modeling audacious goals for them by aiming to position BeMe as the most trusted resource in emotional health for teens.

A few of her career highlights:

== BeMe Health: Secured capital and partnerships with leading Commercial and Medicaid healthcare payers to transform behavioral health for teens. Backed by Flare Capital Partners and Polaris Partners, the funding is used to help accelerate and scale operations around BeMe’s unique tech-enabled approach to teen mental health.

== Universal Health Services (UHS): Built innovation capabilities within Behavioral Health Division by quickly developing structure, The Innovation Hub, which promotes entrepreneurship to rapidly grow business through innovation at speed and urgency, increasing divisional results.

== Hospital Corporation of America (HCA Healthcare): Deployed a centralized Access Response Center (ARC) with telepsychiatry functionality for Florida, which led to ~$2.22M in profit and an additional 556 admissions in first 6 months.

== Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital: Developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Program for Adolescents (DBT-A) through a dedicated service-oriented-architecture, which became recognized as “the model” DBT Center in the U.S. Created DBT app to track target behaviors (actions), thoughts, emotions, and urges, producing a resource transferable into a range of settings, including care of adolescent and PTSD patients.