Leadership

Chini Krishnan is Co-Founder and CEO of GetInsured, leading the charge to bring the SaaS approach to public sector healthcare. Even before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Chini understood the need for a SaaS-based health insurance exchange solution, and his foresight enabled GetInsured to secure a principal role in developing the seminal exchanges for California, New Mexico, Idaho, and Mississippi. Today, GetInsured operates exchanges in California, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Nevada, and New Jersey. Chini brings more than 30 years of experience in the high technology industry to public sector healthcare technology.

Prior to GetInsured, Chini founded and served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Valicert Inc., a leader in public-key infrastructure (PKI) validation. Valicert went public in 2000 and ultimately merged with Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) in 2003. Prior to founding Valicert, Chini was Product Marketing Manager at Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), where he was seminally involved in releasing the world’s first secure browser. Chini holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke University and a BS also in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Ted Tobiason is our Chief Financial Officer leading the finance, FP&A, accounting, investor relations and treasury functions at GetInsured. Ted was most recently CFO at Lime, a global micromobility company with operations in over 100 cities and 30 countries. Prior to that Ted was an investment banker for 23 years focusing on IPOs, private placements and debt offerings in the technology sector. He was a Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley and before that Deutsche Bank, Bank of America and Robertson Stephens. Ted has an MBA from Columbia University and an AB from Princeton University.

Heather Korbulic is VP, Policy and Communications with GetInsured where she works to engage local, state, and federal policymakers in developing strategies for technology driven improvements to the provision of health care and other public benefits. Prior to joining GetInsured, Heather served as the Executive Director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, Nevada’s state agency that runs and operates the online health insurance marketplace known as Nevada Health Link. She also served as the interim Director of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation during the height of the COVID pandemic and oversaw the implementation of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. Governor Sisolak also appointed Heather as his interim Senior Policy Director for the 2021 Legislative Session. Heather has fifteen years of experience in human service specifically related to health care policy. Heather specializes in government affairs, public relations, coordinated project management and strategic planning. Under Heather’s direction, the Nevada Exchange was the first state operating as a hybrid exchange to successfully transition functionality away from HealthCare.gov to a fully autonomous state-based exchange. Heather has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon and is a Certified Public Manager.  

Whitney leads the Finance, Accounting, Human Resources and Facilities teams at GetInsured. He has more than 25 years of financial executive leadership experience at both private and publicly-traded technology companies. Prior to joining GetInsured, Whitney served as the Corporate Controller and Vice President, Finance of Zynga (ZNGA), a global gaming company going from an early stage private company to a billion dollar publicly traded company. He also held financial leadership roles at computer security company Fortinet (FTNT), application service provider Corio (CRIO) and help desk software developer Remedy (RMDY). Whitney is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Sephy brings more than a decade of health care experience to his role as Chief of Staff. Prior to joining GetInsured, Sephy led business development for a creative services and strategic marketing firm that specialized in corporate branding and IPO road show presentations. He successfully sourced and managed 20+ IPO road show presentations including VA Linux Systems, which holds the U.S. record for the biggest first-day gain of an initial public stock offering at 698 percent.

With more than 20 years of experience in the high technology industry, Amit brings a wealth of experience in healthcare IT and state exchange implementations. Since 2013, he has been an integral part of many successful state-based marketplaces implementations and maintaining operations for the CMS Federal small business exchange, Arkansas small business exchange, and the Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New Jersey individual exchanges. Prior to 2013, Amit worked with Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner) as a vendor representative and helped them reform their digital strategy and implementation of Web 3.0 (personalization and predictive analysis). In addition, Amit has defined, built, and operated several B2C joint ventures, including TheFirstResort.com and Latedeals.co.uk (sold to Tui), WooHoo.com (sold to Match.com) and MadAboutWine.com (sold to Diageo). He has led large, distributed cross-functional teams, including managing teams up to 150+ members in various capacities.