Rick Abelmann Joins HealthTechApps, Inc. as CFO

SILICON VALLEY, Calif. - Oct. 2, 2016 - PRLog -- As HealthTechApps, Inc. Chief Financial Officer, Rick Abelmann leads investor relations, intellectual property and patent strategy development, and operational excellence initiatives to rapidly scale. Rick also serves on the product design and talent recruitment teams for HealthTechApps, Inc.

Rick is a serial entrepreneur. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rick has been a lifelong tech enthusiast.  After studying economics at Brigham Young University, Rick obtained a JD from Washington University School of Law.  He worked for a global law firm and investment bank in Hong Kong before relocating with his family to Hawaii in 2008.

Rick started his entrepreneurship early in life, selling golf balls out of his backyard to weekend duffers.  Through college he arbitraged retail products through eBay, and in law school Rick founded a nonprofit focused on strengthening elementary education in the Philippines.  In 2009, Rick started and grew a law firm specializing in consumer bankruptcy and financial resolution, where he assisted thousands of people in financial distress throughout the State of Hawaii.  In 2014, he co-founded Pineapple Palaka, a luxury Hawaii-themed necktie company with products Nordstrom and in hotel gift shops.

Rick's joy comes from spending time with his wife, Alicia, and three children in and around Hawaii's naturally beautiful oceans, beaches, and mountain trails.

HealthTechApps, inc. creates technologies that make better health easier to achieve for people everywhere.  We focus on creating apps to help people with brain injuries and illnesses.

HealthTechApps, Inc. is commercializing Reboot, a mobile and wearable technology platform, to help athletes and their physicians monitor and manage a sports concussion by capturing smart data from short, selfie videos. Our patent technology leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing as a key component of Reboot.  We have tested our Reboot prototype with hundreds of high school football players in California and Hawaii and 92% of the players said they will use it to monitor and manage their concussion.

Our HealthTechApps team also partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an app to help warfighters with combat traumatic brain injuries engage in cognitive rehab exercises using their mobile devices.

Learn more at http://www.healthtechapps.com