Bruce Telkamp

Bruce Telkamp is a trailblazer in the transformation of how consumers and small businesses shop for and use health benefits. His contributions include essential work with insurance companies and regulators that enabled the first completely online sale of a health insurance plan in 2000, expanding from the exclusive domain of “wet” signatures on paper insurance forms to the scalable world of digital ecommerce, and launching the first nationwide private Medicare exchange. Prior to founding AssociationHealthPlans.com, Mr. Telkamp served for six years as CEO and Founder of HealthPocket, Inc. and AgileHealthInsurance.com (NASDAQ: BFYT).  From 2000 to 2012, Mr. Telkamp served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Operations at eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), where he oversaw all marketing, sales, operations, carrier relations, and regulatory functions. At eHealth, Mr. Telkamp also designed and launched the company’s private Medicare exchange in 2010, which is the core of eHealth’s business model today. Before his work at eHealth, Mr. Telkamp was an intellectual property and Internet privacy attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Telkamp has a law degree with Honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a B.A. with Honors in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Mr. Telkamp is a member of the California Bar, a licensed health insurance broker and a recognized authority on innovation and cost trends in the U.S. healthcare and health insurance market.