WEX celebrates 2025 community award winners at WEX SPARK 

Live on stage at WEX SPARK Health & Benefits, a premier event for health and benefits professionals, WEX revealed the 2025 Community Awards winners, shining a spotlight on the industry’s most dedicated innovators who have committed to making benefits simpler, more accessible, and more effective for everyone.

Established in 2008, the WEX Community Awards celebrate notable accomplishments across areas like growth, advocacy, leadership, innovation, and customer service, as well as overall company successes. 

This year, WEX recognized 17 companies with distinct honors across leadership and innovation, including welcoming seven new companies into its Circle of Excellence, an annual recognition program that honors top-tier partners and customers who demonstrate exceptional commitment and performance in collaboration with WEX.

The WEX 2025 Community Awards winners are:

• WEX Partner of the Year: 
  • Baker Tilly
• WEX Growth Excellence Partner of the Year:
  • Medsurety
• COBRA Partner of the Year: 
  • Lifetime Benefits Solutions
• Innovator of the Year: 
  • csOne
• Leader of the Year: 
  • Chad Wilkins, Executive Managing Director of Webster Bank and President of HSA Bank
• Visionary of The Year:
  • Cobra Professionals Inc.

WEX is also thrilled to welcome the following inductees into the 2025 WEX Circle of Excellence:

• Associated Bank
• Bank of America
• Benefit Express
• Consolidated Admin Services
• Empyrean
• HSA Bank
• iSolved
• Lifetime Benefit Solutions
• MetLife
• Paylocity
• PNC
• Sentinel
• The Harrison Group
• Transamerica 
• UMR
• UPMC
• Voya

“Our 2025 Community Award winners and Circle of Excellence inductees are the visionaries our industry needs,” said Robert Deshaies, Chief Operating Officer of Health & Benefits at WEX. “They’ve proven that even in a complex environment, you can simplify the experience and drive massive growth through a technology-forward mindset. These partners have a unique ability to cut through the noise and deliver real results for their clients. We are incredibly proud to celebrate their achievements and call them partners—they represent the best of our industry and the future of what we’re building together.”

The 19th annual WEX SPARK Health & Benefits conference, held April 27-29 in Orlando, FL, serves as one of the industry’s definitive forum for navigating the complexities of a shifting healthcare economy. This year’s agenda focuses on redefining benefits through trust, intelligence, and simplicity, to give WEX partners a true breakthrough advantage. Through immersive learning, meaningful connections, and direct access to WEX leaders and industry peers, SPARK is where tomorrow’s complexity becomes today’s opportunity. Catch the highlights and behind-the-scenes action across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X. Join the convo with #WEXSPARK.

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