Senior Educators: About Us

About Us

Overview

Senior Educators, one of the nation's trusted advisors in navigating Medicare, provides expert, unbiased assistance to Medicare recipients who expect and deserve high quality health insurance at an affordable price. Senior Educators presents complex health insurance information in an unbiased, objective manner via its internet site and trained and licensed insurance professionals.

Licensed to market insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Senior Educators has formed partnerships with more than 30 Medicare insurance companies, offering tens of thousands of plan options.

Senior Educators is owned by Hewitt Associates and headquartered in California. Senior Educators is not part of, nor affiliated with, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Hewitt Acquires Senior Educators

About Hewitt Associates

Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW) provides leading organizations around the world with expert human resources consulting and outsourcing solutions to help them anticipate and solve their most complex benefits, talent, and related financial challenges.

Hewitt works with companies to design, implement, communicate, and administer a wide range of human resources, retirement, investment management, health care, compensation, and talent management strategies. With a history of exceptional client service since 1940, Hewitt has offices in more than 30 countries and employs approximately 23,000 associates who are helping make the world a better place to work.

For more information, please visit www.hewitt.com.

Our Team

Senior Educators Insurance Services is managed by a team of professionals dedicated to your health and happiness.

President - Brian Poger
Senior Educators Insurance Services is led by Brian Poger. Brian became an expert on the Medicare legislation at McKinsey, where he led a variety of strategic and operational healthcare and technology studies. Prior to McKinsey, Brian held several roles within Eli Lilly & Company, including being an award-winning pharmaceutical sales representative and leading the largest implementation of remote data entry clinical trial systems in the industry. Brian graduated magna cum laude from Washington University with a BS in engineering and received his MBA with distinction from Kellogg School while serving as elected student president and member of the dean's search committee.

Vice President of Finance and Operations - Tim Keohane
Tim heads our Finance and Operations activities. Prior to helping found the company, he was a pivotal member of the management team at Power Bar, owned by Nestle Corporation. Before joining Nestle, Tim held both operational and financial management positions with STAR Television in Hong Kong (a subsidiary of News Corporation) where he received the inaugural Gold Star Award for Service.
Tim began his professional career as an associate with Summit Partners, a large Boston-based venture capital firm, where he covered the healthcare and software industries. Tim received his BA cum laude in Economics and Asian Studies from Dartmouth and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was his section's elected Education Representative and liaison between the students and faculty. He is married and a proud father twice over.

Vice President of Technology - Kian Wright
With over 15 years of IT experience, mainly in healthcare, Kian develops and oversees the technological backbone of the company. Kian was previously a consultant with Arthur D. Little, consulting to variety of international pharmaceutical and healthcare clients. He was also the Director of Software Development for a company in the managed care industry. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. He recently became a father.