Jay Podence

As Senior Vice President of Commercial Partnerships at Aetion, Jay brings over 25 years of deep domain expertise in life sciences, executive leadership and channel development experience.

Before joining Aetion, Jay was Head of Enterprise Technology Partnerships at Datavant, managing strategic channel sales with key cloud providers such as AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake. At ixlayer, a Diagnostics Testing as a Service platform, Jay was Vice President of Partner Ecosystem, building a strong network of clinical laboratories, clinical networks, kitting and logistics providers, and patient engagement technology vendors.

Previously, Jay served as Regional Vice President at Salesforce, where he developed a data-driven approach and led a team tasked with identifying and recruiting high-potential partners, expanding their Healthcare and Life Sciences ecosystem with value added ISV and OEM partners.