Soda Health is now evermore

We’re making 
benefits smarter.

evermore is a technology company that administers Smart Benefits to connect people to products and services they need, when they need them, so they can live healthier lives. We partner with health plans, payers, and retailers to deliver expansive benefits for things like healthy foods, OTC 
medications, or transportation. evemore is aligning incentives so that everyone benefits with more value for each and better outcomes for all.

Our Values

Relentlessly focused on improving delivery, accuracy, and ease throughout the value chain

Benefits administration is complicated, uncoordinated across funding sources, and confusing for recipients. Creating an easier system to navigate that’s all on one card makes benefits work harder and more efficiently for all stakeholders.

Personalized relationships foster better health outcomes

Health care shouldn’t be transactional. Sustained engagement occurs when the consumer is presented with something relevant, timely, and personalized in a way that creates urgency for action.

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Better benefits and performance to inspire raving fans

We commit to delighting everyone we serve; that begins with an ever-expanding set of insights that create the next best action for consumers and quantitative ROI for sponsors.

Driven to continuously innovate

No matter the metric, we won’t relent until the resources people need are easily accessible no matter where they shop, what language they speak, or how they choose to engage.

Meet the team

A world class team of health care, retail, fintech, and consumer leaders

Our Investors

evermore is at a unique intersection of healthcare technology, fintech and retail. Our investors are the ideal partners for our journey.

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Everyone’s health is individual, so we’re building a platform that recognizes and respects the individuality of every person in the health care system. Each of us. All of us. If you want to advance health care and you love working at the intersection of healthcare, fintech, and retail engagement, why not join evermore and turn our mission into your reality?

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Robby Knight

Co-Founder and CEO

A social worker by training, Robby has made it his life’s mission to address health inequities in a broad and meaningful way. He believes to his core that there had to be a better way for people to get their first order needs met – in an economic model that isn’t prohibitive for health plans and employers to scale. He became obsessed with an idea to transform how social care is delivered and evermore was born. 

Robby was one of the architects behind Walmart Health, a founding member of Walmart’s health insurance brokerage, and was responsible for building Walmart’s flex card business into a $2B revenue stream within 3 years.

Robby has a Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Science in management information systems and MBA from the University of Alabama and a Master of Social Work from Columbia University. 

Daryl Risinger

Daryl Risinger

Co-Founder and President

A serial successful brand builder, Daryl has long recognized the health care industry as ideal for engineering disruptive strategies in the development of successful products, services and organizations. 

At Walmart, Daryl was the Chief Growth Officer for Health & Wellness and one of the architects of Walmart Health. Under his leadership, Walmart built the supplemental benefits business, going from $0 to $2B in revenues in 3 years. 

Prior to Walmart, his nearly 30 years of health care expertise has included Fortune 100 and start-up organizations within the pharmaceutical, medical device, hospital and outpatient services industries. What has been most consistent throughout his career is an innate ability to understand market needs, identify existing gaps and build the teams required to deliver market-leading solutions.  

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Chris Brown

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Chris is an experienced technology executive with extensive experience as a CTO in both healthcare and fintech industries.

His technical accomplishments include technology stack modernization, architecting solutions to position organizations for future growth while leading teams focused on high-priority, high-impact projects. He built and led teams at Rally Health, Aurora Investment Management and Backstop Solutions Group.

He is a summa cum laude graduate of Bradley University and a National Merit Scholar.

Jared Dauman

Jared Dauman

Co-Founder and Chief Payments Officer

Fascinated with solving complex business problems, Jared was drawn to an eCommerce revenue cycle management startup at the beginning of his career. 

Later, on Walmart’s eCommerce team, he managed merchandising P&Ls within health and wellness. He sought out new business ventures for the category and as the directed spend program grew, Jared played an integral role in platform requirements, product strategy and day-to-day operations. During that time, he garnered strong relationships with healthcare payers and developed innovative ways to service their needs through fintech solutions. 

Jared has a Bachelor of Science business administration and entrepreneurship from Washington University in St. Louis. He was recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Health Care. 

Carey Willson

Chief Operating Officer

Carey is a scaled operator who builds the operational backbone of highly regulated, high-growth companies. He’s energized by complex systems, regulatory nuance, and the work that sits at the intersection of data, product, and strategy.

Before evermore, Carey spent five years as VP of Operations at Chime, leading operations, risk, compliance, and AI-driven automation through the company’s IPO. His teams rebuilt core review workflows with AI and automation and stood up the controls and infrastructure required to run as a public company.

