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Lawrence F. Thompson

President/Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Lawrence Thompson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Benefit Systems, Inc. (BSI) a healthcare advisory and solutions firm he founded in 2002. BSI provides Consulting and Solutions to Employers, Payers, Providers and Administrators.

 

Concurrently, he was the Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer at Advanced pricing Solutions (AMPS) until the end of 2022. He joined the company after selling his other consulting company, Inventios, LLC. to AMPS in September 2019. He was responsible for strategic development and revenue growth for the company. Prior to that, Mr. Thompson was the President of Health Insurance Company of America and President for Pomco, Inc. – a reinsurance carrier and one of the largest independent TPAs in the US.

 

Before joining Pomco he was he was SVP of HealthNow New York, Inc. which owned two Blue companies and a large TPA (HNAS). His responsibilities included P&L for all commercial Blue business, TPA and brokerage operations, totaling over $2.8 billion annually. He also served as COO of HealthNow Administrative Services (HNAS) a TPA and brokerage company in Blue Bell, PA and Sacramento, CA. Prior to joining HealthNow he was the CRO for Healthaxis a public BPO and Technology company in Dallas, TX. The company provided technology and BPO services for health plan administration at insurance companies, health systems, TPA’s and others.

 

Mr. Thompson also founded and operated his own TPA in California and Arizona. He grew this TPA to over 120,000 members before he sold it in 2001. Before this he was the EVP of Dun & Bradstreet Plan Services for 8 years with P&L responsibility for 16 national insurance companies group programs. Mr. Thompson started his career with Aetna where he was an Account Executive handling life, health, pensions and international benefits.

 

Mr. Thompson is a past Chairman of the Self Insurance Institute of America (SIIA), a past President of both his local NABIP and NAIFA chapters, a past Board Member of CAHU and has served on several non-industry Boards. He has been very active in shaping both State and Federal healthcare regulation. He is an accomplished speaker having delivered over 650 presentations nationally.

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Steve Manzelli

Executive Vice President

Mr. Stephen Manzelli has been the EVP of BSI since 2017 and is also CEO of his own company SSMMC. He has 33 years of multi-faceted customer experience in the insurance field, ranging from serving individuals, Fortune 500 companies and a variety of aggregators in the healthcare vertical. Beyond his current role at BSI, Mr. Manzelli has worked with Mr. Thompson for the last 15 years; this has included growth leadership roles at Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions (AMPS), co-founding Inventavis consulting, POMCO and HealthNow/HealthNow Administrative Services (HNAS). Prior to that, Mr. Manzelli had progressive leadership roles at JLT Services, Hewitt Associates (prior to AON merger) and Travelers Insurance.

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Mr. Manzelli’s accomplishments cut across a wide range of top-line functions including sales and new market development, client management and related profitability enhancement. His goal remains to stay at the forefront for insurance product and service design, strategic partnership development, healthcare technology augmentation and business strategy insight to help healthcare entities grow their top and bottom lines.

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Current engagements include a variety of aggregators in the insurance vertical, including but not limited to health systems, TPAs, insurance carriers, associations, large employers, Taft Hartley groups, leading-edge technology, product and service firms, and PE/VC firms.

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