The 1st Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Next Generation Health Benefits for Employers and Payers convenes leading executives to address the industry-wide efforts to achieve a sustainable balance between health plan costs and quality health care for employees. By featuring the nation’s most influential thinkers in health plan design and benefits management, this leadership summit features ground-breaking solutions to challenging issues that span the U.S. health system.

This executive summit addresses themes that include:

• Transforming benefits by navigating the proliferation of consumerism in plan design and selection
• Addressing the challenges of consumer driven health and hearing ground-breaking solutions from other industry sectors, leading health plans, and employers
• Leveraging information technology to customize and innovate
• Building strategic relationships and alliances to maximize value for employers and to diversify product portfolios

Thought Leaders In Attendance
Larry Altman Branding New Product Development Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield	Brian Ancell Executive Vice President Strategic Development & Health Care Services Premera Blue Cross
Ronald E. Bachman Principal in the Human Resource Consulting Division PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.	Kim Bellard Vice President, eMarketing and Customer Relationship Management Highmark
Elizabeth Bierbower Vice President of Innovation Humana	Kim Cannon Senior Vice President of Benefits Washington Mutual Bank
David Cochran, MD SVP, Strategic Development Harvard Pilgrim Health Care	Nancy Dantzman Vice President of Sales eFlexgroup
Joe Dimartini President, Payer Services WebMD Business Services	Mark Fisher Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Fallon Community Health Plan
Amit Gupta President and CEO CareGain	Marilyn Guthrie Assistant Vice President, Manager of Health Promotion Washington Mutual Bank
Cecily Hall Director, US Benefits Microsoft Corporation	Linda Hall Whitman CEO MinuteClinic
Peter Hayes Director of Associate Health & Wellness, Hannaford Bros.; Board of Governance, Care Focused Purchasing Initiative; Board member, The Leapfrog Group; Executive Board Member, Maine Health Management Coalition	Katy Henrickson Senior Analyst Forrester Research
Kirk Hoewisch Senior Vice President HSA Bank	Brad Kimler Senior Vice President, Benefits Consulting Fidelity Employer Services
Lawrence (Larry) B. Leisure Senior Vice President, Sales and Account Management, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.	Jonathan T. Lord, MD CEO Humana Inc.
Deborah Majoras Chairman Federal Trade Commission	Ted Meads Vice President of Sales National Accounts, Lumenos
Phil Micali CEO and founder bWell International, Inc.	Arnold Milstein, MD Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health and Benefits; Chair, IHA P4P Steering Committee
David Neeleman Chief Executive Officer JetBlue Airways	Stephen Neeleman, MD Chief Executive Officer Health Equity Inc.
Dan Perrin Executive Director HSA Coalition	Tom Richards Senior Vice President, Product CIGNA
Greg Scandlen President and Chief Executive Officer Consumers for Health Care Choice	Michael Showalter Vice President, Market Solutions Definity Health
Dr. Stephen R. Sleigh Director of Strategic Resources International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers	Rose Umile Senior Manager, Employee Benefits Raytheon