Doug Benner MD, MS serves as the Chief Medical Officer of EK Health Services, Inc., where he plays a vital role in the operations and oversight of EK Health’s medical service practices. Dr. Benner holds unrestricted medical licenses in California and Indiana and has Lifetime Board Certification in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Benner is a diplomate of the American Board of Preventative Medicine in Occupational Medicine and was certified as an Independent Medical Examiner and Medical Review Officer. He is currently enrolled in a Masters of Science Program at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Pharmacy.
 
Dr. Benner has spent over 35 years working with workers’ compensation insurers, self-insured employers and public agencies, including creating 31 Occupational Health clinics and the Employee Health Services program for the Northern California Region. Dr. Benner spent 29 years as Program Leader of Occupational Medicine Services and Employee Health in the largest private multi-specialty medical group in the world. Dr. Benner brings a wealth of experience and clinical expertise to EK Health Services and to the workers’ compensation industry.

As the founder and CEO of EK Health Services, Eunhee Kim sets the tone for the company’s integrity, entrepreneurial innovation, and unwavering commitment to excellence. In addition to over 20 years of workers’ compensation experience as a nurse case manager, Eunhee Kim has worked directly within the healthcare field for over 35 years. Her experience includes acute hospital nursing, home health nursing, and case management services for catastrophic, orthopedic, spinal, traumatic brain injury, and psychiatric injuries, as well as chronic pain, cardiac diseases, diabetes mellitus and stress-related disorders.

Additionally, Eunhee has almost 20 years of experience in building managed care software, developing case management, utilization review, and bill management systems, supervising, teaching and training in multicultural nursing and cultural competencies. To this day, Eunhee carries an active caseload to keep her workers' compensation case management experience current. Her day-to-day involvement provides her first-hand knowledge of the best industry practices and standards. It also affords her uniquely beneficial insight as she actively engages as the executive head of both EK Health Services and DataCare Corporation.

As a career technologist, Ron Carter designed and built his first software at the age of 15 and knew what he wanted to do for life. Starting as a developer, then working in quality assurance, and later designing databases and becoming an architect, Carter enjoyed learning from the many roles and their particular perspectives on system design and construction. It was only natural for Carter to take on CIO roles across the financial and commercial healthcare industries, ultimately making his way to the workers’ compensation industry.  
 
The innovation and transformation culture and competencies taught to Ron over an entire career were fully required when he founded RxBridge. Focused on innovation and transformation, while centered around customization and the Injured Worker Experience, Carter can still be found at the whiteboard ideating with customers – designing and building technology to solve some of the pain of today’s workers’ compensation industry.

Brian is a highly specialized insurance broker in the workers’ compensation space with over 30 years of experience. He earned his MBA from Drexel University and Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and holds both the CPCU and AIC designations.  Brian is currently serving as President for the National Retain and Restaurant Defense Association.
 
Brian currently assists self-funded employers reduce the overall cost of their workers’ compensation claims. He focuses on reducing the cost of delivering benefits to injured employees while at the same time improving the benefits they receive after suffering a work-related injury. Strategies are evidence-based with metrics and benchmarks developed over many years. In previous roles, Brian was responsible for establishing claim handling procedures and guidelines, settlement authority, auditing claim files, advising adjusters and defense counsel on strategy, selecting defense counsel and other vendors, deciding which strategy to employ, recommending investigations, and selecting service providers, including TPAs, investigators and medical case management and repricing companies.

With 19+ years of experience in workers’ compensation and 19+ years of experience as a clinician in private practice, Dr. Crafts brings tenured knowledge in workers’ compensation as a primary treating physician. His 17 years of experience as Qualified Medical Evaluator provides vast knowledge and expertise from a med-legal standpoint in workers’ compensation. As an assistant professor for 7 years, and in addition to lecturing on clinical courses, he also taught on the practice of workers’ compensation.

He was a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for physicians taking the Qualified Medical Evaluator state exam; he was one of two chiropractors chosen to sit with 18 other MDs to determine pass/fail rates for applicants.  He continues to teach board approved continuing education courses over the past 6 years.

Jennifer Ryon has over sixteen years of experience in client success strategy, revenue growth, account management, and driving customer value in the medical cost containment field. Currently an independent consultant, in her most recent industry role, she was ultimately responsible for securing the functionality of the company to drive sustainable growth, including revenue growth, driving customer value and national revenue, and customer success strategies.

