Stephen D. Neeleman MD
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Stephen Neeleman is the CEO and founder of HealthEquity ( www.healthequity.com ), a personal health care financial service and health savings account company based in Draper, UT. Dr. Neeleman founded HealthEquity to repair the fractured relationship between patients and their physicians and to help more people obtain quality health insurance by re-introducing consumerism into health care.

As a board certified physician, Dr. Neeleman brings to HealthEquity passion and firsthand knowledge from the practice of medicine.

Prior to his medical training, Dr. Neeleman worked as General Manager for Morris Air (later acquired by Southwest Airlines), in Utah. Dr. Neeleman combined 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. Dr. Neeleman's goal is to use this model to help save another struggling industry: American health care.

In addition to his duties as CEO of HealthEquity, Dr. Neeleman is currently a practicing general and trauma surgeon for Intermountain Health Care at American Fork Hospital and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Utah.

Dr. Neeleman was appointed by 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. Dr. Neeleman is a former assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona and the co-author of The Complete HSA Guidebook—How to make health savings accounts work for you!

Dr. Neeleman 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.

Jon Kessler
Executive Chairman

Jon Kessler is Executive Chairman of HealthEquity, the first and largest non-bank custodian of Health Savings Accounts.  Jon previously founded WageWorks, the nation’s largest administrator of employer-sponsored benefit accounts. 

During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, WageWorks was named to the Inc. 500 list of US private growth companies three consecutive years and grew to nearly $100m in revenue. 

Jon was previously a senior economist during the Clinton and Bush (Sr.) Administrations, and a director in the tax consulting practice at Arthur Andersen LLP.  He is also board chairman of health insurance startup Healthcharge.

Jon Kessler joined HealthEquity in early 2009 with a focus on driving the sales and marketing team to success.  Jon adds significant industry experience to an already talented and experienced management team.

Darcy Mott
Chief Financial Officer

Darcy Mott joined HealthEquity as executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer in March 2007. At HealthEquity Darcy is responsible for all finance and accounting operations, along with the legal, purchasing and internal control departments.

Mr. Mott began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. where he served a variety of public and private audit clients in both the Boise and Chicago offices. After nine years, Mr. Mott left public accounting and joined Novell, Inc., a networking software company.

At the company he served for twelve years in variousfinancial management positions, including eight years as treasurer.While at Novell, Mr. Mott had responsibility for all treasuryfunctions, external financial reporting, shareholder services, credit& collections, risk management, internal audit, corporate travel,corporate aviation, and worldwide facilities.

In 1999 Mr. Mott joined The Canopy Group, a technology investment company, as vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer. At Canopy he was responsible for all finance operations and was on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies, both public and private. Since leaving Canopy in December 2004, Mr. Mott has served as an independent investor and business consultant, and has been a part-time employee of ThinkAtomic, Inc., a high-tech development and venture group.

Mr. Mott holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from BYU and is a certified public accountant.

Steve Lindsay
Senior Vice President of Operations

Steve Lindsay is HealthEquity's Senior Vice President of Operations. In this role, Mr. Lindsay leads all aspects of the operational servicing of HealthEquity's members and clients, and is also responsible for the People (HR) function of the company.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Mr. Lindsay served as a vice president at Ingenix.  There Mr. Lindsay played a key role in aligning business functions and people within the organization to facilitate and scale for sustained organic and acquisition-based annual growth of more than 30 percent.

This included identifying and leading the execution ofoperational changes that contributed materially to profitable salesgrowth.

Before joining Ingenix, Mr. Lindsay served as a senior leader for FranklinCovey.  In this capacity he identified and carried out strategic initiatives critical to the successful turn-around of the business' sales effectiveness and operational efficiencies through people as well as to increasing the organization's ability to execute against organizational priorities.

Mr. Lindsay has also served in several leadership roles on the board of the Salt Lake City chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).  He is committed to orginizations that give hope and encouragement to those in need.  Steve is a proven people leader known for accelerating business growth through people.

