Aaron Lawlor is a healthcare and health tech HR executive with extensive experience leading people strategy across complex publicly traded and non-profit organizations.

He has a proven track record of building and scaling HR functions in startup, scale-up, transformation, and unionized environments across multiple sites, states, and countries.

Aaron currently serves as the Vice President of People, U.S. for Kooth Digital Health, a publicly-traded digital mental health company based in the UK and expanding in the U.S. through a $188 million contract with the State of California, as well as pilots with the States of Michigan and New Jersey. He leads the U.S. enterprise People function, including supporting employees across 36 states, and Talent Management for the U.S. and U.K. 

Prior to Howard Brown, Aaron served as the chief elected official of Illinois' third-largest county, where he oversaw the county's $440 million budget and administration, including compensation and benefits for the County’s more than 2,000 employees, risk management, and labor relations with the County’s 11 bargaining units.

Aaron holds a Bachelor of Arts from Lake Forest College and a Master of Business Administration from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.  He is an alum of the Wharton School's Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Program. Aaron holds three HR certifications SHRM-CP, PHR, and SHRM-CA (California HR) and has completed certificate programs in compensation studies, U.K. employment law, U.S. labor relations, and U.S. workplace investigations. 

Aaron’s proudest accomplishment is his sobriety and his work to help others who struggle with addiction.