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Mitigate Partners

Mitigate Partners are a collaborative group of experienced employee benefit advisors and creative thinkers that have come together to bring a new approach and a new way of thinking about the problems ingrained in today’s healthcare / insurance and to identify and to develop resources and share solutions to these problems.

Managing Principal

Carl Schuessler

Carl Schuessler is the Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Mitigate Partners, a Risk Management, Cost Containment, and Employee Benefits Consulting firm established in 2015.

Co-Founder

Barry Murphy

Barry Murphy and Carl Schuessler formed Mitigate Partners for like-minded entrepreneurial benefit shops to formally collaborate and share resources for self-funded health plans.

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Josiah Allis

Josiah’s passion is assisting companies with 10-1000 employees provide better health benefits with more plan choices for their employees.

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Liz Antaya

Liz consults with her clients to create high-value, actively managed, employer-built health plans that deliver richer benefits for less money.

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Michael Avenevoli

Michael joined Higginbotham in June 2014 where he currently serves as a Managing Director and Shareholder.

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Will Brown

Passion—it’s the word that best describes Will Brown and his commitment to this industry. A passion to see better health outcomes for employees, a passion to strengthen...

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Stephen Daniel

My team and I leave behind wasteful, antiquated practices used to combat rising health care costs, to embrace a new method, a health benefits transformation.

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Robin Flaherty

Robin Flaherty started consulting in the employee benefits industry in 1997 after a career as a CPA in the tax department at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

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Mark Fox

Fox is a young entrepreneur who was named a Rising Star by EBA magazine for transforming
healthcare through transparency. He has clients as small as 50 employees and as large as 8,000 employees

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Kelly Fristoe

Kelly believes that all hard-working Americans deserve access to a transparent and fairly priced health care system. He is a health care financing specialist who can help you navigate these challenges for better outcomes.

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Cristy Gupton

With an advocate’s heart and a sense of true servant leadership, Cristy Gupton has endeavored to #letsfixhealthcare with her everyday activities as well as her long-term strategic goals.

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Rich Hejny

Rich’s mission is to inspire companies to take a more proactive approach in helping their employees succeed both physically and financially.

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Pat Isaac

Pat Isaac is the founder and CEO of Capital Services, Inc. Pat is an industry leader in Employee Benefits and Human Capital Solutions.

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Frank Kohn

As an industry insider and applying his deep institutional knowledge of how healthcare systems work, Frank helps employers evaluate opportunities to provide low cost / high quality care solutions to recruit, retain, and reward their workforce.

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Laurie MacDonald

Laurie began her career on the retirement side of benefits working with Fortune 500 employers to streamline plan administration.

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Tom Mastny

As the founder of The Pennant Group, Tom's vision is to effectively create, translate, and communicate benefits strategies for his clients.

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Jared Mongold

Jared is a licensed advisor in life and health and property and casualty with Insurance Office of America, based in Melbourne, FL.

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Scott Peloquin

Scott Peloquin, ChFC is the Chief Executive Officer of benefEx benefit consulting, headquartered in Florham Park, NJ.

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Taylor Rogers

Taylor helps companies strengthen their bond with employees by building generous benefit offerings that cost far less than traditional programs.

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Bill Rusteberg

Bill has been involved in the insurance industry since 1973 specializing in self-funded employee health and welfare plans.

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Tom Studer

Tom Studer, is the President and Founder of Symmetry Benefit Solutions, which started in 2015. His 40 plus years in Employee Benefits has been spent helping working Americans save money.

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Tommy Taylor

Tommy is Vice President and Managing Consultant with Higginbotham and heads the Oklahoma City Employee Benefits practice. He is comfortable in all aspects of Benefit and HR Consulting.

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Stephanie Waldrop

Stephanie provides employee benefit consultative and brokerage services for mid and large employers. She devotes her time to improving benefit pro- grams for employers and their employees.

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Chris Yarn

Chris Yarn A.K.A Frank MicDropper is the CEO of Walk On Clinic, Inc - a logistics and marketing company that brings in-network par physicians or direct primary care doctors to the workplace