Focused on all operations, she directed innovative delivery solutions, efficiencies, marketing integration, and customer service to address customer requirements and drive business growth. As part of her oversight of daily operations, she designed, implemented, and evaluated business strategies, performance goals, plans, and procedures, leading employees to maximum performance while promoting a healthy culture. She was responsible for building employee alignment with company goals and meeting key organizational targets.

Committed to the industry and women’s growth, she has been a passionate Board Member for the Alliance of Women in Workers’ Compensation since January 2019. Currently Jennifer holds the Vice President position within the board.

Zebrah Jahnke brings over 15 years’ experience managing large scale managed care programs for employers, carriers, public entities and all related parties. She also has 25 years of experience in sales, public relations and account management, including maintaining high-profile clientele, providing detailed customer service and fostering an exceptionally high client retention rate. As the VP of Business Development for EK Health, Zebrah maintains global responsibilities over the Sales, Marketing, and Account Management division and leads teams with responsibility over all client programs both pre-and post-contract for all of EK Health.

Key to her role in executive leadership within EK Health, Zebrah is responsible for creating strategic business partnerships and driving new revenue sources for the organization.

Daniel Romo serves as Senior Vice President, Risk Consulting for Fairly Group. He has 32 years of experience in risk management, claims management, and loss control, including 17 years with Fairly Group, where he advises clients in all facets of risk management. Prior to joining Fairly Group, he was the Corporate Loss Control & Risk Manager for a national distribution firm, where he honed skills in out-performing industry cost-of-risk standards.

As a veteran in the entertainment/sports arena, Romo’s areas of expertise include occupational injuries, sports injuries, construction, stadiums/arenas, transportation, property, environmental, safety training, and OSHA compliance. He brings a fresh perspective and thorough understanding of effective risk and claims management strategies. Experienced in working with self-insureds, insurance carriers, TPAs, and managed care vendors to mitigate losses, Romo has achieved a high level of success in developing effective risk control programs from all sides.

His collegiate degrees and formal education include Risk Management & Insurance, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Health, Hazardous Materials Technology, and Paramedicine. His leadership, knowledge, and background serve as an integral component to the Fairly Group team and their clients.

Kerri Wilson serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of EK Health Services, Inc. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, Kerri leads business strategy and planning, provides market insights to support EK Health's operational and strategic initiatives, and informs the CEO agenda. Kerri has over 25 years of experience in the workers’ compensation insurance and managed care industries. Prior to EK Health, Kerri worked in various claims operational and leadership roles for a national workers’ compensation insurer.

Since joining EK Health in 2011, Kerri has been integral in supporting business operational leadership, optimizing outcomes and efficiencies, implementing new products and leading strategic initiatives.

Kerri is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and earned a Master of Business Administration, Business Management from St. Edward’s University and a Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Spanish from the University of Southern California.

Danielle Lisenbey recently joined the MedRisk executive leadership team as President to develop long-term strategic plans to further MedRisk’s growth and increment margin accretion. As President, she will drive strategic initiatives for enhanced customer, patient, provider, and employee experiences. Prior to joining MedRisk, Lisenbey was the first female member of the Crawford & Company global executive team, who worked to increase Crawford’s global third party administration footprint, deliver continuous operational improvement, and develop long-term strategic plans to expand business development and collaborations with clients. Danielle was the Global President of Crawford’s Global TPA division, Broadspire, a leading third party administrator in the insurance industry. Previously, Lisenbey served as the president and chief executive officer of the company’s US division.
 
From her engineering background, Lisenbey learned the benefits of combining a “process way of thinking” with interpersonal strengths to achieve superior results. During early career choices, she partnered architectural design, structural engineering and employee dynamics with sales, marketing, and budgetary concerns that ensured quality outcomes for her clients. Lisenbey’s broad qualifications, collective skills and the robust knowledge attained from more than 27 years of industry experience has equipped her to overcome each progressive challenge she encounters.
 
Lisenbey, is also involved with community and industry organizations as she is an executive board member for the insurance industry Alliance of Women in Worker’s Compensation, the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce and retired board member for the Atlanta non-profit Moving in the Spirit.
 
