Our Company

Jon Kessler has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since 2014 and as a director since 2009. He also served as our Executive Chairman from 2009 to 2014. During Jon’s tenure, revenue has grown from a few million to over $750M annually, HSA assets have grown from under $100M to nearly $20B, and HealthEquity has become the nation’s largest independent custodian of HSAs.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Jon founded WageWorks, Inc., (“WageWorks”) a provider of tax-advantaged Consumer Directed Benefit (CDB) account administration. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO from 2000 through 2007, WageWorks was named to the Inc. 500 list of US private growth companies for three consecutive years. HealthEquity acquired WageWorks in 2019.

Jon was also previously a senior economist in Washington, DC, specializing in employee benefits and environmental taxation during the Clinton and Bush (Sr.) administrations, and a benefits taxation specialist at Arthur Andersen, LLP.

"Once you really understand how an HSA plan works, you will never go back to conventional health insurance. I am proud to say that nobody supports families making the jump to HSAs like HealthEquity. Whether it’s reviewing hospital bills for errors, using claims-level analysis to find specific ways to spend less, or creating a plan to build health savings for the long term, our specialists walk you through it, anytime, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week."

Jon holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He holds a US patent for inventions covering methods for electronically adjudicating pre-tax healthcare and other expense transactions.

Jon currently serves as Trustee and Executive Committee Member of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank created by Congress to conduct non-partisan economic research and analysis on our nation’s unique voluntary employee benefits system. Formerly, Jon was a member of the Board of Directors for the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate Organization, which provides a curriculum based on values of global citizenship used in over 6,000 schools on six continents. Jon is also past Board President of the German American International School in Menlo Park, California.

Dr. Stephen Neeleman is the founder and vice chairman of HealthEquity. Steve founded HealthEquity in 2002, with the vision to repair the fractured relationship between patients and their physicians and to help more people obtain quality health insurance by re-introducing consumerism to health care. Steve is the co-author of The Complete HSA Guidebook—How to Make Health Savings Accounts Work for You.

In addition to his duties as founder and vice chairman of HealthEquity, Steve was also a practicing general and trauma surgeon for Intermountain Healthcare at American Fork Hospital and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center until 2015. As a board-certified physician, Steve brings his passion and firsthand knowledge from the practice of medicine to his leadership role at HealthEquity.

Steve was appointed by Utah's Governor, Gary Herbert, to serve as a board member of HIP Utah, Utah's high-risk insurance pool. He also serves on the Council for Affordable Health Insurance HSA Working Group, and on America's Health Insurance Plans' HSA Leadership Council.

Prior to his medical training, Steve worked as the general airport manager for Morris Air (later acquired by Southwest Airlines), based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Steve helped combine efficiency, technology, and excellent customer service to succeed in a rocky industry. This innovative business model allowed Morris Air to rise above financially struggling competitors. Steve's goal is to use this model to help save another struggling industry—health care.

Steve completed his undergraduate degree and played football at Utah State University. He attended medical school at the University of Utah and completed his surgical training at the University of Arizona. Steve also served as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona.

"HealthEquity's mission is to save health care by helping people better save and spend their health care dollars. HSAs are key to our mission and they are quickly changing the way the people purchase, consume, and provide health care. HealthEquity's remarkable team members help individuals, families, and businesses understand and reap the triple-tax advantaged benefits that come with HSAs. I love being part of this team!"

Tyson Murdock joined HealthEquity in January 2018 and currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining HealthEquity, Mr. Murdock worked in various roles at eBay, Inc. originally as part of the Mergers and Acquisition team and later as the CFO of eBay Marketplace’s Global Customer Experience. Prior to joining eBay, Inc., Mr. Murdock worked as a senior manager at Ernst & Young in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving a variety of public and private audit clients. Mr. Murdock holds a B.S. and a Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Del Ladd serves as the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of HealthEquity, Inc. and leads our Legal Department. He has substantial experience in corporate governance, securities and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining HealthEquity in 2016, Del worked in New York for Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado and St. John's School of Law, where he graduated cum laude.

