CHARLESTON, S.C., April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT), a leading
cloud-based benefits management platform and services provider,
today announced two distinguished technology executives have joined
the company's leadership team to further its market-leading
strategic engagement initiatives. These key appointments
include:
- Peter Allen as Senior Vice
President, Sales & Strategic Initiatives – responsible for
leading Benefitfocus' sales team, accelerating platform sales
growth and delivering on the company's strategic priorities,
including key industry partnerships; and
- Jeffrey Gross as Senior Vice
President, Marketing & Branding – responsible for advancing the
company's brand, enhancing demand generation, engaging consumers
and expanding market and thought leadership.
Each has in-depth experience scaling high-performing teams and
driving innovation in a variety of high-growth platform and
technology companies.
"Benefitfocus is totally transforming the benefits experience,"
said Ray August, President &
CEO. "We successfully pivoted our strategy and reignited our growth
in 2018. We look forward to leveraging this momentum and
capitalizing on the valuable expertise Peter and Jeffrey bring to
Benefitfocus. They each will play important roles in accelerating
our platform momentum and market leadership with unrelenting focus
on delivering a world-class experience for our ecosystem
stakeholders including customers, consumers and strategic business
partners."
Allen brings Benefitfocus valuable experience derived from a
25-plus year career in technology sales, platform-based services
and industry alliances through senior executive positions with Iron
Mountain, Alvarez & Marsal, Computer Sciences Corporation, Data
Dimensions and Information Services Group (ISG). Having served for
many years as advisor and architect for adopting digital service
models for global companies, coupled with his leadership of global
sales and service delivery functions, Allen provides direction for
the company's growth strategies. Allen received his Bachelor
of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
Prior to Benefitfocus, Gross was Chief Marketing Officer for
Axway Technology where he led product and solutions marketing,
branding, field and marketing operations and corporate
communications in a fast-moving landscape. He has over 25 years of
experience, most recently in senior marketing leadership roles at
Software AG and Microsoft, and has directed innovative business
development and demand generation programs for companies including
BearingPoint Consulting, Ariba and KPMG. Gross received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan.
About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT) unifies
the entire U.S. benefits industry on a single technology platform
to protect consumers' health, wealth, property and lifestyle. Our
powerful cloud-based software, data-driven insights and
thoughtfully-designed services, enable employers, insurance brokers
and carriers to simplify the complexity of benefits administration
and deliver a world-class benefits experience. Learn more at
www.benefitfocus.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Except for historical information, all of the statements,
expectations, and assumptions contained in this press release are
forward-looking statements. Actual results or performance might
differ materially from those explicit or implicit in the
forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially include: our ability to recruit
and retain qualified personnel and maintain our culture ;
management of growth; the need to innovate and provide useful
products and services; our ability to compete effectively; the
immature and volatile nature of the market for our products and
services; risks related to changing healthcare and other applicable
regulations; privacy; security and other risks associated with our
business; and the other risk factors set forth from time to time in
our SEC filings, copies of which are available free of
charge within the Investor Relations section of
the Benefitfocus website at
http://investor.benefitfocus.com/sec-filings or upon request from
our investor relations department. Benefitfocus assumes
no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking
statements, except as required by law.
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