WiredBenefits Management Team
The management and technical teams at WiredBenefits include industry veterans from market
leading benefits, healthcare, loyalty card and transaction processing companies across the country.
The WiredBenefits team has delivered state-of-the-art, fully functional, compliant, administrative
and member worksites to the country's leading payroll providers and TPAs since 1999.
Charles Marshall, President and CEO
Charles Marshall is the CEO and co-founder of WiredBenefits. He brings over 30 years of experience
in building companies, products and services to meet the needs of healthcare providers, consumers and employers.
Charles started his career at HP, after receiving his MBA from UCLA, where he served in a number of
management and executive roles in their International and Medical Electronics Divisions. He left HP
in the early 90's and has since co-founded four companies in the financial services and employee
benefits' automation industries that have either gone public or been successfully acquired. His last
company, WiredCommute, is the back office provider for Sec. 132 flex account benefits administration
for the nation's leading payroll providers including ADP and Ceridian. WiredCommute was
acquired in 2004 by Accor Corporation of France.
Mr. Marshall also served as chairman of Dealix, Inc., a leading online shopping and media platform
for the automotive industry. He is chairman of the Law Enforcement Technology Information Exchange (LETIX),
a non-profit he co-founded that is developing online solutions, in cooperation with leading financial
services providers, for law enforcement agencies.
Larry van der Veen, Chief Technology Officer
Larry has spent forty-four years in Information Technology as an applied software engineering manager,
professional consultant, chief technologist, and senior manager of broad-based IT and technical support groups.
His engineering management and software development competence had as its foundation ten years of
programming and managing projects for NASA's Pioneer Venus project, followed by employment and consulting
engagements to develop and deploy mission critical business applications and their underlying platforms.
Participating as a senior executive, he has managed large groups, ranging up to 200 people, providing
technical services to external and internal customers. The roles that Larry has managed include IT,
Software Engineering, Service Operations, and consultancy practices for companies including WiredBenefits Inc.,
Accor Services USA, WebTV, Lotus Development (Vanguard Business Solutions), Pyramid Technology, Data General,
Fortune, GRiD Systems, Digital Equipment, and Compression Labs.
With the rapid growth of internet and wireless related companies, Larry provided IT and operations
management within many venture start-ups, assuming leadership of IT, service operations, engineering,
and projects office organizations. Recent experiences with WiredBenefits, WiredCommute LLC (acquired by
Accor Services USA), WebTV (acquired my Microsoft), and Vanguard Business solutions (acquired by Lotus
Development) have proven his skills in understanding requirements and building organizations and systems
to support front-line service and back-office systems strategic imperatives.
Stephen Manthey, Chief Financial Officer
Stephen Manthey is the CFO for WiredBenefits with complete responsibility for all finance, accounting,
and administrative functions. He has over 29 years experience with extensive knowledge of credit card
programs and management.
Stephen worked for over 10 years with First Data Corp and over 13 years with Accor, SA. Accor Services,
SA is the world's largest, prepaid card company and hotel company based in Paris, France. He has been
an officer and board member for numerous companies throughout his career including most recently WiredCommute.
Stephen also has expertise in Mergers, Acquisitions and IPO's having completed over 11 to date.
He has been recognized by the Association of Financial Professionals as one of the country's top 300 Treasurers.
He has also served on various banking, NACHA and finance committees along with being a frequent guest speaker
and author for various finance education and banking seminars.
Stephen Manthey received his Master of Science in Business from Colorado State University in 1981
specializing in Finance; and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from CSU in 1980. He is a
Certified Treasury Professional.
Jib Martens, Vice President of Sales
Jib Martens heads up worldwide sales for WiredBenefits. He is an entrepreneur with extensive perspective
on the health care market with over twenty years of sales, business development, strategic planning,
financial and clinical management experience in the healthcare industry. He has successfully launched,
built, managed and financed new and established companies.
Prior to joining WiredBenefits, Jib was a Principal at JHD Group, founded and ran Risk and Reinsurance
Advisory Services, LLC, QuickCompliance, LLC (a healthcare e-learning company) and Beacon Partners
(a business development and financial advisory firm,) was an executive at Confer Software (a disease
management company,) an Associate Partner at Accenture, a Senior Associate at APM Healthcare Consulting
and a Banking Officer at Chemical Bank (now JPMorgan Chase).
Jib holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College where he was
an Edward Tuck Scholar and holds a BA in economics with a concentration in physics from Middlebury College
where he graduated cum laude.
Gregory Strauss, Vice President of Business Development
Gregory brings 18 years of healthcare sales, marketing, financial and strategic planning experience
to WiredBenefits. Mr. Strauss oversees global health and wellness business development and partnership
activities with Fortune 500 organizations, health plans, healthcare vendors, consulting organizations,
pharmaceutical companies, and government entities.
Prior to joining WiredBenefits, Mr. Strauss developed and launched the healthcare programming at
IncentOne a leading integrated incentive solutions provider, serving as the
Vice President of Sales, Health and Productivity Solutions. Mr. Strauss has guided design and delivery
of strategic partnerships around the improvement of health and wellness program utilization for Fortune 500
companies and large healthcare organizations across the country.
Previously Gregory led all sales and marketing activities as the Director of Sales for Pharos Innovations,
a health technology organization that focuses on remote patient engagement and behavior change in
members with chronic diseases.
Mr. Strauss has held various sales positions at GlaxoSmithKline, is a member of the American College of
Healthcare Executives, Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum, graduate of Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
and the former Communications Chairman of the Lake Forest Caucus Committee.
Kevin Spencer, Director of Customer Service
Kevin Spencer is the Director of Customer Service for WiredBenefits, and oversees all facets of making
customers successful. He has over 10 years of experience working with financial services institutions.
Kevin started his career in Customer Service with Bank of America, quickly working his way up through the
ranks. He was recognized numerous times for outstanding service and sales achievements. Using his approach to
customer service and sales, Kevin assisted in developing training modules. He helped facilitate each segment
in new hire training classes, which had a positive impact on success as measured through statistics gathered
across the center.
After several promotions within the department, he went on to manage other successful teams, helping
develop and pilot new programs that were implemented throughout five different call centers in California
and acted as MBNA conversion site champion. One of his notable achievements was being recognized as one of
the top call center managers nationwide for consistently surpassing organizational goals, exceeding targeted
performance variances and contributing to process improvements.
Chris Kocher, Director of Products
Chris Kocher heads up marketing and product management at WiredBenefits. He brings over 25 years of
experience working with large Global 2000 companies as well as early stage startups.
Chris began his career at Hewlett-Packard and was responsible for managing the introduction of some
of HP's pioneering technologies including HP's first laser printer, first PC, and early client server
systems. He went on to manage one of HP's initial Independent Software Vendor programs before leaving
to be a VP GM at Symantec where he grew one of the acquired business units from start up to a $25M business.
Since leaving Symantec, Chris has advised over 100 early stage companies on accelerating revenues and
increasing company valuations. Many of them went on to receive further rounds of funding, mergers, buyouts
and other liquidity events for investors. He has also advised Visa, Account Now and other financial service
companies on growth initiatives.
He holds an MBA from Columbia University in marketing and international business and a BA from Princeton University
in Political Science and International Affairs.