DIRECTWEB ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Founder
- Founder of Horn Entrepreneurship
Charlie is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in numerous high growth companies. He is an innovator in the health care and consumer benefits arena, utilizing strong marketing and category changing technology. Charlie believes in creating entrepreneurial successes by designing new paradigms for innovation and business optimization driven by individuals' and teams' skills and passion for changing the world.
Horn founded companies have won numerous awards for best places to work, most admired companies and seven Inc 500 awards for fast growth.
Charlie is also the founder of Horn Entrepreneurship and the UD Venture Development Center, which lead and teach high school, college, graduate students, faculty and community innovators to be entrepreneurial thinkers and give them the skills to manifest their dreams through business and social ventures.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
Chester is the former CEO of Stratovize, LLC a company he founded, and he currently works with DirectPath. Chester has 30 years of insurance, healthcare and technology experience. He is a nationally recognized expert in innovative solutions in employee benefits, healthcare, wellness, technology, engagement and distribution. Known for driving profitable revenue growth, accelerating speed to market and ROI. Award-winning sales, sales management, and business leader in healthcare delivery, insurance and technology.
Job Titles:
- VP Technology & Innovation
Prior to joining Genius Avenue, Chris spent 20 years with IBM in both technical and program management roles. He built a series of world class support organizations delivering services to Fortune 500 companies and other international customers.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
- Senior Benefits Consultant for 17 Years With CBIZ
Eric has been a Senior Benefits Consultant for 17 years with CBIZ. His direct client responsibilities include long range strategic planning, corporate benefit compliance, financial projections, claims reporting, vendor management and trend/ claims analysis, as well as responsibility for the management of each client relationship and the CBIZ team in place to take care of them. In 2017 Eric was named the Market Leader for CBIZ Employee Benefits in Arizona, responsible for the entire workforce of 48 employees and overall P&L responsibility for the agency.
Job Titles:
- Development Manager
- Manager
Jay is currently a manager of the software development group after starting as a leader in the EDI team over five years ago. He leverages his bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Arizona to provide the data analytics and actionable reporting insights needed to creatively solve problems and effectively meet our client's requirements with platform enhancements & automated efficiencies that scale their business.
Liam is first and foremost a problem solver. As a marketing strategist, consultant, and executive he has spent more than two decades transforming companies and building predictable, scalable marketing machines.
Senior Director of Business Operations, HR, & Compliance Prior to joining Genius Avenue in 2013, Lucha's 14 year tenure at Udall Law Firm, LLP as a Paralegal and Legal Secretary contributed to her extensive knowledge of business and operational procedures.
Job Titles:
- SVP of 5Lights & General Counsel
Matt was a partner in the law firm of Hecker & Muehlebach, PLLC. His areas of practice focus primarily on complex corporate and business transactions general corporate and business law, and securities regulation, and employment law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
Megan's career includes several leadership roles in sales, strategic marketing, business management and operations in the high-tech, manufacturing and healthcare industries. She enjoys building strong teams that consistently exceed goals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
Michael Reynolds is the West Region Voluntary Benefits consulting lead for Willis Towers Watson. Michael has over 25 years of experience in employee benefits, including 20 years in voluntary benefits. He serves as an advisor to clients on a broad range of disciplines covering areas, such as strategy, program and plan design, RFPs, implementation and ongoing plan management. He collaborates with clients, consulting teams and vendors to align voluntary benefits with the total reward and employee benefit strategy. Prior to joining Willis Towers Watson, Michael was vice president of product and marketing for a large global insurance carrier where he was responsible for enterprise innovation and voluntary benefits product development and management. He also worked as vice president for one of the nation's largest health insurers where he was responsible for small and large group marketing and voluntary benefits product.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
Mike is an insurance veteran with over 38 years of leadership in the industry and a demonstrated history of driving successful innovation and business development. As President of Arizona Benefit Plans Inc, Mike and his team take a consultative approach to helping agents, brokers and consultants create customized insurance programs to meet the unique needs of each employer. Mike is an expert in employee benefits with emphasis in the self-funded and partially self-funded stop loss markets. Additionally, as a partner in Fringe Assist, LLC Mike assisted in developing a new product set in the Life Insurance space specifically for prevailing wage impacted employers.
Job Titles:
- Client Services Specialist for Ternian
Job Titles:
- Member of the Genius Avenue Advisory Board
- Founding Partner in Genius Avenue
Rod is a founding partner in Genius Avenue and supports its Leadership Team with business development strategy and the creation of innovative products and partnerships. Rod is founding principal of the business development consulting firms Dunmyre and Company LLC and Nexus|BD Solutions. Since 2004 Rod has consulted with C-Level executives on growth strategies for their companies resulting in the development and launch of 46 new products and solutions. Clients include leading Insurance, Healthcare, Fintech, Pharma, and virtual health companies. Rod was on the founding team of Scriptsave serving as its Chief Marketing Officer. He has served as Chief Marketing Officer for an ING company, COO for a leading voluntary benefits carrier, and lead individual health product marketing for a national carrier.
Job Titles:
- Client Operations Manager
Tammy has worked with Genius Avenue for more than 5 years. She began with the Client Services Team and then moved on to join the Client Billing Team. She now oversees the newly combined Billing and Client Services Team as Client Operations Manager. Tammy uses her diverse skillset to create efficiencies with an emphasis on cross-training and implementation, while assuring all customer needs are met.