Bay View Middle School won a national Physical Education contest sponsored by adidas and Interactive Health Technologies (IHT), competing against over 15,000 students from across the country. Students participated in a nationwide 30-day heart rate challenge, collectively burning over 61,656,391 calories and spending 2,452,960 minutes in moderate-to-vigorous-physical-activity in their target heart rate zone.
On March 6th, CEO Ben Bentzin and President Jen Ohlson presented at the American Heart Association’s Health Science Innovation • Investment Forum in New York City for the final round of the AHA’s 2020 Innovation Challenge. The IHT Spirit System was awarded first place, topping hundreds of technology company’s from across the country as the best new innovation addressing the AHA mission of building healthier lives and the AHA 2020 goal “to improve the cardiovascular health of Americans by 20 percent and reduce the number of heart-disease related deaths by 20 percent by the year 2020”.
AUSTIN, TX, March 5, 2015 — Interactive Health Technologies (IHT), an Austin-based company whose “Spirit System” is transforming physical education through the use of technology, proudly welcomes John Saville from to the team.
John brings his seasoned and accomplished sales and managerial experience to IHT with the overall responsibility for directing our West and Northeast sales efforts, as well as overseeing our international growth, best practices and customer service levels.