BENU Executive Peter Rodes to Address Third Annual Consumer-Directed Healthcare Congress.

Business Editors

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2003

Peter B. Rodes, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for BENU, Inc., will be a featured speaker on Friday, July 25th at 2:25 PM at the Third Annual Consumer-Directed Healthcare Congress, being held July 23-25, 2003 at the Renaissance Chicago Northshore in Northbrook, Illinois. The Congress, which has been called the "leading independent event covering the business realities of consumer-directed healthcare," is being sponsored by Global Business Research in cooperation with the Midwest Business Group on Health.

Rodes will discuss "next generation" consumer-directed healthcare strategies, focusing on benefits choice centers for the often overlooked mid-sized employer market (companies of 100-1000 employees). Rodes will describe BENU's unique partnership with CIGNA Washington and Group Health Options to offer an online benefits center in Washington State, and will offer a "lessons learned" perspective that includes broker and client case studies and outcomes.

Rodes has been involved in the healthcare and high-tech industries for more than a decade. Prior to joining BENU, he was Marketing Director of ChannelPoint, a leading supplier of B2B software for the insurance and financial services industries.

BENU, Inc., is a pioneering benefits solutions company that packages the products of leading insurers to create unprecedented cost controls and benefits choices for the mid-sized employer marketplace.

For more information on BENU, call 1-800-630-2368 or visit the BENU web site at www.benu.com. For more information about the Congress or to register, call 800-868-7188 today, or visit the web site at www.consumerdirectedhealth.com.