
Who are we?
David Hansmann and Rick Goldfien have over 40 years of experience between them in the insurance industry and in executive positions in both privately and publicly-held companies. In these roles they have dealt extensively with insurance and other real-world issues. We’ve sat in your chair and stood in your shoes! We created Auxilian with the goal of helping our clients get the most from their total benefits budget.
We are located in the beautiful San Francisco
Bay Area with offices in San Rafael and San Francisco.
The Principals
Richard Goldfien
Rick Goldfien is cofounder of Auxilian Insurance Services. Prior to
founding Auxilian, Rick was a finance and operations executive with
several mid-size and large companies. After receiving his masters
degree from UC Davis, Rick worked for Fireman's Fund, first as an
actuary, and lastly as head of Worldwide Financial Planning,
reporting to the CFO. He went on to manage the Finance and Actuarial
functions for Lifeguard, a not-for-profit health plan based in San
Jose, then became SVP of Finance and Business Development for
QuadraMed, a publicly-traded healthcare software company, where he
also served a stint as interim CFO. Immediately prior to founding
Auxilian he was with InteliStaf (now a subsidiary of MSN Healthcare,
focusing primarily on interim staffing in the nursing field), as
treasurer, general manager of the Major Client Division and
CFO for the Travel Nursing Division.
David Hansmann
David Hansmann is cofounder of Auxilian Insurance Services. David
has over 20 years of insurance and finance experience with companies
ranging from less than 10, to over 5,000 employees. David received
his Bachelors degree from Dartmouth and his MBA from the University
of Chicago and began his business career as an actuarial student at
Cigna Corporation, in Hartford CT. Immediately prior to founding
Auxilian, David was the top finance executive at Abaca, an anti-spam
hardware & software vendor, where he was responsible for all finance
activities. He was also CFO for Exergy, a company that designs and
builds efficient power plants and for Aurora Biofuels, and served in
various executive roles at Fireman's Fund, Callen Associates and
QuadraMed.
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