Jonathan S. Bush

Who is Jonathan S. Bush?

Jonathan S. Bush is the co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President of athenahealth, a Watertown, Massachusetts-based health care technology company founded in 1997.

In 2000, Bush raised more than $10M in venture capital funding to support athenahealth, which 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 attended Boston University for 1 year, for the 1988-89 academic year. Bush holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University. In 1991, during "Operation Desert Storm", Bush served as a Combat Medic in the rank of Private First Class. He is the son of Jonathan Bush, cousin of former U.S. President George W. Bush, nephew of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and brother of television presenter Billy Bush. In 2007, he appeared in the Nova Marathon Challenge. The episode chronicled a group of people from different athletic backgrounds who trained over the course of a year to run in the 2007 Boston Marathon.