About

We built the benefit we wished existed

WellCore360 started with a frustration our founders had seen from every angle, and a conviction that better benefits should not have to cost more.

Our story

Why we built WellCore360

The problem

For most companies, benefits have become a zero-sum trap. Costs climb every year, so employers cut, freeze, or quietly pass more along. Employees feel it in paychecks that do not stretch and in stress that is financial and mental, not only physical.

And too often, the benefits that do exist never reach the people who need them most.

The conviction

Our founders did not accept that it had to be a tradeoff. With the right structure, a company can add real benefits, raise employee take-home pay, and lower its own costs at the same time.

Not a win taken from one side to give to another. A genuine win for everyone.

The philosophy

So we built around the whole person, not a single slice of it. Physical, mental, and financial health are not separate lanes. They are one connected system, and each one shapes the others.

Financial stress shows up as sleepless nights and real physical symptoms. Poor health drains savings and focus. Anxiety makes both harder to manage. A program that treats only one of the three is only doing part of the job, and it leaves the compounding gains of the other two on the table.

That interconnection is the whole reason WellCore360 is built around Mind, Body, and Wallet at once, as one system rather than three separate perks.

What we built

The founding team had lived both sides of this: benefits technology, administration, and operations on one hand, and consumer financial advocacy on the other. They saw the gap clearly, and they knew how to close it.

In the end, they built the thing they wished had existed, guided by one principle that has run through everything they have done: create meaningful value and make people's lives better.

The people

Three co-founders behind it

A team that has built, scaled, and exited real companies, and that dedicates its focus to WellCore360 today.

Joel Carter
Co-Founder & CEO

Joel Carter

Leadership & strategy

Joel Carter leads WellCore360 as Co-Founder and CEO. A serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in benefit technology, benefit administration, and service delivery, he has founded and successfully exited multiple companies across the benefits ecosystem, including benefit administration SaaS (Secova), technology-enabled employee benefit services (Empact), and employee benefit fintech (Finnita). He is also a co-founder of Landterra, a global knowledge process outsourcing company. At the core of every venture is a simple guiding principle: create meaningful value and make people's lives better. Before launching his entrepreneurial career, Joel spent nine years in management consulting, progressing from pre-contract analyst to Director of Consulting Services. He lives in Greensboro, Georgia, is the proud father of two remarkable young women, and the husband of the most talented interior designer in America, despite her not (yet) having her own reality TV show.

Ilyce Glink
Co-Founder

Ilyce Glink

Partnerships, communications & financial wellness

Ilyce Glink oversees partnerships, communications, and financial wellness for WellCore360. An award-winning financial journalist, best-selling author, and media strategist, she has founded four companies, including Think Glink Media and the financial wellness platform Best Money Moves. She has written more than a dozen books on personal finance, with nearly a million copies in print, wrote the nationally syndicated "Real Estate Matters" column for 33 years, and spent more than eight years as the financial reporter for WGN-TV. Her work has earned an Emmy nomination, the SABEW President's Award, and multiple honors for business journalism. In her free time, she works on her novels and travels to far-flung places, mostly to get away from Wi-Fi.

Angus Carroll
Co-Founder

Angus Carroll

Product & technology

Angus Carroll oversees product and technology for WellCore360. He has held executive roles in technology, marketing, and business development at both Fortune 500 companies, including Dun and Bradstreet and Ceridian, and fast-moving technology firms, including Medicus and MindLeaders. He was founding President of the financial wellness platform Best Money Moves and a Vice President at Cengage Learning, one of the largest educational publishers in the U.S., where he led online content and digital product development. When he isn't designing digital products, he is the curator of Darwin and Dinosaurs, a traveling museum exhibit exploring Charles Darwin's life and work, from his voyage around the world to his theory of natural selection.

The teams behind it

Built and run by real teams

Payroll Integrations TeamA dedicated group of technology and payroll specialists who make client onboarding and every payroll integration seamless and accurate.
Clinical TeamExperienced, compassionate PAs and NPs, specially trained in health coaching, clinical care, and wellness support.
Concierge TeamA white-glove team that becomes your people's single point of contact, scheduling their medical and financial appointments and handling the details so benefits actually get used.

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