Marissa Benway

Product Owner, Catalyst
Connect in the real time

Marissa Benway is the product owner for Catalyst, Mployer Advisor's market intelligence and prospecting product. She joined Mployer in 2025 after nearly a decade building software for federal clients: as a lead technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton, an agile coach and program consultant at Zenetex, a project manager and scrum master at General Dynamics Information Technology, and a consultant at Deloitte, where she served as a product owner on human capital management systems. She writes about what the market data shows about brokers and employers, and about what Mployer is shipping. She is based in Nashville.

Other great pieces by this author:

Product Updates
Product Updates
This month, Catalyst makes prospecting and outreach easier with AI-powered email creation, more powerful search filters, improved industry and Workers' Comp data, broader access to Mployer data through AI assistants, and improvements to Advanced Analytics.
Author:
Marissa Benway
Product Updates
Product Updates
July brings one of our most substantial releases yet, with major updates across Insights+, Catalyst, and Vista. Insights+ is now faster and more efficient, with reports generated automatically the moment a request is submitted, along with real-time edits. Catalyst also gets significantly more powerful, with new AI-powered exports tailored to each employer, deeper visibility into commercial lines, and expanded AI assistant coverage into retirement and peer benchmarking. Vista makes report generation simpler and more flexible, building a broker-branded financial report from whatever benefits and carrier documents you have. Read on for the full details.
Author:
Marissa Benway
Employee Benefits
Employee Benefits
Selection Sunday has just wrapped up. Brackets are officially out. March Madness has always been one of the few moments where everyone at work — finance, sales, HR, leadership — is talking about the same thing. And this year we thought: why not make it a little more meaningful for the HR and employer community?
Author:
Marissa Benway
Employee Benefits
Employee Benefits
As Mployer continues to grow, our visual presence needs to grow with it. For 2026, we redesigned our award badges to better reflect the credibility and trust behind the recognition they represent. The new designs use platinum and gold to add hierarchy and clearly differentiate rankings at a glance, making them easier to understand and more effective in real-world use. The result is a cleaner, more premium look that reinforces the value of the data and insights behind every badge.
Author:
Marissa Benway
Mployer, the nation’s leader in providing employee benefits ratings and analytics, today announced the launch of Insights+, an industry-first solution designed to empower employers, employees and leading brokers to rate their employee benefit plans against similar companies and easily communicate their position to employees and recruits.
Author:
Marissa Benway