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2024 UGC Wrap Up| Oklahoma City, OK
MORE THAN 200 TAFT-HARTLEY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS GATHERED IN THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND FOR THE 2024 USERS GROUP...
We proudly serve millions of union members and their families across the United States and Canada by providing trust fund offices, multiemployer plans and third-party administrators with a robust suite of software solutions and web portals for managing contributions, eligibility, claims processing, retirement plan administration and more.
With more than 45-years industry experience in Taft-Hartley benefits administration, Bridgeway products and services are designed to help our customers best serve their members through a wide range of capabilities built for data security, regulatory compliance and a lower cost of ownership and deep expertise grounded in the dedication, long tenure and impressive industry experience of our more than 380 employees.
Through the unmatched strength of two robust industry-leading technology platforms, we uniquely meet the needs of more than 1,500 multiemployer benefit funds in the Taft-Hartley market, as well as self-insured corporations and non-profit groups. Our BASYS and ISSI platform suites means we can deliver greater choice, enhanced capabilities and superior service delivery that drives efficiency, automation and cost savings for smaller operations through to complex organizations.
Todd Plesko
Chief Executive Officer
A healthcare software executive with nearly 30 years of experience and a personal connection to labor unions, Plesko drives the company’s strategic vision and champions its guiding principles of making decisions through the lens of delivering value to customers, employees and partners, and investing and evolving to optimize the organization. Active on a number of boards he brings deep experience heading several software-as-a-service companies ranging from start-up to mature growth-oriented organizations. Under Plesko's leadership Bridgeway is positioned to innovate and scale its comprehensive suite of benefits administration technology services to the multiemployer sector.
Jeff Herman
Executive Vice President
A customer-focused leader with more than 20 years of experience driving sales growth and market penetration in multiemployer, commercial and industrial sectors, Herman heads the company’s growing sales and marketing organization. He oversees the company’s overarching revenue strategy, with the goals of maximizing customer retention, building strategic alliances and driving business expansion. Delivering leading benefits administration information technology solutions to Taft-Hartley self-administered fund offices and third-party administrators, Herman is a noted thought leader and sought-after industry speaker.
Brian Pearson
Chief Technology Officer
A global technology executive and detail-oriented leader with a proven track record of success across a wide range of business processes, Pearson fosters talented teams and enacts dynamic strategies to maintain, secure, and evolve the company’s software platform infrastructure. Pearson, an accomplished change leader and industry veteran with 23 years of IT organization experience architects and drives innovation across Bridgeway’s technical services, information security, and enterprise engineering divisions.
Deb Pearson
Senior Vice President, Customer Success
Pearson shapes Bridgeway’s comprehensive customer success strategy and drives strategic initiatives in alignment with organizational goals to enhance customer satisfaction. Throughout her three decades of experience in healthcare-related organizations Pearson has demonstrated widespread experience in delivering scalable and consistent customer service to ensure maximum value for clients.
Josh Mahler
Senior Vice President, Professional Services
Mahler directs the project planning, scheduling, and resource management for all new and existing client workstreams, including implementation and consulting, and scales practices to anticipate customer demand. He has fourteen years of experience in aligning customer needs with professional service offerings and technical support to enable successful deployment outcomes.
Erin Harriot
Vice President, Human Capital
Harriot leads the strategic efforts of Bridgeway’s Human Capital team to maintain a growing, equitable, and diverse workforce, establish organizational development strategies, and foster strong staff engagement. Harriot has twenty years of extensive human resources experience in benefits management, strategic recruiting, performance management, employee relations, and service.
Adam Hand
General Counsel
Hand directs contract negotiations, advises the executive team and Board of Directors, and manages Bridgeway’s legal staff. He has more than eighteen years of broad experience in the software-as-a-service space and is accomplished in contract negotiations, federal and state compliance, strategic planning, and risk assessment, particularly among healthcare technology providers.
Eric Cummins
Chief Financial Officer
Cummins oversees Bridgeway’s forward-thinking finance infrastructure and controls to continually support planned growth initiatives, improve financial performance, and maximize organizational effectiveness. He brings twenty years of experience in the financial technology sector leading organizations offering payments and banking solutions across a variety of industries.