As Managing Partner & Principal of Benefit Commerce Group, an Alera Group company, my team and I develop and implement proven, progressive and sustainable strategies for employee benefits. Through collaboration and my 30+ years of experience inside the insurance industry, we provide understanding, insights and leverage to meet our clients’ needs and exceed their expectations.I have walked in the shoes of business owners/employers, and I relate directly to employers’ struggles and challenges. As CEO of multiple large corporations, I have successfully handled financial, operational and HR issues, including employee health insurance costs. As an executive in the insurance industry and now in employee benefits, I have spent my entire career developing, managing and administering health plans. Benefit Commerce Group is a progressive and results-driven employee benefits and commercial property & casualty consulting and brokerage firm. We are committed to creating strategies and solutions that make life easier and better for companies and their HR teams by providing the best cost-effective benefits value for employers, employees and families and providing risk management and insurance services to businesses.Our focus for employee benefits is on controlling healthcare costs through plan design, wellness programs and funding structures that reward employees for making good healthcare choices. We have a strong emphasis on educating and communicating with employees on how to navigate through the complex healthcare system.We help our employee benefits clients develop the most cost-effective solutions, and we become an extension of our clients’ HR teams, helping them design and enhance employee benefits programs so they can recruit and keep productive workers. On the P&C side, we provide strategic consulting, risk management and placement of insurance coverage for businesses throughout the United States. We believe in partnership and the long-term value it creates for all parties. We focus on actions that reduce costs, which include the premiums you pay, your time, energy and lost opportunity.As part of Alera Group, we thrive through collaboration. To us, collaboration is much more than choosing something off the shelf for our clients or sharing best practices. It means identifying the experts in our ranks, finding the starting point of a solution and then working together to make it even better for our clients. Our corporate mantra is: WE SAY WHAT WE’LL DO and WE DO WHAT WE SAY.