We recently sat down with Brandon Weber, the co-founder and CEO of Nava Benefits, to get his thoughts on the state of the industry, the benefits trends he's watching, and the evolving role of the benefits advisor.

How did you get into the industry?

My background isn't in health care or benefits; it's in building high-growth technology companies that operate in heavily brokered industries. So I've got a long history of building technology that modernizes brokered industries, going all the way back to the early days of Zillow.

Brandon Weber, co-founder & CEO, Nava Benefits

I grew up in a blue collar environment in northern Alaska and was very close to people who were negatively impacted by the health care system, often going through medical bankruptcies or having to raise money for a surgery. As a result, I grew up with this sense that the health care system was just a really unsafe place that you should avoid at all costs. And that always stuck with me.

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