Earlier, he led Operational Excellence and Vendor Operations at Google, and global outsourcing and vendor strategy at Facebook and Snap. He started his career in banking operations at Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

Casey Bartolucci

Chief Commercial Officer

Casey has dedicated his career to transforming the health care industry. A proven, innovative leader driven by the desire to fix broken and sub-optimal business models, he was a founding member of a payor-focused management consultancy and built the growth function 0 to 1+ at a health tech start up focused on value-based care. He takes great pride in driving better outcomes for patients and better models for providers and their teams.

Casey brings years of value-based care experience from Stellar Health, where he served as the Chief Growth Officer and head of enterprise sales, contributing significantly to the company’s revenue growth. His experience in startups, extensive health plan network, depth of expertise in value-based care, and proven ability to develop transformative business models make him an ideal fit to drive growth at evermore.

Ariane Grazian

Chief Customer Solutions Officer

Ari never backs down from a challenge and brings deep experience in transforming large-scale, bold ideas into scalable, viable strategies and products. At evermore, Ari is architecting a disruptive health tech meets fin tech solution to deliver smarter, personalized benefits to members and health plans in a consumer-friendly, familiar way – with smart cards. evermore is transforming benefit delivery to be a strategic value driver rather than a cost of doing business.

Ari began her career with Deloitte as a strategy and operations consultant prior to joining Walmart in 2014. During her time with Walmart, she served as a productively disruptive leader who delivered many “world firsts” for the world’s largest retailer. In her most recent role as Director of Product Development & Health Plan Partnerships, Ari supported the financial viability of Walmart’s healthcare business by forging relationships with the country’s largest health plans and translating their challenges into new product offerings such as clinical gaps closure and engagement support, social determinants of health solutions, and innovative insurance products.

Ari has a Bachelor of Business Administration from The George Washington University.

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Brian Ru

Head of Corporate Development and Finance

Brian leads finance, corporate development, and analytics at evermore.

Prior to evermore, Brian co-founded Frontera Health and served as a Principal at General Catalyst, where he focused on healthcare software and infrastructure investments. He began his career at Microsoft and has held various roles leading product, finance, strategy, and M&A.

Brian holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Economics from Harvard University.

Jared Childs

VP, Growth

Jared is a highly motivated leader with significant experience integrating retail and healthcare to drive meaningful outcomes.

Jared most recently worked at Shipt where he helped found and launch the healthcare division. His team built a directed spend payments product within the Shipt Marketplace, allowing health plan members to shop healthy foods and receive same-day delivery from over 120 retailers. Jared believes that true innovation requires great partners to learn and grow alongside. His experience building from concept to new vertical with exponential growth was one of the biggest thrills of his career.

Jared is a proud alum of NC State University’s Entrepreneurship program.

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Sarah Hagan

VP, New Markets

    Sarah Hagan is a healthcare nerd who has dedicated her career to creating impact through scaling operations.Sarah spent four years at Deloitte Consulting before joining evermore. In her time at Deloitte, she focused on developing and operationalizing strategy that would result in transformational change for her clients. She worked across the healthcare industry, with deep payer and provider experiences in strategy, analytics, and operations. At evermore, Sarah drives go to market strategy for new markets and provides invaluable strategic support on the Leadership Team.A Dean’s List graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC, Sarah received a full scholarship to the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, as a Health Innovation Scholar, recognizing professionals pursuing healthcare innovation.

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      Laura de Crescenzo

      Head of Product

      Laura de Crescenzo is Head of Product at evermore. She leads product strategy across payments, customer experience, and user interactions, with a focus on scaling enterprise-grade infrastructure and expanding into new markets.

      Prior to evermore, she served as Director of Product at Origin, a growth-stage startup building a platform to simplify managing your money. At Origin, she oversaw the product’s expansion to direct-to-consumer and launched its first AI-powered features.

      Earlier in her career, Laura was VP and Head of Product for Financial Wellness at Goldman Sachs, where she expanded the platform’s reach to over 350,000 hourly workers and drove double-digit ARR growth. Before moving into product, she held roles in strategy and risk management at the Firm.

      Laura graduated summa cum laude from New York University with a BA in Political Science.

      Sarah Rumfelt

      Chief of Staff

        Sarah is a strategic operator with a reputation for excellence in roles as varied as retail, finance, and member experience. As the first “non-founder” at evermore, she was instrumental in building capabilities, process, and leverage for card operations, CRM and engagement platforms, fundraising, and sales.

        Her career began at Raymond James, where she supported the investment banking team during their expansion into Europe and the UK. During her time in business school, Sarah demonstrated her entrepreneurial spirit by founding a non-profit organization that connected the university with women in the surrounding community, achieving substantial growth in just six months. She has also held positions at Regions Bank and Walmart.

        She has a Bachelor of Science in business and journalism and MBA from the University of Alabama.