HealthEquity Management Team

Stephen Neeleman
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Stephen Neeleman is the CEO and creator of HealthEquity, Inc. Dr. Neeleman co-founded HealthEquity to repair the fractured relationship between the patient and provider and to help more people obtain health insurance by re-introducing consumerism into health care.

As a board certified physician, Dr. Neeleman brings to HealthEquity a passion for and firsthand knowledge of the medical industry.

Prior to his medical training, Dr. Neeleman worked as the General Manager for the Morris Air hub in Salt Lake City.

Dr. Neeleman combined efficiency, technology and excellent customer service to succeed in a rocky industry. This innovative business model allowed Morris Air, later acquired by Southwest Airlines, to rise above financially struggling competitors. Dr. Neeleman's goal is to use this model to help another struggling industry: America's health care system.

Dr. Neeleman is a former assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona. Until the fall of 2006, Dr. Neeleman was a practicing surgeon at American Fork Hospital in Utah. Dr. Neeleman currently serves on the Council for Affordable Health Insurance HSA Working Group, and on the National Health Care Reform Coalition.

Dr. Neeleman completed his surgical training at the University of Arizona and received a medical doctor degree from the University

Tamara Hall
Chief Operating Officer

Tamara joins HealthEquity as the Chief Operating Officer, bringing over twenty years of cross-functional management experience, including clinical, operational, multi-site call center, strategic, and financial expertise.

Most recently, Ms. Hall served as senior vice president of Health Dialog and led the design, development and implementation of a company’s services, including operational infrastructure, service design and expansion, and system platform leveraging a common database architecture and user-specific login and interface.

Ms. Hall has strong expertise in employee growth and development, including expanding from 30 employees to 1000+ in 5 years implementing a concept of growth from within where 75% of call center directors and managers started with positions supporting customers on the phone. Her expertise won Health Dialog acclaims as the “Best Nursing Employer” in the state.

Ms. Hall has also led numerous start-ups through rapid growth and expansion phases, managed implementation of key strategic alliances, and headed up programs that represent the mission of healthcare delivery change. Her work has spanned a variety of organizations and mergers including, her own Wellness Consulting group focusing on large employers such as DuPont (Employee Wellness Program Health Horizons) in Louisiana, Humana (Acquisition and Women Health Transition Team), CareLink and Tokos (Perinatal Telephonic Support Services), and most recently Health Dialog (Informed Health Consumer Services).

Ms. Hall earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Louisiana State University and a master's in business administration from Boston University.

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 various financial management positions, including eight years as treasurer. While at Novell, Mr. Mott had responsibility for all treasury functions, 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.

Larry Hurwitz
Chief Information Officer

Larry Hurwitz joined HealthEquity as Chief Information and Technology Officer in the Spring of 2007. Mr. Hurwitz is a proven technology executive with more than 25 years of P&L responsibility in start-up, multi-million, and billion-dollar companies.

Prior to joining HealthEquity, Mr. Hurwitz served as Senior Director of Operations and Technology for RxAmerica/Long Drugs. In this capacity he managed the organization and operational procedures of the user and technical help desk for PMB RxAmerica.

Mr. Hurwitz was also co-founder and CEO of Inimage Software Inc where he led efforts to develop and publish the award-winning product TABs.

Additionally, Mr. Hurwitz brings vast business experience, having served as a consultant to NASA, ATK, Blue HealthCare Bank, MarketStar, Sorensen Communication, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Walt Disney Corp., and Martin Marietta.

In these capacities Mr. Hurwitz has demonstrated an ability to innovate, build competitive advantage, maintain IT alignment with business, stabilize existing operations, manage change, and increase margins. Respected by his peers, he lends himself as an inspiring leader and team builder who seizes opportunities, manages complex issues, and earns respect through persuasive, participatory leadership.

Mr. Hurwitz received a Bachelors of Business Management from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

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 of operational changes that contributed materially to profitable sales growth.

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’s 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 in customer relationship management strategy. He worked with companies such as EDS, Mazda, and Blue Shield of California to develop customer relationship management strategies for maximizing profitability and revenue 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 and store-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.