Senior housing industry veteran Mike Mutka joins Linked Senior Board of Advisors

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Senior housing industry veteran Mike Mutka joins Linked Senior Board of Advisors

Posted on January 17, 2012

Washington DC, January, 17th 2012: Linked Senior Inc., a next generation technology provider helping senior care leaders improve the quality of life of their residents, announced today the addition of Mike Mutka to its Board of Advisors. Mike currently serves as the COO and President of Silverchair Learning Systems, the leading provider of online education for senior care.

Mr Mutka will help the Linked Senior management team in the development of their sales and marketing strategy for the next 3-5 years, contribute his thinking to streamline operations and bring his perspective and experience in introducing disruptive innovation and the challenges of technology adoption in the senior housing market.

“Linked Senior is a visionary company. They have an exciting product uniquely positioned to positively impact Senior Care. As an Advisory Board member, I look forward to helping them aggressively expand their presence nationally”, states Mike Mutka.

According to Charles De Vilmorin, Linked Senior CEO, “Beyond the pleasure of working with Mike, having him advise our team gives us great confidence in the future of an already very successful product. Mike’s devotion to excellence, customer experience and strategic thinking will play a major role in guiding and mentoring the development of Linked Senior.”

Mike Mutka has been President of Silverchair Learning Systems (SLS) since January 2009. He built the SLS sales and marketing organization from just two people in 2005 to a team of 20+ professionals, with an impressive track record of growth that includes over 8000 buildings and 500,000 users, taking more than 7 million courses a year nationwide. Prior to joining SLS in 2005, Mr. Mutka had a 15 year track record of success within the Hill-Rom Company, Berchtold Corporation, and Briggs Corporation,all leaders in their market spaces. He has extensive experience in new product development, field and corporate account sales and marketing management, strategic planning, Kaizen continuous improvement methodology and general management. He earned his Bachelors in Business and an MBA in Marketing from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Headquartered in Washington DC, Linked Senior Inc. is one of the leading providers of technology solutions for wellness and programming for the senior housing market.  Its vision is to enhance the quality of life in senior communities through better access to information, entertainment, education, and therapy.  The service opens communities to the world while helping management improve their programming, productivity and efficiencies.

Linked Senior uses simple technology to support wellness in a social, interactive, meaningful and engaging way. The system includes a touch screen and content tailored for seniors. Some of the features included are games, puzzles, visual experiences for reminiscence, brain fitness, educational and therapy tools. More information can be found here: www.linkedsenior.com.