Michael Sternklar

Benefit Express provides employee benefit administration services. It offers self-service platform which allows clients to have direct access to: customized content delivery, enrollment assistance, employee benefit education tools, transactional administrative processing and tracking, carrier billing reconciliation, vendor data-links and detailed HR reporting. The company was founded by Maria D. Bradley in 2001 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL.

Allied Benefit Systems, LLC is one of the largest independent third-party administrators in the United States, founded in 1980. The company is based in Chicago, IL, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company provides innovative and customized benefit plans for small to large organizations, with healthcare designed to protect employees and their families. Allied offers self-insurance benefits solutions that align with individual choice and organizational needs, integrating medical management innovations and cost-control strategies. The company delivers world-class customer service coupled with state-of-the-art technology to ensure claims are processed efficiently and accurately. Alliedbenefit.com provides one of the most robust online reporting tools in the industry, simplifying the administration process with digital access to information. Michael Sternklar has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Shore Capital Partners LLC (Shore Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Justin Ishbia. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.