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"In the workplace, he likes to be called Harry.
He's a colleague, he's a partner, and so we address him as
Harry," said Chief Executive Alexi Robichaux.
BetterUp, which provides app-based employee coaching and mental
health assistance, said on Tuesday that Harry was appointed as
the company's first chief impact officer.
Robichaux said he met Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, through
a mutual friend in late 2020, and talked about how to encourage
mental wellbeing.
"Through a series of conversations over months, (we) really had
a lot of shared energy and enthusiasm for how it could be really
awesome to find a way to work together and advance the shared
mission," he said.
Harry has spoken publicly about his struggles following the
death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a car crash in 1997 when
he was 12 years old. Earlier this month, his wife, Meghan, told
TV interviewer Oprah Winfrey that her life inside the royal
family had pushed her to the brink of suicide.
As well as being an executive, Prince Harry said in a blog post
that he was also a user of the service. Robichaux said he and
the coach he was paired with are still working together.
As for how much Prince Harry is being paid in his new position,
Robichaux declined to say.
"As a private company, you can imagine we don't disclose
compensation information of any of our folks. But I think it's
fair to say he's deeply invested in the success of BetterUp," he
said.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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