David Hall
Senior Vice President of Innovations

David Hall is the Senior VP of Innovations for HealthEquity. He was a co-founder of HealthEquity with Dr. Stephen Neeleman, HealthEquity's CEO, in 2002.  The pair first worked together at Morris Air where they observed how efficiency, technology, and customer service could build a successful company even in the most struggling of industries.

Prior to co-founding HealthEquity, Mr. Hall served as President of TimeMarker, Inc., a company that helped other businesses leverage the internet to sell their time perishable inventory using a proprietary wireless exchange platform.

After the sale of TimeMarker to Prime Holdings, Inc., Mr.Hall joined the Peppers & Rogers Group, a firm specializing incustomer relationship management strategy. He worked with companiessuch as EDS, Mazda, and Blue Shield of California to develop customerrelationship management strategies for maximizing profitability andrevenue growth.

In addition to these business ventures, Mr. Hall worked for Ernst and Young in their Strategic Advisory Services group. In this capacity, he worked with Fortune 500 companies on a broad range of strategic issues including: new product development, supply chain optimization, and customer segmentation.

Hall received a Masters of Business Administration from Brigham Young University and a Bachelors in English from Weber State University.

John J. Sweeney
Vice President of Marketing

John Sweeney joined HealthEquity, Inc. in the spring of 2007 bringing nearly 20 years of experience in the technology business with a focus on product management, marketing, and business development with both start-ups and established Fortune 100 brands.

Mr. Sweeney was a core member of the team which brought AT&T WorldNet Service ( www.att.net ) to market in 1996 and was the lead product manager in bringing AT&T's first consumer catalog online in 1997.

In 2000, Mr. Sweeney led the Excite@Home business services marketing team and increased the user base of its flagship e-commerce andstore-building product by over 400 percent.

He joined Sento Corporation in 2004 and developed a new look and messaging around the Sento brand which launched in 2005.  By focusing Sento's message on the value-added technology solutions in the sales and marketing materials, Sento increased sales from $23 million in 2004 when he joined to $53 million at the end of 2006.

Mr. Sweeney has numerous corporate awards and accolades to his credit over the years, most notably, the Customer Interaction Solutions Product of the Year Award for Sento CXP in 2007 and an ASP Top Ten Self-Help Website Award in 2006.  Mr. Sweeney has been a speaker at a number of conferences in the United States and in Europe on the topics of e-commerce marketing and usability testing.

Mike Chapman
Chief Technology Officer

Mike Chapman joined HealthEquity as chief information officer in April 2005. At HealthEquity Mike is responsible for all software development, technology infrastructure and information services functions.

Mr. Chapman spent his early career developing software for the defense industry and later creating advanced developer tools and methodologies. He joined Novell in 1993 where he was appointed Sr. Product Manager, Java Technologies and was responsible for critical platform developer strategies and retraining over 2,000 internal software engineers in new software development technologies and tools.

In 1999 he left Novell to become the CTO at Evergreen Internet and successfully productized a framework for ecommerce development licensed to large entities such as GE Power Systems and Merck.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, he founded eBusiness Software Consulting which specialized in applying advanced technologies and methodologies to health care problems. In this capacity he revamped how members, dependents and brokers interact with their insurance carrier for Select Health in Utah. He has also participated in several startups and taught in the MIT program for the University of Phoenix.

Mr. Chapman holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from George Mason University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Utah.

Tessa White
Vice President of People

Tessa White serves as the Vice-President of People for HealthEquity. She brings over twenty years of human resources background in the software and healthcare field. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Human Capital for Ingenix, a part of United HealthGroup. In that role, she managed compensation, stock programs, talent management and hiring during a high-growth acquisition stage of the company.

Prior to her experience there, she worked as Vice President of Human Resources for PowerQuest, a high-tech storage management organization (now part of Symantec) where she received the prestigious President’s Circle Legacy Award for her work in leadership development. In that capacity, she helped open numerous international arms in Europe and Asia.

She has also worked at Corel Corporation and Covey Leadership Center where she has served both as an HR generalist, in addition to specialist roles such as recruiter, benefits manager and leadership trainer. In addition, she has been active for many years in the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), acting as President and in several other Board positions in her local chapter. She attended Utah State University on academic scholarship where she studied Journalism.