Management Team

The management and technical teams at WiredBenefits include industry veterans from market leading benefits, healthcare, loyalty card and transaction processing companies across the country.

The WiredBenefits team has delivered state-of-the-art, fully functional, compliant, administrative and member worksites to the country's leading payroll providers and TPAs since 1999.

Charles Marshall, President and CEO

Charles Marshall is the CEO and co-founder of WiredBenefits. He brings over 30 years of experience in building companies, products and services to meet the needs of healthcare providers, consumers and employers.

Charles started his career at HP, after receiving his MBA from UCLA, where he served in a number of management and executive roles in their International and Medical Electronics Divisions. He left HP in the early 90's and has since co-founded four companies in the financial services and employee benefits' automation industries that have either gone public or been successfully acquired. His last company, WiredCommute, is the back office provider for Sec. 132 flex account benefits administration for the nation's leading payroll providers including ADP and Ceridian. WiredCommute was acquired in 2004 by Accor Corporation of France.

Mr. Marshall also served as chairman of Dealix, Inc., a leading online shopping and media platform for the automotive industry. He is chairman of the Law Enforcement Technology Information Exchange (LETIX), a non-profit he co-founded that is developing online solutions, in cooperation with leading financial services providers, for law enforcement agencies.

Larry van der Veen, Chief Technology Officer

Larry has spent forty-four years in Information Technology as an applied software engineering manager, professional consultant, chief technologist, and senior manager of broad-based IT and technical support groups.

His engineering management and software development competence had as its foundation ten years of programming and managing projects for NASA's Pioneer Venus project, followed by employment and consulting engagements to develop and deploy mission critical business applications and their underlying platforms. Participating as a senior executive, he has managed large groups, ranging up to 200 people, providing technical services to external and internal customers. The roles that Larry has managed include IT, Software Engineering, Service Operations, and consultancy practices for companies including WiredBenefits Inc., Accor Services USA, WebTV, Lotus Development (Vanguard Business Solutions), Pyramid Technology, Data General, Fortune, GRiD Systems, Digital Equipment, and Compression Labs.

With the rapid growth of internet and wireless related companies, Larry provided IT and operations management within many venture start-ups, assuming leadership of IT, service operations, engineering, and projects office organizations. Recent experiences with WiredBenefits, WiredCommute LLC (acquired by Accor Services USA), WebTV (acquired my Microsoft), and Vanguard Business solutions (acquired by Lotus Development) have proven his skills in understanding requirements and building organizations and systems to support front-line service and back-office systems strategic imperatives.

Stephen Manthey, Chief Financial Officer

Stephen Manthey is the CFO for WiredBenefits with complete responsibility for all finance, accounting, and administrative functions. He has over 29 years experience with extensive knowledge of credit card programs and management.

Stephen worked for over 10 years with First Data Corp and over 13 years with Accor, SA. Accor Services, SA is the world's largest, prepaid card company and hotel company based in Paris, France. He has been an officer and board member for numerous companies throughout his career including most recently WiredCommute. Stephen also has expertise in Mergers, Acquisitions and IPO's having completed over 11 to date.

He has been recognized by the Association of Financial Professionals as one of the country's top 300 Treasurers. He has also served on various banking, NACHA and finance committees along with being a frequent guest speaker and author for various finance education and banking seminars.

Stephen Manthey received his Master of Science in Business from Colorado State University in 1981 specializing in Finance; and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from CSU in 1980. He is a Certified Treasury Professional.

Gregory Strauss, SVP Strategy and Innovation

Gregory brings 18 years of healthcare sales, marketing, financial and strategic planning experience to WiredBenefits. Mr. Strauss oversees global health and wellness business development and partnership activities with Fortune 500 organizations, health plans, healthcare vendors, consulting organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and government entities.

Prior to joining WiredBenefits, Mr. Strauss developed and launched the healthcare programming at IncentOne a leading integrated incentive solutions provider, serving as the Vice President of Sales, Health and Productivity Solutions. Mr. Strauss has guided design and delivery of strategic partnerships around the improvement of health and wellness program utilization for Fortune 500 companies and large healthcare organizations across the country.

Previously Gregory led all sales and marketing activities as the Director of Sales for Pharos Innovations, a health technology organization that focuses on remote patient engagement and behavior change in members with chronic diseases.

Mr. Strauss has held various sales positions at GlaxoSmithKline, is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum, graduate of Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the former Communications Chairman of the Lake Forest Caucus Committee.

Chris Kocher, Director of Products

Chris Kocher heads up marketing and product management at WiredBenefits. He brings over 25 years of experience working with large Global 2000 companies as well as early stage startups.

Chris began his career at Hewlett-Packard and was responsible for managing the introduction of some of HP's pioneering technologies including HP's first laser printer, first PC, and early client server systems. He went on to manage one of HP's initial Independent Software Vendor programs before leaving to be a VP GM at Symantec where he grew one of the acquired business units from start up to a $25M business. Since leaving Symantec, Chris has advised over 100 early stage companies on accelerating revenues and increasing company valuations. Many of them went on to receive further rounds of funding, mergers, buyouts and other liquidity events for investors. He has also advised Visa, Account Now and other financial service companies on growth initiatives.

He holds an MBA from Columbia University in marketing and international business and a BA from Princeton University in Political Science and International Affairs.

Advisors

Larry Leisure

Larry Leisure has over 25 years of experience providing health care strategy & advisory consulting to leading companies in the insurance, managed care, pharmaceutical, device and life sciences industries. Currently Larry is a board member at Seriosity, a managing partner at Accelus Health Partners and a Venture Partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield and Byers.

He has held senior management and consulting leadership roles as a Global Managing Partner of Accenture's Health Industry Vertical, Group Practice Leader and Managed Care Practice Leader at Towers Perrin, and SVP at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.

Scott Loftesness

Scott Loftesness is a mobile payments and social media expert. He brings over 30 years of senior management experience in financial services and technology and is an experienced board member and advisor to CEO's, entrepreneurs, strategic and venture investors. He is co-author of Payments Systems in the U.S. - available on Amazon.com and is the founding partner of Glenbrook Partners

Prior to founding Glenbrook, Scott was a Group Executive at First Data Corp. in charge of Merchant Services, Group Executive VP at Visa International and a Group Executive VP at Visa USA.

Jim Roszkowski

Jim Roszkowski is the President and CEO of Patria Services. He has in excess of 20 years in the industry with extensive expertise in trigger marketing with purpose-built technology to exceed client's key business metrics and engage the critical new mover consumer segment. He is also on the advisory board of InstaMed and Board Director-Chair of the Board of Governance and Nominating Committee at Soundbite Communications Inc.

Before Patria Services, Jim was a Senior Executive VP at MBNA America, Director of Member Relations at Visa USA and National Account Director at Chase Manhattan Bank.