Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Barbara Wachsman is the Director of Strategy and Engagement for Enterprise Benefits at The Walt Disney Company. Under her management, Barbara's team designed benefits programs that identified and addressed Disney’s long-term healthcare and retirement goals and objectives.

Prior to joining Disney, Barbara spent 30 years in senior management roles with two international benefit consulting firms, in addition to serving as a Principal at Arthur Andersen where she ran the West Regional Human Capital practice.

Barbara is a national speaker on topics such as hospital/physician/employer relations, effective managed care models and provider reimbursement models, wellness and incentives, and has published articles in Pension&Investments, Business Insurance and specialty health care journals about the value of managed care. Much of her work has involved helping employers and providers create more effective, direct partnerships. Barbara serves as the Chair of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), one of the largest and most established employer coalitions of ‘jumbo’ employers in the country, and remains an active member of the Employer Healthcare Innovation Roundtable (EHIR), a group of select employers that evaluate various venture capital portfolios. She is also a Board Member on the American Board of Medical Specialties.