Jim Heising

Chief Technology Officer at eMed

Greater Kennewick Area, United States

About Jim Heising

Jim Heising is Chief Technology Officer at eMed. Location: Greater Kennewick Area, United States.

Technology executive with a track record of building and exiting category-defining companies. I co-founded a NASDAQ IPO (Click Commerce), helped build what became Windows Defender, and as CTO of Spot Pet Insurance led a lean engineering team to a a billion-dollar exit. My approach is simple: small, senior teams armed with strong automation and AI — fewer people, lower cost, faster results, less to break. Output scales with leverage, not headcount. Companies bring me in for three situations: technology buckling under sudden growth, engineering costs that have outrun the business, or aging systems that need to become AI-ready assets before the next sale or raise.

Skills

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Technical Leadership
  • Agentic Automation

Additional experience

  • Advisor

    eMed

    October 2022 – May 2026