In the past she was recognized as a 2019 CEO Connection – Most Influential Women in Mid-Markets, Woman Who Means Business through the 2018 Atlanta Business Chronicle as well as Top 100 Executives in Insurance by the Insurances Business of America. She has various awards throughout her career demonstrating her commitment to providing leadership and influence both within the industry and her community.
 
Lisenbey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and technology from Western Illinois University.

Jake Reason, Vice President, Medicare Set-Aside Services, EK Health, has over 20 years of experience working in the workers’ compensation industry with 17 of those years spent directly in the Medicare Set-Aside arena.  He has worked on more than 100,000+ set-side allocations and has worked successfully with many national insurers, self-insured employers, and third-party administrators.
 
His prior experience in the workers’ compensation industry includes time spent working as a Senior Claims Examiner, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and a Litigation Case Manager for a plaintiff’s law firm.  Additionally, during the course of his time working in the MSA industry, Jake has had exposure to numerous catastrophic claims.  These claims include traumatic brain injuries, quadriplegic and paraplegic injuries, amputations, crush and de-gloving injuries and burn cases.  In assessing these cases, Jake has developed relationships with a number of clinical specialists and has the relevant resources required to produce accurate and coherent future medical allocations on all complex case scenarios.
 
A graduate of Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business & Management, Mr. Reason holds NASD Series 6, 7, and 63 securities licenses from the National Association of Securities Dealers and a State of California Life and Health Insurance Agent license. He is an industry recognized speaker on MSA issues and regularly participates in educational sessions and seminars.

Angela's 25 years of expertise is in human resources, social work, and organizational development coaching as an executive business leader, author and speaker. She is an advocate and champion for women, and also for the practice of Conscious Capitalism in today’s business world. Angela spent 3 years in Iraq as an HR defense contractor supporting the US military and contractors from all over the world. She was one of 16 women on base facing harsh war zone conditions and difficult challenges as a woman in particular. Her story is one of courage, authentic leadership, emotional composure, and resilience.

Angela is CEO the Corporate Talent Institute and founder of The School of Executive Presence™. The school focuses on life changing experiences for aspiring leaders, and executives, through public events, workshops, mastermind and virtual coaching programs, and private engagements. Angela is also founder of the VIP Center for Business Women, Indianapolis's first all-women co-working, meeting, and event space. She and her team provide personal and professional development coaching for corporate and entrepreneurial women.

As an award-winning author, Angela coaches business people to remodel their talent and build executive presence.

Angela's books:
From Invisible to Incredible
The School of Executive Presence Prompt Journal
Compose Your Soul: How to Turn Your Daily Chaos Into Calm

Aimee Boggs has over 25 years of experience in the nursing and workers’ compensation managed care industry. Prior to EK Health, Aimee worked in various case management leadership roles including Manager of Case Management Continuum, Manager of Nursing/Managed Care, and Senior Managed Care Specialist.

Before progressing to these leadership roles, she developed a solid foundation for nursing and clinical case management as a Clinical Nurse and Case Manager. Aimee is a Registered Nurse (RN) and has earned a Masters of Science, Health Informatics from the University of South Florida, and a Bachelor of Science, Nursing from the same institution. She also earned an Associate Degree in Nursing from South Georgia College.

Beth Hostetler, RN, BSN, is a nurse with over thirty years’ experience in the field of disability management and cost containment services in workers’ compensation. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. She has been a certified Life Care Planner and has been Certified Medicare Set- Aside Allocator, and Certified Medicare Secondary Payer Professional. Her experience includes nearly fifteen years as Branch Manager in the Healthcare Division of Crawford & Company as well as several years as owner of her own company which provided case management, life care planning and Medicare set-aside services.

Presently, she is the Director of Medicare Services & Medical Provider Programs in the Corporate Risk Management Department of Albertson’s Companies which is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. She has developed Albertson’s internal MSP Compliance program for Workers Compensation which includes policy and procedure for MMSEA Section 111 reporting, conditional payment identification and resolution and the MSA program. She routinely provides internal training on Medicare Secondary Payer compliance and all aspects of the MSA process. Additionally, she oversees various medical programs and the associated vendor relationships. These include provider networks, nurse triage, bill review, physical therapy, diagnostics and durable medical equipment.