🔒 WPS Well being Options names new president and CEO

Monona-based advantages administrator and well being insurer WPS Well being Options introduced Wednesday that chief administration officer Wendy Perkins has been promoted to president and CEO, efficient April 1

Present president and CEO Mike Hamerlik introduced his impending retirement final 12 months after greater than 10 years of service.

Perkins joined WPS in 2016 and has held assorted positions of accelerating duty. Previous to WPS she held management positions at Anthem and at Blue Cross and Blue Defend of Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the College of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a bachelor’s diploma in accounting.

“The search and analysis course of over the previous few months was intensive. We had many extremely certified and spectacular candidates from throughout the nation,” stated Kristine Euclide, chair of the WPS board of administrators. “Wendy stood out as the appropriate alternative to guide WPS and transfer the corporate ahead presently.”

“I’m honored to be chosen as president and CEO and worth the belief the WPS Board and Transition Committee has positioned in me,” Perkins stated. “WPS is in a development part with wealthy alternatives on the horizon. WPS workers are pushed to succeed, so I’ve little question we are going to obtain nice issues collectively.”

Perkins would be the firm’s fifth President and CEO for the reason that firm integrated in 1977 and the primary feminine to guide the corporate, which has 2,600 workers and was based in 1946.

“Throughout my time at WPS, we’ve achieved many issues, from modernizing our techniques and forging new partnerships to altering how we work and discovering new methods to make well being care simpler for the individuals we serve,” Hamerlik stated. “I do know Wendy will proceed to guide and assist our workers as the corporate enters its subsequent development part. Our prospects, beneficiaries, enterprise companions, and communities are in trusted arms.”