Our mission

As a Business Operations Analyst at Decent, Sameena enjoys adding value with her analytical skills. Sameena has worked in the healthcare industry for the past seven years, and appreciates how growth and innovation come from great collaboration. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family outdoors and advocating for women to help them achieve their career potential.

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Decent's engineering lead, Randy, jumped at the opportunity to be a part of Decent mission and work with the founders again. While new to healthcare, he is a veteran engineering leader with over two decades of software development experience and 12 years of building and running engineering teams. He has a passion for helping people through the delivery of scalable software and services, and can't see himself working for a company that doesn't do social good. Out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, you may find him Jeeping backcountry trails or woodcarving at home.

Jenn is a product manager at Decent with a history in employer benefits, HR, and healthcare. As a result, she often finds herself acting as a benefits expert for friends and family, especially when they have questions about their health insurance. Jenn has seen friends and family struggle with being uninsured and underinsured and knows the U.S. can do better. That's why she joined Decent. When she's not at work, Jenn is probably trying to contain the chaos in her household, listening to a podcast or playing some sort of game.

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Terry has been in the PEO industry for almost 22 years serving a wide variety of clients and brokers throughout the country. In his free time he enjoys boating, golfing and traveling. He's excited to join the Decent team as they look to serve more small businesses across the U.S.

Bryce is joining Decent as a Salesforce Developer. He comes from a background in tech consulting and is excited to use those skills at Decent to help build our product for small businesses.

John is a young professional with four years of post graduate experience in Business Management, ERP Implementation, Billing, Accounting, Financial Analysis, and Accounts Payable. He is passionate about process improvement, client and employee relations, problem solving, management and leadership. In his free time he likest to go hiking in the Appalachian Mountains where he lives, run marathons, play piano, read books, and train Martial Arts.

Linda joins Decent as a PEO Account Manager, bringing years of experience in Resources Management, Account Management, SAAS, Payroll Services, and more. Linda says Decent is a game-changer, and that she’s thrilled to join a company that is selfless, transparent, and has a genuine approach to changing the healthcare system. Says Linda, “Everybody deserves the best available healthcare accessible to humankind.” When not working, Linda enjoys traveling, supporting St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, stretching, meditation, live music, and riding her bicycle.

Haley, a Product Manager for Decent, is passionate about the individual, social, and economic impact of helping people get access to affordable health care. She is committed to creating a health care experience that is not only effective but affordable, human-centered, and loved.

Haley has over 10 years of practice in making educational experiences accessible and digestible in order to support life-long learners all over the globe. By applying her knowledge and passion for the user experience, she is dedicated to our mission of providing affordable health insurance for all. Haley lives in Austin, TX and enjoys traveling, dancing, and spending time with her family along with their two dogs and a tree frog

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As a Broker Channel Consultant, Justin Hancock, is passionate about helping small businesses save money on health insurance costs. He’s a firm believer that everyone deserves affordable health insurance and previously worked with a health insurance startup, Sana, here in the Austin and Texas markets. When he’s not speaking with brokers about Decent's value proposition, he spends his time playing ice hockey

and chasing his kids around.

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I love solving large complex problems, and creating new streamlined processes that make everyone's job easier and faster! I have worked with start-up companies for nearly ten years both as an employee and as a vendor. They each face their own unique problems, but all of them have the same primary healthcare problem. Historically, it's not affordable. I'm excited to be working for Decent because they acknowledged that puzzle and found a solution!

Diana has a long history of leading successful human resources teams and being an employee advocate. She builds the internal structure that allows organizations and employees to improve, thrive, and provide excellent service to our customers. By using a growth mindset, emotional intelligence, and business acumen, she believes Decent can offer an exciting employee experience enabling our team to help improve healthcare options for all! When Diana is not working, she usually is either walking her dog, riding her bike, or enjoying time with family and friends.

Decent’s Communications Lead, Ellen Decareau, has spent nearly her entire career raising up health and medical brands with powerful storytelling and strategic communications. Ellen is generally passionate about human beings, healthcare access, and making the world a better place. She comes from a long line of small business owners and is excited to support that community in her role at Decent. Ellen lives in Austin, Texas and believes every day is a taco day.

