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GIS Benefits and the business of making benefits work
A benefits package is only as useful as the machinery behind it. GIS Benefits has built its business around the quotes, connections, conversations, and bills that turn a promise into something employees can use.
Krista Woolley Makes Complicated Companies Easier to Understand
From freight rail to employee benefits, the Dallas-Fort Worth marketing executive has built a career on a practical skill: translating complicated systems into language people can use.
Ana Perez Makes the Complicated Business of Benefits Feel Human
PlanSource's chief marketing officer has spent her career translating dense systems into clear choices. Her method joins revenue discipline to a warmer idea: technology earns attention only when people can trust what it helps them do.
Seif Saghri Built a Perks Company Before Perks Became a Strategy
In 1999, employee perks were often a homemade list of deals. Seif Saghri turned that neglected HR chore into an online marketplace, spent 25 years widening its reach, then learned the founder’s last operating lesson: how to hand over the keys.
The $4 Claim Check That Could Save an Employer $30,000
ClaimInformatics wants self-funded employers to stop trusting the dashboard and inspect the bill. Its pitch is simple: review every claim, document every decision, and pay the referee for the work - not for how much it denies.
The Quiet Company Behind $4 Billion in Healthcare Payments
A.E. Perkins has assembled benefits administration, payroll, direct primary care and payment infrastructure under one long-term owner. Its pitch is less about disruption than about making the machinery of work and healthcare reliably disappear into the background.
Nick Abramovich
Nick Abramovich is the CEO of Workers Benefit Fund, a New York-based benefits platform that builds the plumbing between gig workers, freelancers, independent contractors and the government, union and private benefits they are eligible for but almost never enroll in. He has been running the company since 2019, when WBF acquired BeneStream, the Medicaid-for-the-workplace outfit he ran as President. Under him, WBF added Upward Finance in December 2024, extending the platform from healthcare enrollment into tax and earnings tools for gig workers. Before benefits, he was CEO of Synaptic Digital and CMO of Ditech Holding Corporation, with earlier stops at MetLife, MoveOnIn.com, and BizSlate. Columbia MBA, Tulane BS.