Background

Matt joined LaPorte in spring of 2024, with 30 years’ experience in the benefits industry, he is an exciting and welcome addition to our benefits team.  Matt started his career when he took a part-time position at Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield while a student at Portland State University.

He went on to work 11 years in various capacities at Regence including customer service, medical management, fraud and abuse, and national accounts sales.  Matt moved to Health Net where he managed middle market and large group sales for 4 years. After becoming a broker/consultant in 2005, he made the leap in 2009 starting his own benefit agency then merged his business with another local agency in 2011.

For the last 13 years, he has served as Director of Employee Benefits at that local agency with responsibility for all aspects of sales and service.  Matt’s passion is providing self-funded solutions to employers giving them greater control over costs, design, and management of their employee benefits program.

Throughout the pandemic, employers struggled to provide employees with access to timely primary care, mental health, and physical therapy solutions.  After several attempts utilizing existing market solutions. Matt helped start Primary Digital Health, a digital health solution providing cost efficient and fast access to care for self-insured employer groups. PDH operates in all 50 states and provides cutting edge digital health solutions.

Matt is married and has three children, all of which have grown into amazing young adults. In his spare time, he and his wife, Kristen, enjoy fishing and the outdoors throughout the Pacific NW and the world.  In 2022, Matt was honored to become a board member of the Oregon Wildlife Foundation.  OWF is a charitable foundation dedicated to funding and promoting fish, wildlife, and public access projects in Oregon through private donations and public partnerships.