Leadership
ThreeFlow
Individuals
Sach Jain
Co-founder & CEO
Carrum Health
Kevin Kobielski
President & CEO
AlignRx Consulting
Jeremy McLendon
VP
MyHealthily
Ryan Sachtjen
Co-founder & CEO
ThreeFlow
Organizations
Jeremy McLendon
Colleagues say Jeremy McLendon is the heart of the
company culture at MyHealthily and the reason team
members are able to excel in their positions. McLendon
leads by example, taking on projects and assisting teams
through every step of the process. He encourages
employees to try new things with confidence and without
fear of failure. McLendon brings two decades of health insurance industry experience to his role, where he stays up to date on the most recent insurance trends and regulations and seeks opportunities for the company. He has assisted in closing and working with all of the firm’s brokers and has created custom contracts, when needed, to ensure the platform works for brokers and their clients. He is the first to test platform changes and has been known to send midnight emails correcting items before a launch. Among his greatest professional achievements was joining a panel of experts for a discussion at the BenefitsPRO Broker Expo this year, his first on a national stage.
VP
MyHealthily
Known as a pharmacy benefits visionary, Kevin Kobielski
founded AlignRx Consulting and has grown the company
to more than 20 team members over the past four years.
AlignRx partners with benefits brokers, employer groups,
TPAs and health plans to offer pharmacy consulting
solutions that improve performance, drive savings and
deliver better pharmacy benefit outcomes. Kobielski brings nearly 25 years of experience to the firm, including as general manager of pharmacy benefits management at HealthNow New York, where he managed a team of clinical resources, operations personnel and account managers responsible for over $600 million in medical and pharmacy spending. Kobielski’s creativity and expertise generate savings of up to 40% without compromising care. In one case, he negotiated improvements to PBM contract language for a county government with more than 1,300 members that resulted in savings of $1.1 million over three years, reducing their overall pharmacy benefit costs by 37%.
President & CEO
AlignRx Consulting
Kevin Kobielski
ThreeFlow, founded by Ryan Sachtjen, has built a
collaboration software that connects the three parties
involved in making deals happen: employers, benefits
brokers and carriers. While working at Sun Life Financial
prior to building ThreeFlow, Sachtjen noticed that the
benefits space was often underserved by technology
and frequently also bogged down in manual processes and disjointed systems. As a result, Sachtjen established a new category of software with benefits placement system (BPS) ThreeFlow, which enables benefits brokers and insurance carriers to maintain their relationships and enhance collaborative efforts to help employers make the best benefit decisions for their employees. Under his leadership, premium transaction volume doubled last year to over $600 million, bringing total premium under management to nearly $1 billion. ThreeFlow now has more than 200 broker locations representing 12,000 employer clients, and more than 85% of new broker leads come from existing client referrals.
Co-founder & CEO
ThreeFlow
Ryan Sachtjen
Disillusioned with the fee-for-service health care system, Sach Jain leveraged his technology...
Known as a pharmacy benefits visionary, Kevin Kobielski founded AlignRx Consulting and has...
Colleagues say Jeremy McLendon is the heart of the company culture at MyHealthily and the reason...
ThreeFlow, founded by Ryan Sachtjen, has built a collaboration software that connects the three...
Design by Chris Nicholls
Stacey Babyak
Director of User Experience
(UX) Strategy
Buck, a Gallagher Company
Michael Gorton
Founder
Recuro Health
Jason Hall
CEO
Benefit Resource (BRI)
Daniel Harris
EVP
Brian Patten and Associates – AirBPA Division
Lucas Hellmer
Associate VP, Director of Compensation & Benefits
Salas O’Brien Inc.
For Stacey Babyak, the individual end-user experience is central to the development of all HR tech...
Michael Gorton architected and launched Recuro Health Digital Medical Home, a virtual-first...
Benefit Resource CEO Jason Hall has been instrumental in expanding the firm’s market...
Daniel Harris recently transitioned from director of sales at Brian Patten & Associates to his current...
When Lucas Hellmer joined Salas O’Brien in 2021, he was tasked with developing the firm’s first-ever...
Leadership
Carrum Health
Cultivating internal leadership through strategic initiatives is crucial to benefits placement system...
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health provides surgical and cancer health care benefits to self-insured...
Cultivating internal leadership through
strategic initiatives is crucial to benefits placement system ThreeFlow’s growth and success. The organization identifies potential leaders and provides them with resources, support and training to enhance their skills. The company’s leadership development programs include workshops, seminars, mentoring and coaching. ThreeFlow encourages collaborative decision-making and welcomes ideas from all levels, which fosters a sense of ownership and accountability among its workforce. Continuous learning and feedback are important factors in ThreeFlow’s internal leadership development process. This includes regular performance evaluations and breakout sessions with executive team members during Q&A-style learning opportunities. ThreeFlow also hosts a monthly event called Lightning Learning where two employees have 10 minutes each to discuss anything of interest to them. This creates a sense of community and provides opportunities for employees to lead and bond with one another. By prioritizing internal leadership development, ThreeFlow has successfully built a strong leadership pipeline and fostered a culture of innovation and collaboration.
ThreeFlow
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health
provides surgical and cancer health care benefits to self-insured employers and their employees. The firm’s value-based care model is disrupting the existing fee-for-service model maintained by large insurance plans and helps employers tackle rising health care costs with transparent upfront pricing. The firm’s payment structure incentivizes providers, surgeons and employers, ensuring employees receive better care with lower out-of-pocket expenses and reduced readmissions. Carrum’s cancer-care offerings, introduced in 2021, address the main driver of employer health care spending. The bundled payment means a single, upfront payment for the entire cancer care episode and a two-year warranty on medical treatment, unheard of in the industry. While many companies have attempted to address value-based care models, few have achieved the level of market adoption that Carrum has. The firm has experienced 100% year-over-year growth in new customers and zero churn of existing customers since its inception.
