LEADERSHIP. INVESTMENT. PERSPECTIVE.
Craig Hasday is an employee benefits executive and investor with more than three decades of experience in insurance brokerage.
Meet Craig ↓
Vice Chairman, Employee Benefits
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants
01 / EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Connecting employee benefits strategy with the realities of running a business.
Craig serves as Vice Chairman of Employee Benefits at EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, following his leadership of its national employee benefits practice.
His work has spanned practice integration, capability development, carrier relationships and collaboration across the business. Previously, he helped drive innovation at Frenkel Benefits, acquired by EPIC in 2017.
His background includes audit and tax work, financial leadership and small business ownership. He has also contributed healthcare commentary to CBS, NPR and other media.
Executive profile on LinkedIn ↗Profile sources EPIC biography and August 19, 2026 announcement.
02 / INVESTMENTS & RELATIONSHIPS
Craig invests in companies addressing practical challenges across healthcare, employee benefits, insurance, technology, and financial services. His portfolio reflects decades of experience building businesses and helping leadership teams navigate growth.
Affordable health benefits
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Hooray Health offers limited accident and sickness benefit plans focused on affordable access to everyday care. Its network and member tools help people find participating providers and understand their benefits. These plans provide limited coverage and do not replace major medical insurance.
Visit Hooray HealthBenefits communication technology
Craig’s relationshipInvestor and strategic advisor
TruHu helps benefits brokers and employers explain employee benefits through digital guides, microsites, and ongoing communications. Its AI tools support personalized content and multilingual delivery, making benefits information easier to understand while reducing manual communication work.
Visit TruHuHealthcare and benefits analytics
Craig’s relationshipInvestor and strategic advisor
Innovu brings benefits and healthcare data together to help employers and advisors make better decisions. Its analytics platform helps identify spending patterns, evaluate programs, and uncover savings opportunities. The company combines technology with analytical support for benefits strategy and risk management.
Visit InnovuObesity and metabolic care
Craig’s relationshipInvestor and strategic advisor
Ilant Health provides personalized obesity and metabolic care for individuals, employers, and health plans. Its approach combines clinical assessment, medical treatment, nutrition, behavioral support, and care navigation. The company helps match people with appropriate treatment while supporting employers’ efforts to manage healthcare spending.
Visit Ilant HealthGrowth equity in healthcare and benefits
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Archetype Growth invests in businesses serving the health insurance and employee benefits markets. Its focus connects growth capital with companies operating in these specialized industries.
Visit Archetype GrowthEmployer health plans
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Centivo administers health plans for employers that fund their own employee healthcare coverage. Its model centers on primary care and coordinated provider relationships. Working with benefits brokers and consultants, Centivo helps employers offer accessible coverage at more manageable costs.
Visit CentivoYouth sports management software
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Sprocket Sports provides software that helps youth sports organizations manage operations and connect with families. Its tools cover registration, payments, scheduling, websites, team management, and communications, bringing administrative work together so clubs can focus on their programs and participants.
Visit Sprocket SportsIndividual health coverage benefits
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
zizzl health helps employers offer benefits through individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, or ICHRAs. Employers establish a contribution budget, and employees choose individual coverage. The company supports program design, employee communications, enrollment coordination, and ongoing administration.
Visit zizzl healthMedicare guidance and enrollment
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Medicare Choice Group helps people understand Medicare and evaluate coverage options based on their healthcare needs. Its advisors provide education, enrollment assistance, and ongoing support. The company also works with employers and brokers to support people transitioning into Medicare coverage.
Visit Medicare Choice GroupRegulatory intelligence
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
RegAlytics helps organizations track regulatory developments through a searchable monitoring platform. It organizes alerts so teams can identify relevant changes and manage their review across jurisdictions.
Visit RegAlyticsHealthcare actuarial and risk analytics
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
Havarti Risk provides actuarial analysis and business insights for healthcare organizations, innovators, and financial sponsors. Its work helps evaluate economic value, assess healthcare risk, and support investment due diligence. The firm also advises providers navigating outcome-based care models.
Visit HavartiPrescription drug cost management
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
ELMCRx Solutions combines clinical expertise and technology to help health plans manage prescription drug spending. It serves plan sponsors, administrators, brokers, and consultants across specialty and traditional medications, with a focus on pharmacy benefit value and cost containment.
Visit ELMCRx SolutionsAI for benefits consulting
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
PlanYear provides an AI platform for benefits consultants, employers, and employees. Its tools help process benefits documents, manage workflows, and deliver employee information, reducing administrative work so consultants can focus on client relationships and benefits strategy.
Visit PlanYearHealth plan administration
Craig’s relationshipInvestor and strategic advisor
CGS Health designs and administers health plans for employers that fund their own coverage. Its services combine plan design, administration, member support, pharmacy access, and insurance protection options. The company helps employers tailor benefits and gain greater visibility into healthcare costs.
Visit CGS HealthEarly-stage healthcare support
Craig’s relationshipInvestor
RelyOn Strategies is an early-stage healthcare support company currently in development. Additional information will be added as the business and its offerings are further established.
In developmentCraig advises selected companies on strategy, partnerships, and market expansion. These advisory relationships reflect his operating experience across healthcare, employee benefits, insurance, and technology.
Benefits communication technology
Craig’s relationshipStrategic advisor and investor
TruHu helps benefits brokers and employers explain employee benefits through digital guides, microsites, and ongoing communications. Its AI tools support personalized content and multilingual delivery, making benefits information easier to understand while reducing manual communication work.
