EHIM’s Mindi Fynke named WBEC-Great Lakes Role Model of the Year for 2011 Published on 10/5/2011 1:13:00 PM October 5, 2011 – SOUTHFIELD, Michigan – EHIM founder and CEO Mindi Fynke has been named the 2011 Role Model of the Year by the Women’s Business Enterprise Council – Great Lakes (WBEC-Great Lakes), Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey R. Lewis announced recently.
According to WBEC Great Lakes Executive Director Michelle Richards, the award is “bestowed upon one outstanding WBEC – Great Lakes WBE, each year, who has gone above and beyond to support the Women’s Business Enterprise Council – Great Lakes and its members with time and effort. Your leadership and support is an inspiration to all WBEC – Great Lakes members and friends.”
In nominating Mindi for the award, Jeffrey R. Lewis said, “I came to EHIM because it is a great company. But, I really came because EHIM has one of the greatest unheralded business leaders in America, Mindi Fynke.”
As part of the nomination process, Lewis identified some of the accomplishments that have made Mindi and EHIM recognized leaders in the evolving healthcare solutions arena, among them:
- EHIM is a top 25 Pharmacy Benefit Manager.
- Historically, EHIM has retained a staggering 98 percent of its clients over the years.
- Mindi received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the Consumer Sales category in Michigan and Northwest Ohio.
- Mindi was selected as a 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist, and a Corp! Magazine Entrepreneur of Distinction.
- EHIM has a national network of more than 60,000 participating pharmacies.
- EHIM services every type of business from those with two employees to thousands, among them the National Guard, NOAA Wage Marines, and the Veterans Administration, municipalities, school districts, local and regional government entities, and private and publicly held businesses in many different sectors.
Mindi will be presented with her award during the 11th Annual Great Lakes Women’s Business Conference on October 12, 2011 at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, Michigan.
About EHIM, Inc.
EHIM is an innovative solution to containing costs in healthcare. Operating as a third party administrator, pharmacy benefit manager and consultant, EHIM is true to what the name stands for: custom-designed programs tailored to the education and overall Employee Health Insurance Management. Founded in 1987, EHIM is a certified WBENC woman-owned business servicing members throughout the country. For more information, visit us online or call 248.948.9900.
About the WBEC
For more information on the Michigan Center for Empowerment and Economic Development, please visit their official web site. Information about the 11th Annual Great Lakes Women’s Business Conference is available online.
Award recognizes Ms. Fynke's leadership, innovation while building EHIM into a top PBM
