Cary, NC, March 10, 2022 – The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME) is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Aiello as Director of Business Development. Chris will manage the corporate strategic and organizational marketing and customer relationship activities for current and potential public and private sector clients.

Chris previously served as Principal at SEA HO, LLC in Cary, NC, where he managed and developed/evolved business planning for the company’s asset portfolio and growth. His prior roles include Senior Sales Consultant at Wolters Kluwer, Legal and Regulatory in New York, NY; Director of Business Development at Highwire Press in Los Gatos, CA; National Sales and Business Development Director and Regional Sales Director at Elsevier in Philadelphia, PA; Director of Sales and Business Development at ClearTXT in Raleigh, NC; Vice President of Sales at Fiserv/RegEd in Mooresville, NC; Co-founder of Silverchair Learning Systems in Charlottesville, VA; Senior Director of Sales at HealthStream in Nashville, TN; and National Sales Manager at ELM Oncology Services in Rockville, MD. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management and Marketing from Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA.

“Chris brings to CCME a wealth of knowledge and success in business growth,” said Steven Martin, president and CEO for CCME. “I am excited for what lies ahead in CCME’s portfolio expansion as he collectively works with our internal teams and clients on opportunities and advancement of programs to improve health care services.”

About The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence: Founded by physicians in 1983, CCME is an independent, non-profit health care consultancy and Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), headquartered in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. CCME offers an array of quality improvement, clinical review, audit, technical, and consulting services and solutions by External Quality Review, Fraud Waste and Abuse Services, and Utilization Management to improve health care delivery, system performance, and patient outcomes. Through various contracts, CCME serves the public sector and improves quality for Medicaid and Medicare communities. For more information about CCME, please visit www.thecarolinascenter.org.