HealthEquity CEO and leadership

Jon Kessler is the president and CEO of HealthEquity, managing the company’s day-to-day operations and leading the Board of Directors. He joined HealthEquity in 2009.

Jon is the founder of WageWorks (NYSE: WAGE), a provider of tax-advantaged programs for consumer-directed health, commuter and other employee spending account benefits. During his tenure as chairman and CEO from 2000 through 2007, WageWorks was named to the Inc. 500 list of US private growth companies three consecutive years, growing from zero to nearly $100m in sales. 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.

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 is an advisory board member of the Innovation in Insurance program of the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business.

Larry Trittschuh is an Independent Director at Shumsky and Executive Vice President, Chief Security Officer at HealthEquity Inc and is based in Draper, Utah. He has worked as Executive Director, Global Information Security Operations at General Electric (GE); Senior Vice President, Threat & Vulnerability Management at SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL; and Officer at United States Air Force. Larry attended United States Air Force Academy between 1989 and 1993.

Ted serves as the chief operating officer of HealthEquity managing the company's day-to-day operations. He leads our service delivery and operations, technology, sales, product and marketing teams.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Ted was senior vice president of operations, strategy and support for Financial Engines. Financial Engines offers objective investment advice to over nine million people through its relationships with hundreds of large employers and retirement plan recordkeepers nationwide. Immediately prior to Financial Engines, Ted served as the chief operating officer of The Mutual Fund Store, a large registered investment advisor that was sold to Financial Engines in 2016. Before that, Ted served 10 years in various capacities of leadership at TD Ameritrade.

Ted holds a bachelor of arts degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

Jon Kessler is the president and CEO of HealthEquity, managing the company’s day-to-day operations and leading the Board of Directors. He joined HealthEquity in 2009.

Jon is the founder of WageWorks (NYSE: WAGE), a provider of tax-advantaged programs for consumer-directed health, commuter and other employee spending account benefits. During his tenure as chairman and CEO from 2000 through 2007, WageWorks was named to the Inc. 500 list of US private growth companies three consecutive years, growing from zero to nearly $100m in sales. 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.

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 is an advisory board member of the Innovation in Insurance program of the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business.