Daniel Apicella, Consultant

Daniel Apicella joined Boston Benefit Partners (BBP) as a consultant in August 2008. He comes to BBP having worked in a variety of roles in health care finance and employee benefits.

Mr. Apicella began his career in 2000 in the account management unit of Royal and Sun Alliance, a large insurance carrier headquartered in Liverpool England. He went on to work in the crisis unit of a major British Hospital and the market research and analysis division of Diversey-Lever (Unilever group) before taking an overseas role with the British Government.

In 2005, Mr. Apicella joined the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC) where he served as a program manager and senior policy analyst. At the GIC he conducted program evaluation, cost analysis and forecasting. Mr. Apicella also played a key role in supporting the implementation of the GIC's Clinical Performance Improvement Initiative.

Mr. Apicella has co-authored papers for publication on health care cost containment and served on both the Massachusetts Inter-Agency Research Task Force and the Health Care Quality and Cost Council's Sub Committee for Analytics.

Mr. Apicella has his bachelor's degree from the University of Hull in England and a master's degree in public policy from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the American Interdisciplinary Honors Society.