# Lennie Sliwinski

> Lennie Sliwinski is the co-founder and CEO of Trusted Health (Trusted, Inc.), a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company he launched in 2017. Inspired by watching his mother navigate the chaos of nursing staffing, he built the leading labor marketplace and workforce management platform for healthcare professionals, growing the platform to over half a million nurse profiles and partnerships with hospitals in all 50 states. With $234M raised across three funding rounds, Trusted went from digitizing the travel nursing placement process to launching Works - a full enterprise workforce OS for health systems. Before Trusted, Sliwinski cut his teeth as a Cornell-trained lawyer who never practiced law, a performance marketer at Adlucent, and Director of Marketing at Hired in San Francisco.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Trusted Health (Trusted, Inc.)
- **Organizations:** Trusted Health (Trusted, Inc.), Hired, Adlucent, CabMe, Inc.
- **From:** Youngstown, Ohio, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Business Administration, Bowling Green State University, J.D. (concentration in Business Law and Regulation), Cornell Law School
- **Known for:** Raised $234M total funding across Seed, Series A ($20M), Series B ($55M), and Series C ($94M), Built marketplace with 500,000+ nurse profiles partnering with 1,500+ hospitals in all 50 states, Named to Staffing Industry Analysts 40 Under 40 list (2019)

## Career timeline

- **2011-2012** — Co-founded CabMe, Inc., a location-based app startup
- **2011-2013** — Performance Marketing Account Manager II at Adlucent, Austin, TX
- **2014-2017** — Director of Marketing at Hired, San Francisco - managed $30M budget across 17 markets, acquiring 15,000+ job seekers weekly
- **2017** — Co-founded Trusted Health with Matt Pierce to build a digital labor marketplace for nurses
- **2019** — Raised $20M Series A; recognized on Staffing Industry Analysts 40 Under 40 list; platform registering 1,000 nurses/week
- **2020** — Raised $55M Series B led by Craft Ventures and Felicis Ventures
- **2021-11** — Raised $94M Series C led by Greenspring Associates; launched Works enterprise workforce management platform
- **2023** — Appointed Kate Kline as President and Sue Nallapeta as CTO, building 80% women senior leadership team
- **2024** — Integrated Google DeepMind's Gemini 1.5 AI; Works featured in KLAS Emerging Company Spotlight Report

## Achievements

- Raised $234M total funding across Seed, Series A ($20M), Series B ($55M), and Series C ($94M)
- Built marketplace with 500,000+ nurse profiles partnering with 1,500+ hospitals in all 50 states
- Named to Staffing Industry Analysts 40 Under 40 list (2019)
- Launched Works - an enterprise healthcare workforce management OS deployed by health systems including Mercy
- Integrated Google DeepMind's Gemini 1.5 AI into the staffing platform
- Built a senior leadership team that is 80% women
- Works featured in KLAS Research Emerging Company Spotlight Report (October 2024)
- Completely digitalized nurse placement, eliminating commissioned recruiters and opaque pay structures

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Works platform featured by KLAS Research in Emerging Company Spotlight Report for reducing clinician burnout
- **2024-08** — Works reports steady growth since 2021 launch per BusinessWire
- **2024-02** — Sliwinski comments on nurse retention and work/life balance as key healthcare system challenges
- **2023-03** — Appointed Sue Nallapeta as CTO
- **2023-01** — Appointed Kate Kline (former ZocDoc executive) as President

## Links

- Website: http://lenniesliwinski.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenniesliwinski/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Lennie_S
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lennies_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lennie.sliwinski

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Last updated: 2026-05-25