Castlight Health, Inc. a leader in healthcare navigation, announced the addition of Erik Sossa, former vice president of Global Benefits and Wellness at PepsiCo, as a strategic advisor. Sossa brings decades of HR benefits and industry experience to Castlight’s market-leading health navigation solution that helps power America’s largest employers.
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In his 24 years at PepsiCo and its affiliate The Pepsi Bottling Group, Sossa served in multiple leadership roles spanning benefits, executive compensation, global mobility, and HR operations. For the past 12 years, he led the strategy, design, and financial optimization of health and insurance, retirement, and wellness programs for PepsiCo, and was responsible for the company’s 267,000 employees around the world.
“We’re excited to collaborate with Erik, a highly respected and innovative HR benefits leader, who has dedicated his career to the continuous pursuit of expanding access to quality, effective, and affordable healthcare for employees,” said Maeve O’Meara, chief executive officer of Castlight Health. “Erik is a strategic partner who values the powerful impact an agile and responsive health navigation platform can have in enabling employers to meet people where they are.”
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Sossa will advise Castlight on product and market strategy as well as help shape new solutions for the direct employer market as the industry moves towards a digital plus high-touch care navigation model to meet an increasingly distributed, diverse, and remote workforce.
“I’ve always been inspired by the great product Castlight has today, but I’m excited to collaborate on the vision they have for the future,” says Sossa. “Castlight is actively thinking about tomorrow — not just today — and I want to help solve tomorrow’s problems. I want to go on that journey, and I believe Castlight is on the right journey.”
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