Chad is the Chief Revenue Officer at Flo Health, where he brings almost two decades of experience working in leadership roles across several fields of healthcare and the healthcare economy, including insurers, providers and employers.  While working in the family benefits and employee wellness space, he has been instrumental in establishing key organizational metrics, executing growth strategies, managing client relationships, overseeing global channel partnership relationships, building global sales, marketing and client success teams, nurturing key national consultant relationships and increasing company revenues.

Jennifer joined MMA in August 2012 and has 23 years of experience in Employee Benefits from both the client and consulting side. Jennifer’s benefits experience includes all lines of coverage for health & welfare plans and has worked mostly with large clients managing self-funded plans.  Jennifer’s management of self-funded plans includes partnering with the financial team and members of the executive team in order to create and monitor the annual budget for program services, analyze financial reporting and consult on your financial performance as it relates to claims management and healthcare spend. Jennifer maintains a strategic focus on your benefit plans that ranges from financial analysis, compliance, implementation, account management service levels, annual renewal efforts and healthcare trends.  As employers continue to face challenges in an environment where the cost of healthcare and pharmacy costs are rising, Jennifer takes innovative approaches and leverages data to provide strategies for cost containment.  Jennifer and her MMA team members has a high level of commitment to the consulting efforts she provides to you.

Jennifer has expertise consulting for companies in fast growth phases, companies expanding nationally and globally as well as companies changing their funding strategies.

In addition to Jennifer’s experience, she also has 10 years of experience in managing pension plans and overseeing administration of retirement and pension plans. Jennifer has a strong knowledge in client relationships for matters of account management, implementation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital purchases, Unions and significant headcount fluctuations.

Jennifer has previously worked at two other consulting firms and held the role of Human Resources Manager while working on the client side. Jennifer has worked with several large, national, self-funded clients in the Health Care Industry and has industry-specific experience while working as the Human Resources Manager for a National Healthcare Company acquiring LTAC Hospitals across the country.

Jennifer received her Bachelor’s of Science and Administration Degree from the University of Tampa, her Master’s in Business Administration Degree from the University of Phoenix and holds her Life, Health and Variable Annuities Insurance license.

John Eshleman is the Director of Benefits for Memorial Hermann Health System, a 29,000 employee not-for-profit health system in Houston, Texas.  He has over 20 years’ experience in employee benefits, both in consulting and corporate benefits. He oversees all health and welfare, retirement, leave, time-off, and educational reimbursement programs and has been instrumental in bringing new wellbeing programs to the suite of benefits that Memorial Hermann offers its’ employees.

John holds the CEBS, CEBS Fellow, SHRM-SCP, and SPHR designations. He currently serves on the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (ISCEBS) Board of Directors and is the Secretary/Treasurer of the ISCEBS Governing Council.

A native Texan, John received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Houston and is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration from Prairie View A&M University.  He is a theatre and baseball fan and enjoys visiting national parks with his family.

Jess Huang is the Partner and author of the Women in the Workplace report at McKinsey & Company.

Lora Christopher, Executive Director of Employee Benefits within People & Culture at Consumers Energy.  Lora leads a team responsible for health care, retirement, workers’ compensation, absence management and well-being programs for co-workers and retirees.  Lora is passionate in space of improving overall total well-being for coworkers and their dependents with robust programs to support. Lora has over 15 years of expertise in managing employee benefits.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.