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Oren Frank

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Talkspace

Oren Frank is an Israel native and is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Talkspace, an online therapy platform making therapy accessible and affordable to all. Prior to co-founding Talkspace, Frank worked for various subsidiaries of McCann Worldgroup, a global marketing service organization. From November 2001 to November 2007, Frank was employed at McCann Erickson. He started as the regional creative director EMEA in London, UK; then in 2003 he was promoted to CEO of Worldgroup Israel, in which he relocated to Tel Aviv, Israel. During his time as CEO, from January 2005 to November 2007, Frank served as a chairman for McCann Digital in Tel Aviv as well. In 2008, Frank left Israel to take on the position as global chief creative officer for MRM Worldwide in New York City. Frank remained with the company until April 2011. Huffpost is an American news and opinion website and blog, with localized and national news. Frank’s contributions included articles such as: I Am Beyond Death, The Destroyer of Worlds (November 2017), Social Media Will Soon Become the New Cigarettes (August 2017), How to Turn an Apple Believer to Android in Ten Minutes or Less (October 2013), It Turns Out the GOP Did Win the Election – In Israel (May 2013), The Digital Revolution is Over… Or Not (May 2013), F.R.E.U.D.: Fetal Reconstructive Emotional Unalienable Deity (April 2013), and Therapeutic Conversations: A Shameless Future for Mental Health (January 2013). The Marker is a Hebrew-language daily business newspaper published by the Haaretx group in Israel. Frank has written for the newspaper since 2012 when he first published Bye Bye Miss American Pie in October 2012. Since then he has published twenty-nine more articles, including: Rewriting the Bible (October 2012), Obama And The Statistics Won The Voodoo (November 2012), In The Exile Of The Twitter Was Nanomach (November 2012), The Adventures Of The Chef, The Tycoon And The Renovator (December 2012), The Vegas Casino Always Wins (January 2013), The Shakshuka Paradigm (January 2013), Jango Without Cables (February 2013), A Startup For Every Worker (February 2013), The Old-New American Dream (March 2013), On Which Bus Was Rosa Parks Traveling In Israel (April 2013), Frankenstein Returns As A Securities Trader (April 2013), Look at Sir Isaac, The Apple Has Fallen (April 2013), The Robot That Will Have Us From IKEA (May 2013), The Cry Of The Media Purchaser (May 2013), How I Became The Proud Owner Of Half A Pig And Half A Cow (June 2013), State Of New York Against 50 Million Tourists (July 2013), The Wandering Circus Of The American Media (July 2013), We Are The Star Writers (July 2013), How I Became An Android (August 2013), In a sense, My Name Yair Lapid (October 2013), How Many Extra People Are In The World (February 2014), The New Yorker is | 99% And We Have No Idea What To Do (February 2014), The New Yorker | Answer Is 42 (March 2014), The New Yorker | An Open Account (June 2014), The New Yorker | 500 The Poor (June 2014), New Yorker | Goldman Sachs Stadivarius (July 2014), and Real Estate | Build Your Own Home, In Allen Town (October 2014). (*Posts from this site were translated from Hebrew to English.) Ad Age a global media brand publishing analysis, news and data on marketing and media. Frank wrote for the online site in 2010 and 2011. His publications included: Goodbye, Smartphone; Hello, Predictive Contact Device (May 2010), Think Technology Will Bring You Closer to the Consumer? Think Again (June 2010), Why Your Credit Card Will Soon Follow the Audio CD (June 2010), Why Data Visualization Is About to Become Very Important for Your Brand (August 2010), How Coca-Cola Could Bring Pop Appeal Back to MySpace (August 2010), Happy 40th Birthday to Intel’s 4004, the Chip That Made the World Digital (January 2011), and Modern Brands Need to Become Media-Applications (and Forget Media) (February 2013). In 2012, Oren Frank and wife Roni Frank started Talkspace. After attending therapy early in their marriage, they both recognized the benefits therapy can have for couples. However, they also acknowledged the challenges many couples would face trying to attend therapy sessions – specifically related to the time commitment it takes, as well as the financial obligation. Therefore, they developed the concept for Talkspace. As an avid believer in the power of innovation to better society, Frank started Talkspace with the vision to make psychotherapy accessible and affordable for a billion people in need around the world. He partnered with Irvin D. Yalom, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry of Stanford University, and Dr. Andrew Sekel, Ph.D.; both who today act as advisors for the website. In 2016, Linda Sacco, LCSW, Ph.D. was added to the team as the vice president of behavior health. Then in 2018 the most recent team member, Neil Leibowitze, MD, FD, joined Talkspace as its chief medical officer. Together, the team has established Talkspace – a B2C company that has developed “Unlimited Messaging Therapy,” a new modality that removes all the major barriers to entry for outpatient mental health. Today, Frank Oren continues to work as CEO for Talkspace and resides in New York City with family.

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About Talkspace: Talkspace is an online therapy startup that offers confidential therapy with a network of licensed therapists.

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