Executive Bio

Braden Brown is Executive Vice President, General Counsel for HealthSmart and leads HealthSmart’s legal and compliance teams. He joined HealthSmart in 2015, was named SVP, Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Affairs in 2021, and promoted to EVP, General Counsel in September 2022. Braden has resonsiblity of client negotiations, complex contracts for all HealthSmart products, and corporate compliance and ethics. Braden also supervises the paralegal team and external counsels and coordinates our partnerships with external Legal and Compliance groups. Braden has also been a key player in managing HealthSmart relationships with business partners and key vendors, and brings a deep knowledge of the HealthSmart TPA products, providers, network, PBM and business partnerships to the Excecutive Leadership Team. 

Braden earned his Juris Doctor degree from Texas Tech University School of Law, and a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.