Rory Nellis

Chief Commercial Officer, AirStrip

Having spent over a decade in health IT, Rory has established himself as a visionary commercial leader where he has contributed to the significant growth of medical device manufacturers and innovative software companies.  

Prior to joining AirStrip, Rory was a Commercial Director of Sales for GE Healthcare, where he led Product Sales Specialists, Account Executives and Clinical Sales Specialists for the overall strategic growth of GE Healthcare’s Patient Monitoring, Diagnostic Cardiology, and Clinical Informatics portfolio. His healthcare business acumen, commercial leadership, and ability to execute through teams helped GE establish themselves as a market leader in patient monitoring and as a major distributor of AirStrip, Mobile Heartbeat CC&C, and Ascom secondary alarm management solutions.  

Rory was previously with The Advisory Board, where he consulted with executive hospital leadership regarding industry trends and best practices for the Cardiology, Imaging and Oncology service lines. Prior to The Advisory Board, Rory was a part of the early growth in Electronic Health Record software with McKesson due to the Affordable Care Act’s Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) reform policy.  At McKesson, Rory was a high performing individual contributor which led to significant growth for the business.  During this time, he also led the Southeast channel business providing leadership, solution expertise and clinical consulting for over 150 value added resellers.

Rory earned a Bachelor of Science in Selling and Sales Management with a minor in Organizational Leadership & Supervision from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.  He is also certified in multiple sales methodologies and is a graduate of GE Croton­­­ville for Influential Leadership & Innovation.