Tracy Hassett, SPHR, is the President and CEO of edHEALTH, the member-owned healthcare purchasing collaborative for 23 colleges, universities, and charter schools. She also is the President and CEO of Educators Health Exchange, edHEALTH’s health insurance captive. She has held these positions since 2015.

 

Prior to edHEALTH, Ms. Hassett worked for 17 years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in a variety of HR roles. She rose through the ranks to Vice President of Human Resources, and was the first person to hold this position. While Ms. Hassett was working at WPI, she joined Boston Consortium higher education finance executives who were looking for a solution to the healthcare cost conundrum. WPI was a founding member of edHEALTH, and Ms. Hassett served on the Board of Directors beginning in 2011.

 

Ms. Hassett serves on the Board of Directors of The Vermont Captive Insurance Association, the trade association that promotes the captive insurance industry in Vermont. She is an alumna of Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with her husband and two labs.