Visit TruHuHealthcare and benefits analytics
Craig’s relationshipStrategic advisor and investor
Innovu brings benefits and healthcare data together to help employers and advisors make better decisions. Its analytics platform helps identify spending patterns, evaluate programs, and uncover savings opportunities.
Visit InnovuObesity and metabolic care
Craig’s relationshipStrategic advisor and investor
Ilant Health provides personalized obesity and metabolic care for individuals, employers, and health plans. Its approach combines clinical assessment, medical treatment, nutrition, behavioral support, and care navigation.
Visit Ilant HealthHealth plan administration
Craig’s relationshipStrategic advisor and investor
CGS Health designs and administers health plans for employers that fund their own coverage. Its services combine plan design, administration, member support, pharmacy access, and insurance protection options.
Visit CGS HealthPrecision medicine and clinical trial navigation
Craig’s relationshipStrategic advisor
Medzown combines medical expertise, AI, and care navigation to help patients evaluate treatments and clinical trial opportunities. Its scientists and navigators review patient information and relevant research to identify options. The company supports patients, providers, and health plans navigating complex medical conditions.
Visit MedzownEstate planning and digital legacy
Craig’s relationshipAdvisor
GoodTrust provides online tools for creating wills, trusts, and estate planning directives. Its Digital Vault helps people organize important documents and digital assets, and share information with family members. The company also works with employers, insurers, and financial institutions to make estate planning more accessible.
Visit GoodTrustCraig’s prior investment experience includes companies across healthcare, employee benefits, insurance, technology, fitness, and financial services. These relationships represent prior investment exits and do not imply that the entire company was acquired or that Craig’s personal transaction terms are publicly available.
Healthcare navigation and employee support
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
Health Advocate helps employees and their families navigate healthcare and use their benefits more effectively. The company combines personalized expert guidance with technology to connect people with appropriate care and support.
Visit Health AdvocateLife insurance and wealth planning
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
Lion Street brings together independent firms and financial professionals serving individuals, families, and businesses with complex planning needs. Its network focuses on life insurance and wealth planning solutions.
Visit Lion StreetBenefits administration technology
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
bswift provides technology and services that help employers administer employee benefits. Its platform supports benefits selection, enrollment, and ongoing access to information, simplifying administration for human resources teams.
Visit bswiftPharmacy cost analytics
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
Tesser Health developed a digital platform to help employer health plans analyze and manage prescription drug costs. Its technology focused on improving pharmacy spending and benefits value. The business became part of ELMCRx Solutions following its acquisition by ELMC Risk Solutions.
Visit ELMCRx SolutionsFitness and workplace wellbeing
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
Peerfit connected employers and health plans with fitness experiences for their members. FitOn acquired Peerfit in 2022, and the company subsequently transitioned its name to FitOn Health.
Visit FitOn HealthMedical stop loss and insurance services
Craig’s relationshipFormer investor; successful exit
ELMC Risk Solutions built a group of businesses serving medical stop loss, reinsurance, and related healthcare risk markets. Its platform supported employers, brokers, and administrators managing the financial risks of health coverage. Craig was a former investor in the company, which resulted in a successful exit.
Historical investmentVirtual healthcare
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
First Stop Health provides virtual healthcare through employers and organizations. Its services include primary care, urgent care, mental healthcare, and wellness support, connecting employees and families with clinicians remotely.
Visit First Stop HealthProvider analytics and healthcare navigation
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
Garner Health uses healthcare data to help people find doctors based on provider performance. Its employer benefit combines provider recommendations with financial support for eligible medical costs, helping employers guide employees toward quality care within existing plans and networks.
Visit Garner HealthWealth management and financial advice
Craig’s relationshipPrior investment exit
MAI Capital Management provides wealth management and financial advice to individuals and families. Its services also include family office capabilities and specialized support for athletes and entertainers.
Visit MAI Capital ManagementCraig’s portfolio and advisory relationships span healthcare delivery, employee benefits, insurance, pharmacy, analytics, financial services, and business technology. His experience includes current investments, strategic advisory work, and successful prior exits.
03 / IDEAS & PERSPECTIVES
Healthcare, employee benefits and the decisions facing employers. Selected articles from Craig’s LinkedIn newsletter.
COVERAGE STRATEGY SEPTEMBER 13, 2026
Craig explores how changes in public and individual coverage affect employer health plans and benefits decisions.
ELIGIBILITY MANAGEMENT · SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
BENEFITS STRATEGY · SEPTEMBER 1, 2026
HEALTH PLAN FUNDING · AUGUST 10, 2026
PLAN OVERSIGHT · AUGUST 5, 2026
HEALTHCARE TRANSPARENCY · AUGUST 1, 2026
04 / CHARITABLE ENDEAVORS
Craig’s charitable involvement spans youth development, the arts and access to care for children.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Chairman of the Board
A Long Island nonprofit helping young people build confidence, develop life skills and find opportunities to thrive.
Visit The Butterfly Effect Project ↗ARTS & CULTURE
Advisory Board Member
A community arts center in Greenport bringing people together through film, performance and cultural programming.
Visit North Fork Arts Center ↗CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Charitable involvement
Provides grants to help families pay for children’s medical expenses not fully covered by commercial health insurance.
Visit the foundation ↗05 / INVESTMENT INQUIRIES
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