Management Team

Joseph Husslein
President and CEO, TakeCare Insurance
Founder and Visionary, Veiovis

Joseph Husslein has stewarded several major transformations at TakeCare Insurance since joining the company in 1993. Mr. Husslein played a key role in the company's early transition from FHP, a limited “staff model” HMO, to PacificCare Asia Pacific, an expansive “network model” offering thousands of member-patients access to local and U.S. overseas providers.

Mr. Husslein spearheaded major initiatives in the early 90's to re-position and rebrand the company, strengthen its sales team and performance, diversify its product offerings, expand its market, and conduct an enterprise-wide overhaul of administrative and medical management systems for the new millennium. In the early part of this decade, he took charge of PacifiCare’s health care delivery services, providing leadership to the company’s medical, dental and vision centers.

After being named President for PacifiCare’s Asia Pacific region in 2001, Mr. Husslein began to explore overseas health care options beyond U.S.-based providers, developing deep medical resources and strong provider relationships for the company throughout Asia. When TakeCare purchased PacifiCare in 2005, Mr. Husslein became its President and CEO, and today he is responsible for the delivery of health care to TakeCare’s nearly 25,000 medical and dental plan members. His long-view perspective of trends and important shifts in American health care has more recently turned his attention to industry globalization.

In 2009, Mr. Husslein proudly announced the premiere of Veiovis, the medical travel company that is built on TakeCare Insurance’s successful model for overseas medical care and coordination. Mr. Husslein received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Trinity University in Texas.

Jeffrey's background includes over 20 plus years of senior executive and general business management experience.

Jeffrey served as the Senior Regional Director and Director of Account Management Operations for one of the nation's largest health insurance companies, United Healthcare. During his time at United HealthCare, Jeffrey managed client services for 12 regional health plans, directed account operations for 140 national accounts with 1.6 million members and more than $280 million in annual premiums.

He was most recently the General Manager for Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) a Xerox Company in Raleigh, North Carolina. In this role he had overall management and P&L responsibility for one ACS's largest outsourced technical support and customer care operation with responsibility for supporting some of the world's most popular consumer goods products. He has vast experience in the customer care operations field for both in house and outsourced global clients.

Jeffrey received his Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science Composite from Southern Utah University.

Timothy brings over 25 years of executive level administrative, clinical, healthcare industry experience specifically in strategic planning, operations performance improvement and business development. His previous experience includes senior management positions with U.S. mainland medical organizations including the University of California, Irvine Health System Medical School and Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and Hospitals, the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and, Children's Hospital of Orange County.

He holds a Masters of Science degree in Healthcare Administration and a Masters of Arts degree in Biology from California State University, Long Beach and Fullerton, respectively. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kirt Peterson brings over ten years of health care management experience including managing and leading change, formulating and implementing strategic and financial plans, driving patient satisfaction initiatives and executing effective operational and marketing plans in multi-specialty clinic settings.

He recently served as the Practice Administrator for Tri-City Orthopedics in Kennick, Washington where he led a team of 13 highly specialized providers and a support staff of over 50 people. At Tri-City Orthopedics, one of his major accomplishments was decreasing operational costs. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director at Community Health Partners Physicians, Inc., a multispecialty group, where he increased gross charges net collections and contributed to a significant increase in revenue for the company.

Kirt has a Master's Degree in Health Administration from Saint Louis University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in economics from the University of Kentucky. He also served in the United States Air Force as a Captain and received numerous awards in this capacity.