Judy Blackwell is the Chief Marketing Officer at Healthgrades, where she has responsibility for the overall Healthgrades brand, product marketing, communications and related strategic growth imperatives. Ms. Blackwell has been a pioneer in the healthcare and technology sectors with a track record for innovation and delivering results. She has served in leadership positions at Bloom Marketing Group, Finelight and WebMD, among others. At WebMD, Ms. Blackwell led product development and marketing for WebMD’s consumer sites which attracted over 60 million unique users per month. Her consumer innovations included WebMD’s second generation consumer community site which, in addition to moderated communities, for the first time enabled members to create their own community destinations. In addition she managed WebMD’s clinical products such as the Symptom Checker, Health Checks and Drug & Vitamin database and was responsible for the overall WebMD.com user experience as well as key cross network initiatives including inventory optimization and SEO.

Ms. Blackwell holds a BA from Duke University, where she graduated Cum Laude with a double major in Economics and French. She received her Master’s degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.