Carrum Health
Benefit Resource CEO Jason Hall has been instrumental
in expanding the firm’s market presence. Under his
leadership, the firm acquired an Ohio-based administrator
of consumer-directed benefits, signaling its expansion
into the Great Lakes region. He is responsible for
strategic decision-making, overall operational
management, leading the executive team, motivating employees and fostering collaboration and a positive work culture. He also represents BRI to brokers, clients, participants, industry peers and the media. His efforts to foster a positive work environment include lifestyle accounts that provide employees with an annual allowance to spend on their personal wellbeing and implementing a company-wide initiative called “Moments That Matter” that encourages employees to nominate colleagues for exceptional work that resolves issues, assists with troubleshooting or simplifies the benefits process. In his spare time, he engages with his community as a board member at Mary Cariola, an organization that serves children and young adults with disabilities, and as a coach in a youth lacrosse program.
CEO
Benefit Resource (BRI)
Jason Hall
Michael Gorton architected and launched Recuro Health
Digital Medical Home, a virtual-first experience that
provides primary and urgent care, behavioral health
counseling, at-home lab and genomics testing, and
supplemental benefits including pharmacy and care
management. A 25-year industry veteran, Gorton serves
as the company’s public face while also making major corporate decisions and managing overall operations. Gorton is a pioneer in the telehealth industry, having co-founded Teladoc. He co-authored and published a book about how telemedicine was born on the streets of Boston in 1967 and how it grew into the industry we know today. Ernst & Young recently named Gorton one of its 2022 Entrepreneurs of the Year, and the World Economic Forum named him a technology pioneer in health care.
Founder
Recuro Health
Michael Gorton
For Stacey Babyak, the individual end-user experience is
central to the development of all HR tech solutions, and
she leverages her background in marketing and design
thinking to help individuals navigate the complexities of
benefits and reduce stress and confusion around
benefits selection. Babyak works with clients to
implement digital HR solutions using emerging design-thinking practices to translate business needs and user insights into personalized and accessible digital experiences. Her holistic approach encompasses facilitating stakeholder workshops, creating personas and journey maps, sketching wireframes and validating designs through user testing and developer collaboration. Her work has won numerous industry awards and the trust of many of Buck’s largest clients, notably Lockheed Martin, for whom Babyak championed a UX-led implementation to create a highly personalized online benefits experience for more than 300,000 users, including employees, retirees, spouses/dependents and candidates. She is a frequent speaker and thought leader on UX strategy and delivery.
Director of User Experience (UX) Strategy
Buck, a Gallagher Company
Stacey Babyak
Disillusioned with the fee-for-service health care system,
Sach Jain leveraged his technology, consulting and
health care background to create Carrum Health, which
he built on a value-based care delivery platform
designed to help employers tackle rising health care
costs while providing quality benefits with transparent
pricing. In 2021, Jain led Carrum to provide a first-to-market cancer care bundle, addressing one of the main drivers of employer health care spending. The firm’s cancer bundles include advisory reviews, treatments, and all provider-administered drugs at savings of up to 20% with $0 out-of-pocket for members. Through its surgical care benefit with third-party validation, Carrum reduces unnecessary procedures by as much as 30% and aligns cost and care incentives to save employers up to 45% per care episode. Since its inception, the company has experienced 100% year-over-year growth in new customers with zero churn of existing customers.
Co-founder & CEO
Carrum Health
Sach Jain
When Lucas Hellmer joined Salas O’Brien in 2021, he
was tasked with developing the firm’s first-ever unified
benefits and compensation program. Previously, the
company’s benefits programs were segmented due to
rapid growth through numerous acquisitions during the
past decade. When he joined, there were 35 medical
plans represented by 11 internal business units and four different renewal dates for a team consisting of 1,200 employees. His task was to consolidate all U.S. benefit operations into a national model, which he completed at the beginning of this year, generating substantial cost savings for the firm. His work included retaining a new broker, which saved $450,000 in broker fees annually; conducting a team member benefits survey; creating a national benefits plan and consolidating all previous benefits plans with active open enrollment for 2023; consolidating HSA accounts from 14 to 1; and transitioning the firm’s medical plan, which saved $1.2 million in premiums.
Associate VP, Director of Compensation & Benefits
Salas O’Brien Inc.
Lucas Hellmer
Daniel Harris recently transitioned from director of sales
at Brian Patten & Associates to his current role as EVP
of the firm’s AirBPA division. In this new role, Harris is
focused on cultivating partnerships with more than 40
markets across the United States and brokerage houses
within each area. Harris has a knack for identifying gaps,
changes and failing metrics within the benefits landscape and preemptively creating design solutions to address challenges. After a banner year in 2019 that produced more than $20 million in voluntary sales, he leveraged 15 years of experience to identify the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and take decisive action to pivot BPA. With Harris spearheading the transformation, BPA successfully transitioned from a primarily face-to-face model to a 90% virtual approach using innovative technology with a white-glove methodology while providing each employee individual attention and support. Outside of work, he is a doting father to his three young girls, coaching their sports and attending dance classes and school functions.
EVP
Brian Patten and Associates – AirBPA Division
Daniel Harris