Management
Bill Stapleton - Chief Executive Officer - Bill has held senior management roles in the managed care industry for the last 15 years working at Oxford Health Plans, Inc., HCA, Inc., and Health Net, Inc. Before founding HealthPlanOne, he was Senior Vice President for Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT). His responsibilities included product development and managing the New Jersey and Connecticut Medicaid programs.
Bill earned his CPA at KPMG Peat Marwick in Boston. He holds a BA degree from Holy Cross College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
David Henderson - Chief Financial Officer - David has eighteen years of finance and operations management experience across a diverse group of organizations. Prior to joining HealthPlanOne, Mr. Henderson was previously Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development at Open Solutions, which focuses on the financial services marketplace. He oversaw mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and investor relations, and was a key contributor to the company's growth by closing 15 acquisitions and raising over $2 billion. He was previously the Director of Product Management at Palm and AnyDay and began his professional career in the financial services industry at the Carlyle Group and Dillon Read. He holds a BA from Yale University in History and Economics.
Trevor Prout - VP, Marketing - Trevor Prout joins HealthPlanOne from the online travel agency, Priceline.com, where he directed the company's search-engine marketing efforts for more than four years. Prior to joining Priceline.com, Trevor held various marketing management roles at a number of innovative technology companies, including ECM SMARTS, IBG, i3 Mobile, and Blackbaud.
Trevor received his MBA in marketing from New York University's Stern School of Business and his BA from Yale University.
Mike Stapleton - Chief Technical Officer - Mike Stapleton is a software systems architect and developer specializing in the financial services industry with extensive experience designing and implementing scalable web-based and desktop solutions. He has worked on several large information system projects at Fidelity Investments, including MaxxBrokerTM, an online stock-trading site offered to brokerages and banks for account management and clearing. In addition he worked as an architect on StreetScapeTM, the $20 million n-Tier web platform for Fidelity's Institutional Brokerage Group's electronic products. Most recently he worked at bSwift, LLC a provider of employee benefit software and content. Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College.
Tom Wicker - Vice President, Sales & Operations - Over the past 10 years Tom has held management roles in both the health insurance sale and mortgage industry. Tom's main focus was not only the daily management of the sales organization, but also to implement new technologies to increase the production and efficiency of the sales representative. Tom's career began at Oxford Health Plans in NY.
Tom holds a degree in Health Care Administration from Quinnipiac University.
Board Members
Kevin Hill - Kevin spent 1989 through 2004 with Oxford Health Plans in a variety of executive management positions. From 1999 through 2004 Kevin was the Executive VP of Sales, Products and Pricing, reporting to the company CEO. In this capacity all sales, marketing, product, pricing and underwriting departments for Oxford's $5.5+ billion commercial and Medicare businesses reported to Kevin. Upon Oxford's sale in 2004 to United Healthcare, Kevin was named CEO of United's Northeast Division and was with UHC until 2006. Since 2006 Kevin has been an advisor and/or board member of several VC backed companies, including acting as the Chairman of HealthPlanOne, Chairman of CheckpointHR and as a senior advisor to Liazon Corporation and other health and benefit related companies. Kevin resides in Rumson, NJ with his wife and three children and spends much of his time involved in several community related roles.
Gerald Poch - Gerald Poch is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital. Jerry is directly responsible for investments in infrastructure and serves as a senior member of FirstMark Capital's Investment Committee. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Jerry was a Senior Managing Director of Pequot Ventures.
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Chan Wheeler - Chan Wheeler's career in healthcare has spanned almost three decades of involvement with some of the leading healthcare organizations. Chan is the former CEO of Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group company. In addition to being CEO of Uniprise, Chan held various senior posts at UnitedHealth Group. Before joining UnitedHealth, Chan worked in executive positions with CIGNA HealthCare and with Maxicare Healthcare Corporation.
Alan Patricof, (observer) - Alan Patricof is the founder and managing director of Greycroft LLC. A longtime innovator and advocate for venture capital, Alan entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners – today, one of the world's leading private equity firms with $35 billion under management. He stepped back from the daily administration and operational aspects of Apax Partners, LP in 2001 to concentrate on a group of small venture deals on its behalf.
Over the course of his 40 year career in private equity, Alan has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution. He has helped build and foster the growth of numerous major global companies, including, among others, America Online, Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, IntraLinks, and Audible. He was also a founder and chairman of the board of New York magazine, which later acquired the Village Voice and New West magazine.