Leadership
Heather Cook
Managing DirectorHeather is the Managing Director of Ripple Publishing, bringing over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of health systems, policy and digital innovation. She began her career at a leading consultancy focused on large-scale health reform, before moving into national transformation roles and later co-building digital health ventures from early-stage development through to NHS-commissioned services.
This combination of experience has given her a rare, end-to-end perspective - from system design and policy intent, through to the realities of commissioning, procurement and real-world adoption. She has seen first-hand how and where progress breaks down, both for innovators trying to scale and for health systems trying to adopt effectively.
Heather is an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow, an elected member of the health and social care council at techUK, and an elected Director at the same organisation, and a Trustee of a national charity. She brings to Ripple deep practical expertise in commissioning models, integrated care delivery and the structural barriers to scaling innovation - and is now focused on building a new approach to how digital health reaches patients at scale.
Leon Young
Executive ChairmanLeon is the Executive Chairman of Ripple Publishing and the founding CEO of Cogniss, the specialised no-code platform for digital health. A serial entrepreneur and a pioneer of the no-code technology movement, he co-founded Nocode Inc in the 1990s before going on to co-found the agency 2and2, specialising in the application of psychology to the design of digital solutions for behaviour change. It was through this work and later through years of building Cogniss that Leon saw the same pattern repeat: clinicians and researchers could build valuable digital health products, but no infrastructure existed to get them adopted by health systems and into the hands of patients. He took radical ownership of that gap and founded Ripple Publishing, a digital health publisher designed to bridge it at scale.