US healthcare benefits broker Nava Benefits has appointed Patrick Kehoe as chief operating officer (COO).
Kehoe (pictured) will be responsible for scaling the company’s benefit consulting, client success and operations teams to deliver more modern affordable healthcare benefits to employers.
He joins from commercial real estate technology company VTS where he was COO for more than three years. Before that, he was SVP of commercial operations at technology business Hightower.
Brandon Weber, co-founder and chief executive officer at Nava Benefits, said: “Healthcare and benefit innovation is not making its way down market, which is leading to spiralling costs for many employers and frustrating experiences for their employees.
“We’ve built Nava to fix that, and to do so we must reimagine the industry’s approach to client success and service delivery.
“With Patrick joining, we’re able to bring together the best of benefits, technology and operations expertise to reimagine what is possible in our broken healthcare ecosystem and make a great impact for our clients and the industry at large.”
Kehoe added: “Brokered industries typically rely on outdated models, old technologies, and passed-down relationships. In order to truly change healthcare benefits from the inside out, you need to invest in the people, technology, and operations to reimagine the broker’s function and impact.
“Nava is doing just that and I’m looking forward to leveraging my expertise and joining the company’s ambitious mission.”
