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Chief Technology Officer

Founded in 2007, Empyrean Benefit Solutions is a leading provider of technology and services for managing large and middle-market employers' health and benefits programs. Empyrean provides enrollment, eligibility management, and a range of other plan administration services to three distinct markets: employers, insurance brokers, and healthcare exchanges. The company's open systems approach brings together the industry's most advanced benefits technology platform with the market's leading domain experts. This agile business solution drives greater value to employers and employees during increasing market uncertainty by giving them an unprecedented level of flexibility, through best-of-breed integration of other software and service providers. Empyrean's founders are former principals with some of the country's largest benefits administration service providers.

Ted has spent most of his career building operational teams and creating cost-effective, secure, and nimble technology solutions and organizations.As Chief Technology Officer at Empyrean Benefit Solutions, Ted is responsible for the design and development of all application platforms, as well as the technical infrastructure and cyber security. As President & Managing Partner at ParkIT Ventures, LLC and as Operating Partner at NueCura Partners, LLC, Ted is involved in Angel Investing with a focus on Healthcare and Healthcare IT companies.Formerly, as SVP of Operations and Technology for Fleet One, LLC, a commercial credit card company based in Nashville, Ted helped grow the business organically for eleven years, resulting in the sale of the business to WEX, Inc. in October 2012. During his 11 years at Fleet One, LLC, he was an integral part of the management team which purchased the company from SunTrust with the aid of two private equity firms, then sold it four years later to a public company, WEX Inc.From 2006-2011 Ted also served as CTO for change:healthcare, LLC (now Change Healthcare, Inc.) For 5 years, Ted was involved in all aspects of startups including: concept, technical design, deployment, and branding.