Meet the Team
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Dr. Joe Jenkins
Co-Founder
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Justin Thomas
Co-Founder/Employee Benefits Advisor
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Derrick DePriest
Underwriter Consultant/Sr. Account Executive
Would You Be My Broker?
Bull Benefits was launched by Dr. Joe Jenkins and Justin Thomas of dooable health when they decided to say “yes” to a client request.
After working together for several years at dooable health, one of their health coaching clients made a unique ask: “would you be willing to be our new health broker?” They jumped into a new industry (once again) to disrupt the status quo of employee benefit consulting to help family-owned and member-owned businesses attract and retain great talent with strategies once only reserved for large enterprises.
This required a new company to be formed, licenses to be attained, partnerships to be created and strategies to be vetted and tested. After a couple of years working with forward-thinking small business owners ranging from 5-500 employees, Bull Benefits publically launched beyond its initial early adopters. Today Bull Benefits focuses on self-insured companies, but book an intro call to see if you can benefit from the strategies that other clients have experienced 30% cost savings.
Read some of our testimonials to hear how we partner with our clients to serve their needs.
The story behind the name, Bull Benefits.
We are committed to finding solutions and helping our clients grow like in a “Bull Market.” Plus, we have some fun connections to our namesake.
Justin and his wife were cattle farmers (for a brief and amazing time), managing a herd of 50 cows, including a bull!
The team is based around Durham, NC, nicknamed “The Bull City”
Derrick was a professional baseball player, including a stint playing for the Royals AA affiliate, the Wichita “Wranglers”
Dr. Joe likes to say, “let’s take the bull out of expensive, ineffective benefits,” so that always brings a smile
Justin’s YGuides nickname is “Running Bull”
With all of these connections, the name just stuck!