Event Details

TOPIC:  Benefit Outlook 2018

Presented by: Market Square Advisors

The legislative, compliance, and benefit design changes that will impact your company, managment, and employees in 2018 and beyond.

Jeffrey (Jeff) Ford

Jeff is the President and Senior Account Executive of J.M. Ford and Associates, an insurance and employee benefits brokerage located in Vinton, VA.  With over 20 years of employee benefit management experience, Jeff has also served as Treasurer of the Southwest Chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters for the past 4 years, during which he has also met with legislators on Capitol Hill to help influence health care policy.  Jeff is a father of 4 and a graduate of LaSalle College and Century University with degrees in business administration.

Mark Strassner

Mark is currently the Vice President of Sales for IBSi, a general agency for ancillary employees’ benefits.  Mark has served as a carrier representative for various life and disability carriers in his 16 year career in the employee benefits industry.  He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and resides in Charlotte, NC.  Mark is married and has three children. 

Mike Martin

During the last 30 years Mike has worked with individuals, families and employers on healthcare benefit choices and the challenges they face. From small employers to Fortune 500 companies the needs are basically the same. With healthcare costs on the rise, Healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act changing daily, the time to provide a new solution is now. Mike has helped thousands of employees and hundreds of employers with better and more cost-effective benefit choices and education strategies.

SHRM/HRCI Recertification Credits

TBA

Monthly Meetings are generally held the fourth Tuesday of the month.  We have both breakfast and lunch meetings during the year.  Please click on the specific meeting you are interested in for meeting times and location.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Registration for Monthly Meetings will close at noon the day before the meeting.  Due to the costs involved with securing adequate meeting space and meals, refunds will not be granted if cancellation is not received at least 24 hours in advance. Send all cancellation notices via e-mail to rkevalshrm@gmail.com. Substitutions are allowed, however the non-member rate may apply.  If we do not receive a cancellation notice more than 24 hours before the event, you will be required to pay for the event, even if you are unable to attend.

Members and guests who are unable to register in advance are invited to attend as a walk in and pay onsite.  We usually have a few extra seats to accommodate onsite registrations, but seating is not guaranteed and preregistration is encouraged.