Ash Adds Health Care Industry Veteran Jon Stout To Board Of Directors, Names Health Tech Finance Leader Matt Benton CFO

Both executives bring firsthand experience scaling health tech companies through hypergrowth and acquisition by UnitedHealth, strengthening Ash's leadership as it expands its at-home testing platform for health plans nationwide.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ash, a leading provider of white-label at-home health testing and care delivery, today announced two additions to its leadership team. Jon Stout has joined Ash's Board of Directors, and Matt Benton has joined as Chief Financial Officer. The appointments add proven operating and financial leadership as Ash rapidly accelerates its work with Medicare Advantage plans nationwide.

Jon Stout Joins Board of Directors

Stout is President of Motivo Health, a clinical supervision platform for the behavioral health workforce. He brings a rare combination of health plan and health tech scaling experience to Ash's board: he spent more than a decade at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, including as Head of Value-Based Programs and Chief of Staff to the CEO, before joining AbleTo Inc., a digital behavioral health platform, as Chief Growth Officer. Stout helped scale AbleTo through its acquisition by UnitedHealth's Optum, then served as a Venture Partner at Optum Ventures.

“I've spent my career watching health plans and health tech companies work around each other,” said Jon Stout. “Ash is built to close that gap — literally. I'm looking forward to helping the team think through what disciplined, payer-aligned growth looks like as they scale.”

In this role, Stout will leverage his experience sitting on both sides of the table to pressure- test growth decisions from every angle that matters to a health plan customer, including refining its gap closure product to help payers easily activate hard-to-reach members.

Matt Benton Joins as Chief Financial Officer

Benton joined Ash as CFO in March 2026, bringing more than a decade of finance leadership at fast-growing health tech companies. In this pivotal role, he will build scalable financial infrastructure, bridge the gap between growth goals and financial reality, and support investor relations.

He most recently served as CFO of Nayya, an AI-native benefits intelligence platform serving more than 4 million employees across Fortune 500 employers, where he led finance, legal, and revenue operations through 5x growth. Before Nayya, Benton spent six years in finance leadership roles at AbleTo Inc., rising from Manager of Strategic Finance to Senior Vice President of Finance. At AbleTo, he co-led a $500 million recapitalization with UnitedHealth Group and, 18 months later, the company's full acquisition by UnitedHealth — helping scale the business roughly 15x along the way.

"Health plans are under real pressure to close care gaps at scale, and that's the exact problem Ash was built to solve," said Matt Benton, CFO. "I don’t see my role as just to build finance that keeps up with Ash’s growth — it's to give everyone here the information and advice they need to make the most sound decisions they can, and the discipline to back the right bets as we scale, so that Ash can serve a real need for as many health plan members as possible."

Stout and Benton overlapped at AbleTo Inc. during its scale-up and acquisition by UnitedHealth, giving Ash's leadership team firsthand, shared experience building a health tech company.

“Jon and Matt have both been in the room when a health tech company scales the right way,” said David Stein, CEO and co-founder of Ash. “That kind of experience is exactly what we need as we deepen our work with Payers. Matt brings the financial discipline to scale responsibly, and Jon brings a board-level view shaped by years on both the payer and operator side of growth. We're fortunate to have them.”

About Ash

Founded in 2019, Ash is an at-home health testing platform that helps health plans and healthcare organizations close HEDIS care gaps by bringing lab-quality testing directly into members' homes. Ash pairs a white-label member experience with AI-powered engagement to activate hard-to-reach populations at scale. Ash has processed more than four million tests and partnered with hundreds of healthcare organizations nationwide. Ash is HIPAA compliant, and its lab network is CAP accredited and CLIA certified. Learn more at poweredbyash.com.