About Us

We are an innovative healthcare cost containment company driven by a passionate team that challenges the status quo. We strive to make healthcare more intelligent, streamlined, & cost-effective. Our offerings manage & reduce rising healthcare costs while improving the health & well-being of those we serve.
Meet The Team

Shelly Bailey
Vice President, Contract Strategy & Risk Management
Shelly Bailey's Bio
Shelly serves as Vice President, Contract Strategy & Risk Management, and has been with The OccuNet Company since 2013. She has 20 years of experience in the medical field and contributes to the company's strategy and approach to negotiation, product design, and the buildout of new products. Shelly assists in the development of our collegiate and specialty sports risk management programs and is critical to the growth of our unique relationships with medical providers.

Art Baldwin
Senior Vice President, Sales
Art Baldwin's Bio
Art, a 20-year veteran in the self-funded healthcare world, has a proven track record of increased growth, focusing on healthcare solutions in the large employer sector. Art joined The OccuNet Company from the TPA side of the business after most recently serving as Continental Benefits (Marpai) Executive VP of Sales and Marketing. He has also held the role of Regional VP of Sales at a nationally recognized TPA, where he was responsible for new business development in the Western region of the United States. He helped them grow significantly in that market while also developing national captive programs. He also worked as a consultant, establishing a successful agency focusing on captives and cost reduction solutions for employers across the country.

Lauren Beeman
Chief Operating Officer
Lauren Beeman's Bio
Lauren serves as COO of The OccuNet Company. She has 18 years of cost containment & payment integrity experience with a specialization in operations and client and vendor relations. Her experience spans many areas of healthcare, including group health, RBP, workers’ comp, auto liability, international and government healthcare. Before joining The OccuNet Company, Lauren was with a negotiation firm, HRGi, and before that, she was with Equian, running operations for the network services division.

Blair Broadhurst
Vice President, Marketing Communications & Sales
Blair Broadhurst's Bio
Blair leads all aspects of marketing and sales support for The OccuNet Company. He has focused the last eight years of his career on sales, marketing, and business development. He is responsible for growing brand awareness and increasing customer acquisition and engagement for The OccuNet Company, assisting with company growth initiatives, servicing the sales team, and cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets. Before joining The OccuNet Company, Blair held sales and marketing leadership roles at Learfield, the Nation's leading collegiate multimedia rights company.

John Crumpton
Chief Strategy Officer
John Crumpton's Bio
John serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of The OccuNet Company. He has 30 years of cost containment experience and has held several executive leadership roles throughout his distinguished career in the healthcare industry. John’s extensive sales and strategic management experience include accident & health, commercial group health, workers’ compensation, auto, and international healthcare. John has worked closely with all stakeholders within the healthcare distribution channel domestically and internationally. Before joining The OccuNet Company, John was the Chief Marketing Officer for HRGi.

Caleb Fairly
President
Caleb Fairly's Bio
As the President, Caleb leads The Occunet Company and its multiple business lines in driving innovation and delivering high-quality, results-driven solutions to the market. Caleb is a proven executive and passionate about transforming healthcare. Since taking over as President in 2018, The OccuNet Company has seen dramatic growth. He has led several strategic initiatives and guided the company’s transformation into an innovative leader in the healthcare cost containment industry. Before Joining The OccuNet Company, Caleb lived in Girona, Spain, and was a professional road racing cyclist for ten years.

Alex Fairly
Founder
Alex Fairly's Bio
Alex serves as the Founder of The OccuNet Company. He has over 25 years of experience and is a nationally known expert in various facets of risk and cost management. He began his career developing innovative solutions for the professional sports industry, ultimately being engaged by the NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and over 400 professional sports teams in over 75 countries. The team Alex leads developed solutions focused on reducing the cost of risk and eventually were engaged by a who’s who of US corporations, including ViacomCBS, Disney, Tyson Foods, Warner, and others. Alex has received multiple industry-related awards, including Risk and Insurance’s Power Broker and Risk Innovator Awards.

Chase Fairly
Executive Vice President, Sales
Chase Fairly's Bio
Chase serves as EVP of Sales at The OccuNet Company. He has been working in the healthcare cost containment industry since May of 2015. Chase began at The OccuNet Company as an intern negotiating medical bills and worked through his final year of college in that role. In September of 2016, he transitioned to lead Fairly Group’s employee benefits team. His focus was on middle-market self-funded employers that emphasized unbundled programs and included independent TPA’s and RBP models. In 2017, Chase led an EB team at Fairly Group and the business development team at The OccuNet Company. As the organizations evolved, Chase resigned from the Fairly Group, and now his sole focus is given to leading the business development team at The OccuNet Company.

