Tim Hyde serves as Chief Executive Office for Echelon Insurance Group. Mr. Hyde has over twenty years in the healthcare space, primarily focused on consulting, administering, and promoting large group, self-funded health plans. Mr. Hyde began his health care career as Vice President of one of the largest Third-Party Administrators in the U.S., based in Little Rock, AR. During his tenure, Mr. Hyde sold and managed employers across the country. His client’s health plans consisted of an array of industries from publicly traded and private manufacturing, hospitals, medical practices, municipal county and city governments, universities, non-profit, and religious organizations. In 2017, he transitioned to President and Chief Relationship Officer of a Reference-Based Pricing company based out of Des Moines, Iowa. During his time, he led the effort to automate all systems to scale the organization for national growth, all while promoting the brand, leading to 660% growth in less than three years. With his experience in developing meaningful and decisive solutions within the existing healthcare system and building cutting-edge solutions to combat rising, unsustainable healthcare costs, he was tasked to develop and lead Echelon Insurance Group, a full-service Life and Health, and Property and Casualty agency based in Little Rock. EIG implements such strategies in the state of Arkansas and beyond for employers of all sizes and industry. Mr. Hyde is licensed in Life and Health and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 2000. He lives in Little Rock with his wife, Kathryn, his son Charley, and his daughter Molly.