Tom Spann

Tom Spann

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Brightside

Tom Spann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brightside, a company offering the first financial care platform for employers, focused on the vast majority of working Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck.
 Previously, Tom was the Founding CEO of Accolade.  While there, Accolade grew to a 750-person, $500 million market cap organization that defined the employee health navigation market for working Americans. Accolade was ranked as the fastest growing company in healthcare in Inc. 500 from 2009-2011 and top 20 fastest growing in healthcare from 2012-2014.  
 

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