Isreal & McLellan Join Benefitfocus

Nashville, Tennessee– The Buffkin Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Cheryl Israel, Midwest Enterprise Account Executive, and Jessica McLellan, West Coast Enterprise Account Executive at Benefitfoucs.

Israel comes from Bidshift Inc. where she was Regional Director of Client Relations in the Midwest.  At Bidshift, Cheryl was responsible for selling nurse scheduling software to the C-Suite of hospitals and healthcare Integrated Delivery Networks.   Cheryl has over 20 years of national sales experience, focused in health care covering the Midwest.

McLellan comes from Avolent, Inc where she was a National Account Director.  At Avolent, Jessica was responsible for managing all existing customer relationships, selling additional software modules, software and services upgrades and professional services to the existing customer base.  Jessica has spent her career in various industries with a common theme of successful results through detailed execution and the ability to develop relationships.

About Benefitfocus

Benefitfocus works with large multi-national employers as well as leading U.S. health insurance companies, to streamline benefits enrollment, eligibility, billing and data exchange. The Company is engaged by over 89,000 corporate clients throughout the United States and the Caribbean.

About Buffkin & Associates, LLC

Buffkin & Associates, LLC is a national executive search and consulting firm. Services include executive search, management assessment, executive coaching and executive outplacement. Successful search and consulting assignments have been completed in privately-held and publicly-traded companies at the board, executive and senior levels.