New Perspectives in Employer Health Plans: From Expert Insight to Peer Discussion

Gain practical insight and connect with industry colleagues at this upcoming program designed for benefits professionals. The event will begin with a presentation by Ashley Vander Linde, Head of Sales at AffirmedRx, who will share new approaches and current trends in pharmacy benefit management.

Following Ashley’s presentation, participate in an open discussion focused on today’s key challenges and opportunities in employer health plans. This collaborative format is intended to foster meaningful peer exchange and actionable ideas.

The program concludes with a networking happy hour, offering the chance to continue conversations and build professional relationships in an informal setting.

Participation is encouraged.

Speaker:

Ashley Vander Linde

Head of Sales

AffirmedRX

Ashley has worked in the health benefits industry for over a decade, with various roles in sales. Before joining AffirmedRx, she led channel partnerships at Amazon Care, Amazon’s virtual primary care model. In her role she worked with benefits consultants and brokers and developing partnership, referral and sponsorship agreements. Ashley also spent 8 years with Cigna in both international and domestic business as a New Business Manager connecting with benefit’s buyers to mitigate risk across all lines of business.

Ashley was instrumental in securing many of AffirmedRx’s first clients as well as largest clients including many hospitals, a public university, tribal clients, public sector clients and commercial clients while also establishing key relationships in the broker and consultant space. Ashley was also a key person in developing, creating and hosting the Consultant Advisory Board (CAB) and the Analytics and Insights Board (AIB). In Prior roles Ashley frequently qualified for the sales reward trips and was named rookie of the year in her first year of selling.

Special Skills and Expertise: Ashley specializes in relationship building, public speaking and education as well as understanding complex concepts and breaking them down into actionable next steps.

Ashley currently resides in Dallas, TX and enjoys travelling domestically and internationally when not working. Ashley has been to all 50 states and 73 countries and counting.