Experienced Healthcare Information Technology Specialist Joins Leading Pharmaceutical IT Company
TAMPA, FL / ACCESS Newswire / July 15, 2026 / Wellgistics Health, Inc. (the "Company" or "Wellgistics") (NASDAQ:WGRX), a Health IT leader, integrating pharmacy dispensing AI platform EinsteinRx™ into patented pharmacy smart contracts platform PharmacyChain™, today announced that it appointed healthcare information technology executive Brett Thompson as the Company's consulting Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Mr. Thompson has more than thirty years of experience designing, developing, and leading enterprise software solutions, including more than seventeen years focused on healthcare and pharmacy technology. Throughout his career, he has structured and delivered commercial software products and technology platforms sold to independent pharmacies, regional pharmacy organizations, large retail pharmacy environments, healthcare providers, higher education institutions, government agencies, and other regulated organizations throughout the United States and Canada. His experience spans commercial software products, connected medical devices, enterprise software architecture, cloud-native platforms, healthcare interoperability, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, enterprise systems integration, enterprise data platforms, and scalable enterprise systems serving highly regulated industries throughout North America. Concurrent with this announcement, the Company announced that Srini Kalla has stepped down from the role of CTO of Wellgistics Health.
"I am excited to bring the breadth of my experiences to Wellgistics Health as it transitions to become DataMeds AI," said Brett Thompson, newly appointed Chief Technology Officer at Wellgistics Health. "The scope of what DataMeds is putting together is incredibly exciting, especially given that the pending expansion of the Company's license with DataVault AI provides a unique healthcare data moat being established with the use of patient-centric blockchain solution that provides a way for patients to participate in the healthcare data transaction revenue. This is a unique positioning that has the potential to disrupt healthcare data markets as we know them today."
Brett Thompson is the Founder and President of Pivcon, Inc., a technology consulting, software engineering, and executive technology leadership firm providing enterprise software architecture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, healthcare technology, cybersecurity, and technology leadership services to highly regulated industries. His experience includes the design and implementation of numerous integrations with pharmacy management systems, electronic medical record (EMR) systems, payment processors, e-commerce platforms, shipping and logistics providers, authentication and identity platforms, public- and customer-facing APIs, enterprise data warehouses, and other enterprise business systems. He has extensive experience with healthcare interoperability standards including FHIR, HL7, EDI, and SureScripts, as well as designing and implementing security and compliance controls aligned with HIPAA, SOC 2 readiness, PIPEDA, and ISO/IEC 27001. Beyond pharmacy and medical device technology, Mr. Thompson also has led the development of mobile applications, large-scale workflow automation platforms, and regulatory compliance systems supporting healthcare organizations and other regulated industries. Mr. Thompson has also supported a multi-year federal government contract, providing software engineering, architecture, technical leadership and development of key software components.