2018. What a Year.

It’s that time of year again. Festivus parties have ended. Holiday cards have been sent. A new year has begun. And we’re taking a step back to look at everything 2018 brought for Maestronites.

We started the year off with a bang with our acquisition by AXA. Joining forces with a worldwide insurance leader added even more fuel to our mission to make employee health and benefits people-friendly again.

Shortly after the acquisition, we launched our health plan management approach to self-funded benefits. By incorporating a people-friendly reference-based pricing model, we were able to partner with 170 new employer clients, like Leith Automotive, Secure Health and Phoebe Putney who were looking to change the healthcare game by lowering costs and improving health outcomes for their employees.

Passionate about the value HR leaders offer to organizations, we equipped them with resources to help them not only land a seat in the C-Suite, but better position them to successfully collaborate with their C-Suite team. After all, HR is uniquely positioned to help drive down one of their organization’s largest expenses – healthcare.

In 2018, we continued to expand our partnership with Aflac® to offer their brokers and employers a robust benefits administration solution called voluntaryEDGE™. This partnership with Aflac has made it possible to simplify and streamline the complete benefits experience for employers looking to provide comprehensive voluntary benefits packages, including accident, hospital, critical illness, vision, dental, disability and cancer insurance, to employees.

We on-boarded 65 new Maestronites, including more customer advocates, a new Chief Financial Officer and data analysts, to help us meet our employers’ needs. (Spoiler Alert: We’re still hiring.) To house these new hires, we moved our Detroit Maestronites to a bigger and better office and we began breaking down walls to expand our corporate headquarters in Chicago.