About Bill & Ovation

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William J. Carew

Bill Carew is President & Chief Executive Officer responsible for the strategic, operational and financial performance of the company. With more than 24 years of experience in the industry, Bill is a recognized authority on health and employee benefits strategy, financing, and insurance underwriting, and is a leading advocate for the incorporation of wellness and health improvement strategies in the workforce. He has held management, consulting and sales positions in various markets around the country with Metropolitan Life, CIGNA Healthcare, and the former Johnson and Higgins (now Marsh) companies. In 1992, he co-founded Carew, Driscoll & Associates, Inc. and in 2002 merged the firm with BENEFITSource to form Ovation Benefits Group.

He is the lead author of the Connecticut Public Sector Healthcare Cost & Benefit Survey, the chairman of the Metro-Hartford Alliance Healthcare Task Force Wellness Committee, a frequent presenter to industry trade groups, and an active contributor to business and industry panels influencing the direction of healthcare policy and legislative activity. He is also the primary author of a the Ovation Benefits blog covering “The Business of Healthcare & the World Around Us” which can be found at www.ovationbenefits.com/blog.

Bill has a BA in History from Boston College and an MA in Economics from Trinity College, is a past recipient of the 40 Under 40 award by the Hartford Business Journal, and currently serves as Chair of the Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters Board of Directors. Bill resides in Simsbury, CT with his wife Karen and their four children.