Company: Karras-Rule Insurance Services, LLC

Title: Principal/Broker

Specialization: Commercial & Workers’ Compensation

Phone Number: (408) 385-1921

Email Address: ann@karrasruleins.com

Karras-Rule Insurance Services, LLC locally owned & operated by Ann Karras-Rule and Keith Rule specialize in all aspects of Commercial Insurance. Having worked in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, they understand the trends and needs of both emerging and established businesses. Tailoring solutions based on clients needs helping them to understand the exposures so they can make informed decision on which insurance products to purchase.

Keith & Ann also focus on relationships as people want to know with whom they are doing business.  They put their clients’ interest first and are often told they are easy to do business with.  They work with leading insurance carriers so always endeavor to find the best rates with preferred companies.

Combined they have over 40 years experience in the insurance industry, partnering with leading insurance carriers and professionals to bring the utmost in insurance protection to their clients with a level of personalized service and attention they deserve.

Company: IBIS Advisors Co.
Title: President / CEO
Specialization: International Benefits Consultant
Phone: (323) 954-7000
Email Address: info@ibisadvisors.com

 Richard Polak is a specialist in international human resources.  In his 30 years of providing advice to the world’s largest corporations, Mr. Polak has developed a detailed understanding of the interaction between the US and other countries, allowing him to offer his clients unique and inventive solutions that go beyond conventional consulting advice.

 Mr. Polak has advised more than 300 of the world’s most innovative emerging multinationals in international management, human resources and compensation and benefits issues.  He has consulted and conducted studies on the design and implementation of overseas pension programs, benefits and compensation for expatriates and third country nationals, multinational pooling, investment vehicles for overseas pension plans, consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, administration, communication programs, and corporate policy development.

Mr. Polak holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Mathematics from Alfred University in New York, with continued studies at Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, and UCLA.

Company: Financial Telesis, Inc.
Title: Retirement Plan Advisor
Specialization: Retirement Plans
Phone Number: (408) 398-2582
Email Address: miketuft@financialtelesisinc.biz

Mike Tuft has been an instrumental Strategic Business Partner for many years with our company. He assists our clients in all types of group qualified retirement plans. He began his career in financial services by joining Merrill Lynch in August 1982, moving to Drexel Burnham Lambert in December of 1985 and then to Aetna Financial Services in 1989.

Mike created The Retirement Plan Navigator™, which is a series of best practices for group retirement plans, in January 2003. The Retirement Plan Navigator includes; The Design Maximizer™, The Platform Evaluator™, The Communication Formula™, and The Retirement Plan Snapshot. Currently, Mike serves over 100 medium and small size businesses who are discovering, designing, implementing and reviewing the best retirement plans for their needs.

Mike currently holds Series 7 (General Securities), Series 26 (Registered Principal), Series 63 (Blue Sky) and Series 65 (Investment Advisor Representative) security licenses. He is also holds Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designations. He is currently pursuing his Registered Employee Benefits Consultant (REBC) and Registered Health Underwriter (RHU) designations. As a valued member of our team, we are pleased to have him on board to help you with all of your retirement needs.

Company:  McGinty Financial Group
Title:  President
Specialization:  Life and disability insurance
Phone Number:  408-779-1676
Email Address:  kmcginty@finsvcs.com

Kevin is responsible for the Estate Planning and Business Insurance needs of our clients. He assists many of our executives with Key Person Insurance, Buy-Sell Insurance and Executive Disability wrap around contracts. In today's high tech market many companies are dependent upon the vision and engineering experience of key individuals, Kevin assists in developing programs, which ensure the protection of the companies against the loss of key persons.

Kevin also handles all of our individual Life and Disability Insurance requests. He will contact the applicant directly and help them through the process of acquiring individual insurance.

Company: Lawroom
Title: CEO
Specialization: Online Employment Law Answers and Training
Phone Number: 800-652-9546
Email Address: sales@lawroom.com

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LawRoom was founded in 1994 and is located in Walnut Creek, California. Since 1994, LawRoom has helped over 50,000 employers comply with the complex, conflicting, and overlapping state and federal employment laws through our KnowledgeCentral service. During this period, LawRoom provided over 1 million automated answers (via the online library) to its members.

LawRoom has an editorial staff comprised of 5 lawyers. On a weekly basis, our editors analyze new cases, interpret new regulations and laws, spot legal trends, and educate our corporate members on how to comply. LawRoom specializes in understanding employment laws and explaining them to employers in clear, simple and useful language.

Since 2004, LawRoom started online training (ClassroomCentral) and has trained over 2,100 employers, ranging from 10 to 7,500 employees. Most of the training is on AB 1825 Anti-Harassment, but has other employment law courses.

Company: Benetrac
Title: Regional Sales Director
Specialization: Online Enrollment
Phone Number: 925-398-8504
Email Address: jcriddle@beneTrac.com

Please visit www.benetrac.com for more information about Benetrac.

Company: International Employee Benefit Solutions, Inc. (IEBS, Inc) dba Global Benefit Associates of CA (GBA)
Title: President / Vice President of Operations
Specialization: International Health Benefits
Phone Number: 650-875-6862 & 925-513-0803
Email Address: rudygba@iebsinc.com & carolyn@iebsinc.com

International Employee Benefit Solutions, Inc. (IEBS, INC.) dba Global Benefit Associates of CA is an independent international employee benefits company providing clients with value added solutions to their international employee benefits needs and assisting them in managing their non-US benefit programs in a competitive and cost efficient manner, consistent with their global corporate strategy. Through our association with global partners we bring in-depth international experience.

Our services may be engaged on a brokerage or a fee basis.

Title: Lead Web Developer and Designer

Specializations: Web Design, Website Development, Graphic Design, Application Development

Phone Number: (925) 719-7870

Email Address: schnepple@gmail.com

I am an upscale full service web developer and designer. I will personally work with you and your team to create an unparalleled web presence for your company or organization. I have over 10 years of experience and I can design your site in such a way that it gives your staff the ability to edit and maintain the website at their convenience.

A brand new website paired with high quality e-mail marketing campaigns and custom Facebook and Twitter pages will make your web initiatives the envy of clients and colleagues. My goal is to surpass your expectatons with the quality of design and functionality I deliver. Contact me today and let's talk about your project.