Overview

Gender

male

As a serial entrepreneur, Jay Mason has a passion for uncovering opportunities that are disruptive innovations and building wildly successful enterprises.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in business management and marketing from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse in 1980. Throughout college he was a Kemper Scholar, one of its first recipients in the country.

He worked at CNA Insurance and Principal Financial before starting Professional Insurance Planners of America in 1986, where he achieved one of the top designations as a leading employee benefits agency in Wisconsin. In 1988, Jay launched National Employee Benefits, one of the first chiropractic benefit management firms in the country.

Over the next eight years, Jay built NEB to an industry leader serving many managed care plans. Seeing a growing opportunity within complementary benefits, he sought out and led in the merger with American WholeHealth(AWH) in 1998. AWH became the leader in complementary and alternative benefits, with over 30,000 contracted providers and 20 million covered lives.

As a venture backed company, investors received a 10x return when the company was sold in 2005. Jay served on the Board of Directors of Congo Initiative from 2006-2009. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Concordia University of Wisconsin and on the Board of Directors of the Christian Stewardship Foundation.