Insurance Advisory Committee members

​​State Government Affairs Director
Pacific Northwest Region (WA, OR, ID, AK)
Cigna Healthcare
Phone : 503-577-8856

Jennifer Baker is the State Director of Government Affairs for Cigna Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest region. She manages Cigna’s advocacy agenda on state legislative and regulatory issues. She is the current Chair for the Oregon State Bar Health Law Section. She brings over 20 years of government relations experience in Oregon, focusing on health insurance since 2011. Her focus for the Insurance Advisory Committee is to find new ways to provide access and affordability to quality health care for all Oregon consumers. She attended undergraduate school at Loyola University Chicago and earned her law degree from Willamette University College of Law.​

Ryan Chieffo is the director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at The Standard. Ryan joined The Standard in 2016 as an attorney in the Legal and Compliance division. Before coming to The Standard, Ryan was an assistant director at the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation and an employee benefits attorney at Perkins Coie LLP. Ryan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Siena College in New York and his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

​​Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary,
United Heritage Financial Group, Inc. and United Heritage Life Insurance Company
Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Secretary,
Sublimity Insurance Company and United Heritage Property & Casualty Company
Phone: 493-6175 (Desk) | (800) 657-6351 (Toll Free)
Email: ​mgustavson@unitedheritage.com

Michelle Gustavson​ is an experienced corporate attorney with in-house experience representing a variety of industries including global food and agribusiness, health content and patient education solutions, and insurance. She joined United Heritage Financial Group, Inc. in January 2023 and currently serves as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary of Sublimity Insurance Company and United Heritage Property & Casualty Company, and Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of United Heritage Life Insurance Company and United Heritage Financial Group, Inc. In her role, Michelle manages legal and compliance matters for these corporations in the property and casualty, individual life and annuity, and group insurance markets.

​​Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer
PacificSource Health Plans
​ Phone: 503-802-5327
1500 SW First Ave, Ste. 200
Portland, OR 97201

​Dave Cass is Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer for PacificSource Health Plans. Dave oversees the compliance program for all lines of medical and dental business including commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plans. His responsibilities also include providing leadership for the Fraud, Waste and Abuse program and Internal Audit function.

Dave has worked in health insurance since 1999 and has nineteen years of experience in regulatory and compliance work. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Portland State University.

​​Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Oregon Mutual
Phone: 503-883-1402
james.workinger@ormutual.com

James Workinger is the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oregon Mutual. Founded two centuries ago in the beautiful Willamette Valley on the principle of neighbors helping neighbors, Oregon Mutual proudly continues its tradition of service to members as the West’s oldest mutual property and casualty insurer.