WellCare names new CIO

TAMPA — WellCare Health Plans Inc. has named Rose Hauser as the company's new senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO).

Hauser most recently spent two years as executive vice president and CIO for FairPoint Communications, a telecom and broadband provider. She was senior vice president and CIO for Hawaiian Telcom from 2008 to 2011. She was vice president, systems for Freddie Mac, and prior to that was vice president, systems for MCI. She was also vice president of systems, architecture for XO Communications and spent four years with Verizon, first as vice president of strategic billing & business solutions and later as group information officer.

Hauser also spent several years as a management consultant and software architect.