User:CrisLins/William Davis Dyer

--CrisLins (talk) 01:03, 17 July 2010 (UTC)William D. (Davis) Dyer was born in Orange, NJ in 1964. William is a graduate of University of San Diego where he attended on a scholarship in 1986. In 1994 at the age of 29 he launched his first company Healthcare Plus Insurance Services, where it capitalized on the growing managed care industry and provided an insurance product that was not readily available at a competitive price. This product was called Provider Stop Loss. In 1999 he re-branded the company as HCP National Insurance Services as it became a national insurance brokerage. HCP insures today 100’s of thousands of capitates lives, physicians, large and small businesses in healthcare, and numerous other industries, alternative energy and public entities.

HCP under William Dyer’s direction has added compliance services, helping its clients through education and risk management comply with Federal and State laws. The latest product that William is directing the launch of is a HIPPA HITECH compliance online solution. William is blogger http://www.hcpnational.com/blog/. Has written articles for various publications and given numerous talks with various groups.

William is the direct descendent of two famous Dyer’s in American history. His great grandfather was Frank Lewis Dyer. He was an inventor, author, movie executive and general counsel to Thomas Edison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dyer

William’s other famous direct relation is Mary Dyer; the only woman is US history to be hung for her religious beliefs in 1660 in Boston by the Puritans. There is statue of her in Boston on the site where she was hung today []. Mary married William Dyer, William D Dyer’s 6th great grandfather, in 1633. William D Dyer likes to Joke that he had a descendent who the Puritans had to hang to stop her.