Kyla Hanks
Chief Human Resources Officer
Kyla Hanks's Bio
As CHRO of The OccuNet Company, Kyla ensures that we remain an employer of choice, finding the balance between compliance and engagement for our incredible team members. She leads this initiative focused on the employee experience with a strong foundational background in the key areas of HR. Kyla has experience ranging from compensation, benefits administration, payroll tax, organizational development, and talent acquisition in both non-profit and for-profit companies.

Josh Joseph
Vice President, Development
Josh Joseph's Bio
Josh serves as Vice President of Development for The OccuNet Company. He has over 20 years of experience in healthcare cost containment with
comprehensive expertise in application design, development, compliance, and security. Josh has a proven aptitude for modernizing infrastructure and consistently delivering on-time solutions that improve efficiency and quality. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and Information Systems from Penn State University.

Carol Lockwood
Chief Production Officer
Carol Lockwood's Bio
As Chief Production Officer, Carol leads The OccuNet Company's overall contract strategy and emerging market opportunities. She has held various progressive leadership roles throughout her distinguished career in the healthcare industry. Carol has extensive experience within several healthcare market segments such as accident and health, commercial group health, workers compensation, pharmacy benefit management, and dental. Carol joined The OccuNet Company following 18 years at Zelis.

Tiffany Oliphant
Senior Vice President Operations, FairosRx
Tiffany Oliphant's Bio
Tiffany serves as the Senior Vice President of Operations for FairosRx, The OccuNet Companys PBM offering. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the member journey, vendor management, and digital engagement tools. She has 24 years of experience in pharmacy benefit management. Tiffany has leadership experience in PBM operations, mail-order member services teams, client services, and the production and fulfillment of member materials.

Steve Smith
President, FairosRx
Steve Smith's Bio
Steve serves as President of FairosRx, The OccuNet Companys PBM offering. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in the pharmacy benefit management and healthcare industries. Before joining The OccuNet Company, Smith served as Executive Vice President of Texas-based Maxor National Pharmacy. Steve’s leadership experience spans clinical services, customer care, client management, systems administration, mail order pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, medical claims administration, and third-party administration.

Bogdan Stanca
Chief Financial Officer
Bogdan Stanca's Bio
Bogdan serves as Chief Financial Officer and joined The OccuNet Company in 2019. He is an established executive with 17 years of financial and analytical experience in the healthcare cost containment industry. Bogdan is responsible for leading the company's Finance, Accounting, and Analytics operations. Before joining The OccuNet Company, he successfully built finance and analytics teams at Maxor National Pharmacy.

Mark Tidwell
Executive Vice President, People & Culture
Mark Tidwell's Bio
Mark serves as Executive Vice President of People and Culture, where his attention is on the health and well-being of our people and the impact our actions have upon each other and those we serve. Since Mark arrived in 2017, his work on mindset, how we think about and see ourselves and one another, has transformed The OccuNet Company into a more effective cost containment organization. Before joining the OccuNet Company, Mark served a career in the U.S. Air Force and executive leadership roles of a large non-profit in San Antonio, TX.

Phil Valk
Executive Vice President, Sales
Phil Valk's Bio
Phil serves as EVP of Sales at The OccuNet Company and is a highly-respected sales executive with two decades of leadership experience within the healthcare industry. Phil brings extensive experience delivering reference-based pricing health plans to self-funded employer groups nationwide. Before joining The OccuNet Company, he spent six years as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions (AMPS).

Rob Weeks
Executive Vice President, General Counsel
Rob Weeks's Bio
Rob serves as EVP, General Counsel for The OccuNet Company. Rob spent his early career as a legislative analyst in Sacramento, CA defending liability claims for local governmental entities and commercial insurers such as Allstate and State Farm. In 2007 Rob transitioned to Chief Legal Counsel for HealthComp. He developed subrogation & fraud departments, took over regulatory and HIPAA compliance, organized the appeals dept, resolved claims vs. stop-loss carriers, developed a dialysis cost-containment program, & provided guidance to clients on compliance and high-dollar claims issues.