To her polite embarrassment, HP’s Elaine Beddome got the full-court press from her team when they nominated her for EBN’s 2013 Benny Awards. Her name was thrown in by Samanntha DuBridge, senior director of global benefits strategy, but UnitedHealth’s Chief Medical Officer, Richard Migliori, and Amanda Arellano, director of HR employee experience for HP, both felt the need to write separate letters endorsing Beddome.
Elaine Beddome, HP’s vice president of global benefits and employee mobility, has been selected as the 2013 Judges’ Choice Benny Award Winner. We connected with her to ask what she’s been doing at HP, and how to administer benefits programs on a global scale.