Christopher Carey is a San Francisco-based product executive who runs Calm Health, the clinical arm of the meditation app Calm. As SVP and General Manager, he has turned a consumer sleep-and-meditation brand into an evidence-based mental health platform sold to employers, health plans and providers, now reaching more than 26 million people. He arrived at Calm through its 2022 acquisition of Ripple Health Group and has spent two decades building digital health products at Rally Health and Blue Shield of California before that.
Calm is a San Francisco-based mental wellness company best known for its meditation and sleep app, which pairs guided meditations, celebrity-narrated Sleep Stories, music and soundscapes into a subscription product. Founded in 2012 by Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew, Calm has grown from a simple 'do nothing for two minutes' web experiment into one of the most downloaded wellness apps in the world, expanding into employer benefits (Calm Business) and a clinical mental-health platform (Calm Health) reaching tens of millions of people.