Larry Trittschuh is the chief security officer of HealthEquity. Larry leads information security, privacy, fraud prevention, incident response, physical security teams, compliance as well as the enterprise risk department.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Larry served as chief security officer for Barclays Americas. Larry’s professional background also includes senior vice president, information security for Synchrony Financial and various information security roles at General Electric. Larry has been an active participant in shaping cybersecurity partnership strategies in both industry and government. He was a founding Board member of the Defense Security Information Exchange (DSIE) and served on the Board of Directors of the Internet Security Alliance.

Prior to joining GE, Larry served as a pilot in the United States Air Force and Senior Consultant for BearingPoint, a management and technology consulting firm. He holds a bachelors degree in political science from the United States Air Force Academy and an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate with nearly 3,000 total flight hours.

With more than 25 years of business and technology leadership experience, Eli leads the Technology organization with a focus on security, unification, and simplification to create a better customer experience for more than 14 million members. Eli is responsible for all aspects of the HealthEquity technology strategy and driving innovation. Eli’s teams are dedicated to delivering modern and mature technology solutions to scale and digitally transform our business through AI, cloud, open APIs and open development platforms.

Prior to joining HealthEquity in 2022, Eli was Chief Product and Technology Officer at Finistra, one of the largest global providers of software to the financial services industry. There he was responsible for Product strategy, product management, platform strategy and architecture, to solutions development and data center operations. Immediately prior to Finistra, Eli served as CTO and Head of Product Management, driving the transformation from a hardware and services company to a global leader in platform, data and solutions for financial services, retail, and hospitality.

Eli received a B.A. and B.S. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Tia leads the Marketing and Communication department in our efforts to increase public awareness, adoption, and utilization of consumer driven benefits. She’s passionate about helping individuals achieve greater financial freedom by regaining control of their health and wealth. Tia’s team is responsible for new account growth, retention, and member engagement.

Tia has 20+ years of diverse financial services experience—most recently serving as the Head of Workplace Marketing at Edelman Financial Engines. Along with a proven track record of business growth, Tia has extensive experience partnering with employers to create compelling employee education and engagement programs.

Tia has a BBA in Accounting and Finance from Midwestern State University and an MBA from Texas Woman’s University.

Brad Bennion serves as the senior vice president of corporate development. He leads HealthEquity's strategic planning process by improving core organization capabilities as well as identifying new markets and channels.

Brad has been instrumental in the development of the HealthEquity proprietary account administration platform and has directly implemented many of the company's largest partners and clients. Drawing upon his years of experience in both implementation and account management, Brad is leading the company's corporate development, strategy and decision support functions. He is passionate about using data analytics to help the company make incrementally better decisions every day.

Prior to joining HealthEquity 12 years ago, Brad worked for Ingenix as a senior business analyst. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in finance from Brigham Young University.

Steve leads the Sales and Relationship Management team to connect health and wealth in ways that create measurable value to our clients and partners. Together with the Sales and Relationship Management team, Steve cultivates new business, strengthens existing relationships, and ensures our clients and partners get a purple service experience.

As the first non-founding executive hired at HealthEquity, Steve has been with the company since 2006. Steve has led the people function, member services, operations, channel sales and now sales and relationship management. His deep experience continues to pay dividends for the organization. During Steve’s tenure with the company, HealthEquity’s network partnerships grew from 10 to 175+, an expansion that includes health plans, record keepers, benefits administrators, brokers and consultants. Steve also contributed to the WageWorks integration success by championing our cross-sell Total Solution strategy.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Steve led people functions within FranklinCovey and UnitedHealth Group for 14 years. Steve volunteers at organizations like Dahlia's Hope and The Road Home that give hope and strengthens individuals and families to become self-reliant despite significant obstacles.