Howden Employee Benefits has appointed Jeff Fox as executive director, platform and engagement solutions.
Reporting to Cheryl Brennan, managing director of Howden Employee Benefits, Fox (pictured) will lead the continued development of Howden’s platform and engagement strategy, including its flex proposition and communications capabilities.
Fox joins from Lockton, where he was specialty services lead, heading its specialist employee benefits team.
He previously spent 11 years at Aon as a principal, and has also held senior consultancy roles at Benefex, Mercer and KPMG.
He will work across the wider employee benefits business to bring together technology, data, insight, artificial intelligence, automation and communications.
Brennan said: “There is a significant opportunity to rethink the role technology plays in employee benefits.
“Employers increasingly expect more than a platform to administer their programmes – they want better insight, simpler experiences, stronger engagement and demonstrable value from their investment.
“Jeff’s appointment is an important part of that ambition. We intend to lead this market rather than follow it, and to build an employee technology and engagement proposition that becomes a compelling choice for employers.”
Jeff Fox, executive director, platform and engagement solutions, said: “The opportunity is much bigger than building a better benefits platform. The future is about connecting insight, advice, technology and engagement so employers can make better decisions and employees can get more value from the benefits available to them.
“Technology should remove complexity rather than create it. Too often, strong benefits strategies fall short at the point of delivery because employees do not understand or engage with what is available to them.
“Data and AI can help us better understand what employees need, automation can make benefits easier to manage, and great communications can turn a benefits programme into something employees genuinely understand and value.“