Our Team

Ashleigh combines her experience, an understanding of organizational culture, and a practical mindset to meet her clients’ needs. With over 30 years of management consulting experience, Ashleigh has deep expertise in advising in the dramatically changing healthcare market.

Ashleigh specializes in helping her clients drive change within their health plans, resulting in increased employee engagement, improved human resources experience and reduced cost for both the employer and the employee. She believes in challenging the status quo by creating direct relationships between Employers and Providers.

Ashleigh has been a key contributor to several Community Owned Health Plans in states from Washington to Virginia and has been credited with being key to employee participation and support of the plans.

In working for Andersen Consulting/Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, and The Gunter Group, Ashleigh has provided advice and consulting support to Fortune 100 C-Suite executives over her career. She has an M.B.A. with a focus in Strategic Management and Organizational Change from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Denver with a concentration in Finance.

Scott has over 35 years of employee benefits experience. His background includes the development and validation of care management programs; prescription benefit management (PBM) solutions; provider network evaluation, valuation, and negotiation; and underwriting.

Scott started and operationalized a third-party-administrator (TPA) and a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) platform from scratch. He has worked in the arena of alternative funding for most of his career. In his current position at USI, Scott is focused on support of PBM and managed care/provider excess and employer reinsurance national practices as well as alternative reimbursement consulting to self-insured Plan Sponsors.

Scott has held officer-level positions within Blues plans and TPAs as Vice President of Sales and Marketing; Vice President of Underwriting; and President. Scott has also served as a trustee for both union and non-union health and welfare and pension plans.

Scott frequently shares his consulting expertise speaking at national events hosted by organizations such as the International Foundation of Employee Benefits; Health and Welfare Plan Management Conference; Western Pension and Benefits Council; and the Self-Insurance Institute of America. Scott earned his B.S. in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Scott also holds Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Registered Health Underwriter (RHU) designations.

Erik has over 30 years of experience in the insurance and risk management industry. In his current role at USI, Erik works to create an environment that supports the strategic managed care risk goals of an organization, while maintaining focus on compliance and financial accountability. Erik is instrumental in vendor negotiations, data benchmarking, population health strategies, claims analysis, recommendations in plan design and communication strategies.

In this capacity, Erik has been involved with development of rates, payment structures and recommendations of changes in processes, policies and procedures. He has a broad understanding of contract analysis, evaluating risk, auditing for correct payment and structuring of excess loss and pharmacy programs. 

Erik’s experience extends from overall employee benefits consulting to workers’ compensation, commercial risk, and Medicaid and Medicare Managed Care Organizations.

Erik earned his B.S. in economics from Oregon State University. He holds Accredited Advisor in Insurance (AAI), Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), and Certified Risk Manager (CRM) designations.