Shane Cruz Biography and Net Worth

Shane has been a part of the GoHealth senior leadership team since 2004. In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Shane is responsible for driving innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decision making across all areas of our business. Since the beginning, Shane has played a critical role on the executive team to help shape the company’s strategy and to oversee its execution.

Prior to his role as COO, Shane served as the Chief Technology Officer of GoHealth. His responsibilities included setting the company’s strategic product direction, overseeing software development and operations, ensuring data is used as a core asset for the business, and building technology partner and government relations. Under Shane’s leadership, GoHealth has continued to prove itself as one of the most nimble and fastest-growing companies in the healthcare space. This technical and operational agility has enabled GoHealth to achieve feats such as becoming the first web broker to enroll consumers in subsidized health plans under the Affordable Care Act and to more recently become the country’s leading unbiased distributor of Medicare Advantage plans in less than four years.

Prior to GoHealth, Shane held technical leadership positions at Convergys and the world-renowned MIT Media Lab. He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.