Citybiz Interview with Jenny Morgan, President & CEO of Basys

Jenny Morgan has over 30 years of experience building successful, growth-oriented technology companies in the healthcare information technology market. In 2009, Jenny joined basys LLC as an owner/CEO in order to leverage her prior experience in leading the next phase of the company’s substantial and dedicated history serving the multiemployer market. In 2018, she led the company through a recapitalization with Windrose Health Investors to bolster its path of future growth.

Prior to joining basys, Jenny served as an Investment Principal at Sterling Partners, a top middle-market private equity firm with $4 billion of equity capital under management, where her responsibilities included identifying, evaluating and executing prospective investments, and working with portfolio companies to leverage opportunities for growth and operational efficiencies.

Before joining Sterling Partners in 2006, Jenny was CEO of ViPS, Inc. (now General Dynamics Information Technology), one of the largest information technology companies in the Baltimore area, where she spent more than 20 years and led the company through significant growth by focusing on customer satisfaction and product development. During her tenure at ViPS, Jenny tripled the revenue of the company and led its successful sale in 2004 to WebMD, where she later served as Executive Vice President, Payer Services.

Interview questions:

Career | Your career included stints as CEO of ViPs (sale to WebMd.com) and Sterling Partners. Can you provide an overview of your career and the decision to join Basys?

Basys Today | Please provide an introduction to Basys and a snapshot of Basys today?

Platform | Can you tell us about the Basys platform?

Clients | Basys’ clients include national pension and health and welfare funds, self administered offices and third party administrators. Who are your primary clients and how do they benefit from Basys? How important are unions?

Covid – What impact did Covid have on Basys’ operation? How did Basys pivot during the pandemic?

Recap | In 2018, WindRose Health Investors sponsored a recap of Basys. Please tell us about the recap of Basys.

Growth | What are the growth plans – internal or are there any target acquisitions?

Leadership |What are the central tenets of your management style?

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About Basys

Basys provides industry-leading benefits and claims administration solutions to more than 1,500 multiemployer benefit funds in the United States and Canada. Since 1977, basys has become the technology partner of choice for a growing number of Self-Administered Plans, Third-Party Administrators and National Plans. While our focus has always been the Taft-Hartley market, we also work with self-insured corporations and non-profit groups throughout North America.

Basys products and services are built to help our customers do what they do best – serve their members. Our fully scalable solutions meet the diverse needs of our customers whether their operations are small or large, simple or complex. Team basys offers expertise in employee benefits, software engineering, project management, IT networks and infrastructure, working in locations throughout North America to develop, implement and support first-rate technology solutions.

On many of the page headers throughout this website, you’ll see images of some of the tools used by the millions of working women and men whose benefits are administered on the basys system: plumbers, roofers, electricians, carpenters, hospitality workers, medical assistants and more. These images reflect our belief that a job well done requires the right tools – and we strongly believe basys solutions are the right tools for efficiently and effectively delivering benefits to workers and their families.

Recent press releases: https://www.basys.com/company/news-events/


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