Our Team

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.

Peter Kihara – Vice President, Finance - Peter has over fifteen years of finance and operations management experience across a diverse group of organizations. Prior to joining Health Plan One he was President of Athena Education Partners, an investment company focused on the career education industry.  Peter successfully managed the company through a period of rapid growth driven by acquisitions and internal marketing initiatives. Peter was previously a senior manager in strategy and business development with the Otis Elevator division of United Technologies Corporation in Farmington, Connecticut. He began his professional career with the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse in Los Angeles, California.

Peter is a licensed CPA and holds a BS from California State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dawn Ozolins - VP, Product Development and Carrier Relations - Before joining Health Plan One, Dawn was Director of Product Development and Management for Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., a subsidiary of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT). She was responsible for the design, development, and implementation of Consumer Directed Health Plans and all products sold through the Guardian Life Insurance Company and Health Net $1 billion joint venture, as well as for introducing product profitability and service improvements to existing Northeast region products.

From 1992 to 2000, Dawn worked at United Health Care in various account management roles including administering the Connecticut Health Reinsurance Association, Connecticut’s High Risk Insurance Pool.

Dawn holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Connecticut.

Trevor Prout - VP, Marketing - Trevor Prout joins Health Plan One 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

Shabbir Dahod :-Shabbir Dahod is a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital, and brings to FirstMark decades of leadership experience with SaaS, shrink-wrap and enterprise business models as well as go-to-market strategies including online, channel, inside and field sales and marketing.

Previously, Shabbir was an executive at Microsoft to lead collaboration and knowledge management efforts using emerging XML standards and new Internet communication tools. In 1999, he founded iWant, an early leader in the market for search-based, pay-for-performance Internet advertising supported applications. He then served as interim CEO at Performaworks to revamp the product, technology and customer base in the corporate employee and goal management market. More recently, Mr. Dahod founded SupplyScape Corporation, a leader in safeguarding the pharmaceutical supply chain from counterfeiting and diversion based on barcode and RFID technologies. Under his leadership, SupplyScape established new industry standards, shaped regulations and acquired 100 major customers including Pfizer, UPS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.

Shabbir is on the boards of Health Plan One and Klocwork.

Shabbir holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Boston University.

Divya Gugnani : - Divya Gugnani joined FirstMark Capital (formerly Pequot Ventures) in 2006 and is now a Vice President, focusing on information technology investments. Previously, Divya was at Millennium Technology Ventures, where she made secondary direct investments in information technology and software companies.Prior to Millennium, Divya was an associate at iFormation Group, a joint venture between The Boston Consulting Group, General Atlantic Partners, and Goldman Sachs. At iFormation, she worked on several financings for site59, a web-based travel site, and the eventual sale of the business to Travelocity.

Divya also engaged in the operational build of ipValue, an intellectual property commercialization firm, and provided the management team with ongoing strategic, financial, and recruiting guidance. Divya received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She also holds a degree from the French Culinary Institute. Divya serves on the Board of Directors of Superior Access Insurance Services and Swingtide.

Kevin Hill - Kevin Hill graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 and went on to work for Great West Life as an account executive from June 1985 through June 1989 in Tampa, FL and Columbus, OH.

Kevin then moved to Oxford Health Plans from 1989 to 2006, most recently serving as Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure, Kevin opened the Oxford NJ Health Plan as Director in January 1991 and was promoted to CEO of Oxford Health Plans NJ in 1994. Kevin was responsible for sales, account management, underwriting, Medicaid, and Medicare with a staff of 700. In 5 years, Kevin helped expand the plan to cover 400,000 members. In 1998, he was named company-wide SVP of sales and account management. In 2000, Kevin was promoted to EVP of sales, account management, marketing, and product development, reporting to CEO Norm Payson. Upon United’s purchase of Oxford Health Plans, Kevin was named CEO of both Oxford Health Plans (now a UHG sub) and of United Healthcare NE, reporting to Dave Wichmann, CEO of UHC.

Larry Lenihan: - Lawrence Lenihan is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, LLC, which he founded in August 2008, previously named Pequot Ventures, which was founded by Larry in 1996. From 1996 to August 2008, Larry was a managing general partner and co-head of the Pequot Venture funds and the Pequot private equity funds. Previously, Larry was a principal with Broadview Associates, L.L.C., an investment banking firm, where he was a senior member of the mergers and acquisitions. Larry also held various positions within IBM and led the development and launch of one of the first transactional multimedia systems for the retail industry.

Larry holds a BS from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Andrew Lipsher - Drew Lipsher is a partner of Greycroft LLC with over fourteen years of media and entertainment, corporate development, and investment experience. Lipsher has spent his career in the media industry as a senior strategic planning and corporate development executive and has operated at senior levels at Warner Music Group, BMG Entertainment, News Corporation and Interscope Geffen A&M Records.  His experiences cover all aspects including investments, M&A, strategic planning, business development, technology, restructurings and divestitures. As a senior executive, he worked closely with top management of business units to help set, plan and execute strategies.

Lipsher holds a B.A. in History from Yale and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He lives in New York City with his wife Meredith and two sons, Nick and Zach.

Bill Stapleton

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.