Our Team

Staff Members

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 a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Brendan Shanahan - Chief Administrative Officer - Brendan has been working in the health care industry since 1984. Prior to co-founding HealthPlanOne, Brendan was most recently CFO for WellCare Health Plans’ (NYSE:WCG) Connecticut plan. Prior to that, Brendan spent two years at WellCare’s corporate office in Tampa as VP Finance.

Brendan earned his CPA working for KPMG Peat Marwick in New York City from 1984 to 1991. Brendan graduated from The Citadel with a BS in Business administration, and holds an MBA from Hofstra 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.

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 form the University of Connecticut.

Chris Efthymiou - Executive Vice President, Development - Chris has held senior roles in the insurance brokerage and banking industry for the last 10 years, specializing in development of employee benefit distribution through commercial banking channels. He was a founding member of the first bank-owned insurance brokerage, JPMorgan Insurance Brokerage & Advisory Services (NSE: JPM), and began his career at Oxford Health Plans, both in New York City.

Chris earned his B.A. from Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, in 1992. Chris and his wife Erika have 4 small children.

Board Members

Kevin Hill - Kevin Hill worked at Oxford Health plans from 1989 to 2006, serving most recently as Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure, his accomplishments include:

Opened the Oxford NJ Health Plan as Director in January 1991
Promoted to CEO, OHP of NJ in 1994. Grew the plan to 400,000 members in 5 years, responsible for sales, account management, underwriting, Medicaid and Medicare with a staff of 700.
Named SVP of sales and account management company wide in 1998.
Named EVP sales, account management, marketing and product development in January 2000 reporting to CEO, Norm Payson
Upon purchase by United, named CEO of Oxford Health Plans (a UHG sub) and of United Healthcare NE from Philly thru NE reporting to Dave Wichmann CEO of UHC

Kevin worked for Great West Life as an account executive from June 1985 thru June 1989 in Tampa and Columbus, OH. He graduated Rutgers University in 1985.