Lauren, Decent’s Health Plan Programs Lead, has over 19 years of health plan experience from a variety of different perspectives including those of providers, hospitals, legislators, employers, and health plans. Throughout all of that time, she’s believed that healthcare can and should work better by being more transparent, more affordable, and more compassionate. In her prior roles, she has implemented programs that increased access to virtual primary and mental health care at no additional cost to patients, and incentivized patients to shop for more cost-effective care. Decent’s mission to provide affordable health care to all really resonated with her- and she’s excited to bring her wealth of experience to Decent to continue transforming the landscape of healthcare. When she’s not busy debating healthcare with her friends and family, Lauren loves traveling the world, creating elaborate costumes, dancing like nobody's watching, and singing like everybody’s listening.

Elizabeth joins Decent with a passion for building solid relationships through excellent customer care. Coming with a solid base of experience in customer service and account management, she was excited to hear of Decent’s take on affordable health care for all. “It’s all about helping the employer make smart decisions for their workers, and for the employee having the best possible AND affordable options for their families. This is something I can definitely get on board with!” When not working with Decent, you’ll likely find Elizabeth engaged with her charismatic church community, or enjoying the beauty of nature in all of it’s forms and representations.

Lisa is a Client Relationship Specialist who is enthusiastic about Decent’s objective of making health insurance accessible. She looks forward to connecting with people, and ensuring that partnering with Decent always makes for smooth sailing. Her background is in supporting non-profits and small businesses with payroll, HR, and accounting. In her free time, she enjoys playing strategy board games, appreciating music, and singing.

Ben is a family physician and entrepreneur interested in the re-emergence of primary care and societal wellness through clinic and system-level innovation and design. He founded Lantern Health, a direct primary care (DPC) practice based in Asheville where he still practices, and is driven to transform healthcare to work better for everyone. Outside of work, he can be found seeking adventure and balance in the western NC landscape alongside his wife and two kids.

As a sales development representative at Decent, her goal is to provide a fun and personalized experience for businesses looking to join Decent. After working for an employer who did not offer health insurance, Ashton knows first-hand about the unmeasurable security and peace of mind that affordable health care can provide to employees. Those experiences allow her to embrace Decent's mission of providing Affordable Health insurance to the world! Ashton lives in Austin, TX. Outside of work, Ashton can be found in-front of a stage soaking in the live music scene and is always up for a new adventure.

As a full-stack developer with over a decade of experience, Blake applies his familiarity with a diverse range of technologies to providing value to Decent’s customers, both internal and external. After years avoiding any kind of long-term commitment, Blake was excited to get the opportunity to join a company with Decent’s unique combination of worthy mission and dedicated team.

Decent’s Finance Lead, Bill, loves playing an active role building organizations working to solve big, complex problems. He has spent most of his career working finance for startups, most recently as a foundational member of the New Glenn finance team at Blue Origin. He joined Decent because he believes strongly in the mission of achieving improved healthcare outcomes while simultaneously reducing the cost of delivery through better incentives.

Ana is a quality assurance engineer at Decent. Throughout her career, she always worked towards ensuring the highest level of product and service for the people. At Decent, she is able to make a difference in the area that truly matters and really affects people’s lives. Because of that, her motivation is endless and she hopes that you find Decent as wonderful as she does.

I recently joined Decent as a Claims Support Analyst. I am very excited to bring my experience and knowledge of adjudicating claims and supporting day to day claims processing. In my new role at Decent, I will be working with experienced leaders to optimize the claims process and support documentation development. When I’m not working I enjoy traveling, working out, enjoying walks with King my pet Shih-Tzu, and catching up with family and friends.

Hi, I’m Kaiza and I just joined Decent.Decent’s Lifecycle Marketing Lead, Kaiza, joined the team from Gusto where she focused on engaging, converting, and retaining leads by crafting thoughtful customer-centric experiences. Kaiza joined Decent to help disrupt the broken health care system in the U.S. by making health care accessible and affordable for all. On the weekends you can find Kaiza admiring her native city of San Francisco while hanging with friends and family.

Decent’s Marketing Lead, Marshall Darr, joined the team from Gusto where he built out and ran their Lifecycle Marketing team - and met Nick Soman. He’s joining Decent after a recent accident gave him some eye-opening, firsthand experience navigating the broken world that is the current American healthcare system. Marshall lives in San Francisco and in his free time, you can either find him catching up with friends or at a stand-up comedy open mic.

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