Sher Sparano has over 30 year of experience in the health care industry. Sher has held positions at all levels in the employee benefits and health care arena, to include working as a benefits specialist for multiple hospitals/medical centers, as an administrator for the New York State Nurses Benefits and Pension Funds, as a senior executive at Empire BlueCross/Blue Shield and as a vice president of BlueCross Maryland's manage care division.

Sher has also been responsible in the direction of many health care components such as benefit design and implementation, negotiations, participant enrollment, education, customer service and consulting, underwriting, claim processing, marketing, contracts, employee handbooks, conflict resolution and much more.

When Sher founded Benefits Advisory Service, she took on numerous consulting projects, offering clients a unique advantage with her invaluable expertise having worked from all perspectives in the health care arena. In 2017, Benefits Advisory Service joined the OneGroup team of insurance, risk management, employee benefit and human resources specialists in order to offer her clients expanded resources and to better advocate on their behalf.

Sher remains active in the health care community with local and national participation in the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), as an acting board member in the Queens Chamber of Commerce and OASAS Compensation Committee, and by attending critical meetings in Albany and Washington, D.C. She is also a firm believer in community service involvement and as such serves on numerous boards and continues to serve the Samaritan Foundation, and the Rego Park/Forest Hills Lions Club to name a few.