Mike Hanlon, Abett’s founder, and CEO was the 7th employee at Amazon.com. Hanlon was at Amazon.com from 1995 to 200. Notable accomplishments included building the first versions of the wholesale ordering system and the internal website used by customer service.
Hanlon has a Ph.D. in Economics. After Amazon.com, he was a professor at the University of Washington, in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He led research teams that used machine learning to create new models of patient-level risk adjustment, for which he and his team won national awards.