Get to Know the Highlight Health Team

Before becoming a co-founder of Highlight Health, Brian Strauss spent his career working with companies in the healthcare, insurance, and employee benefits industries, assisting with business strategy, operations, and distribution. Brian is a detail-oriented leader and communicator, who strategically and efficiently leads Highlight Health’s sales and administrative teams in providing affordable and accessible healthcare solutions to the company’s customers and clients.

Brian is a successful entrepreneur and a founding partner of NextGEN Benefit Advisors, an advisory and distribution organization focused on insurance and employee benefits. NextGEN specializes in the design, development, and delivery of cutting-edge employee benefits, insurance products, and support systems.

Brian is passionate about education and believes helping people better understand how to utilize and navigate healthcare services is paramount to addressing the skyrocketing costs of healthcare. His core values of “doing good in the world” and “helping others” are recognized by his colleagues, partners, and clients.

Brian graduated from McDaniel College with a B.S. in History and resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Shanon J. Carson is a Co-Founder of Highlight Health and its General Counsel. Shanon is currently an executive shareholder of a major U.S. law firm where he concentrates on representing plaintiffs in civil litigation and class actions. In that capacity, Shanon is well aware of the fraud, waste, and abuse that is rampant in the U.S. healthcare system, driving prices up for consumers, employers, unions, governments, and reinsurers. Beginning in 2020, Shanon, Josh, and Brian began to brainstorm solutions to the problem of overcharging in healthcare, and how to use state and federal laws and regulations better to the advantage of clients, thus reducing healthcare costs while maintaining the same quality of care. This effort resulted in identifying creative solutions to root out certain causes of the overpayments, and Highlight Health was born.

In 2009, Shanon was selected as one of 30 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” in Pennsylvania under the age of 40, and since 2015, has repeatedly been selected as one of the top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania as reported by Thomson Reuters. In 2018, Mr. Carson was named to the Philadelphia Business Journal‘s “2018 Best of the Bar: Philadelphia’s Top Lawyers.” Shanon has often been appointed by federal and state courts to serve as lead counsel in major litigation including in dozens of class action cases. Shanon is a member of the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Foundation, Litigation Counsel of America, the National Trial Lawyers – Top 100, and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. While attending the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Carson was senior editor of the Dickinson Law Review and clerked for a U.S. District Court Judge. Mr. Carson currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.