Wood, Richard Agt

Mercer Human Resource Consulting specializes in providing consulting, outsourcing and investment services. It works with clients to solve their complex benefit and human capital issues, and also helps manage health, retirement and other benefits. The firm has more than 15,000 employees who serve clients in over 180 cities in nearly 40 countries and territories worldwide. Established in 1937, Mercer Human Resource Consulting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, and it maintains a presence in Charlotte, N.C. The firm s investment services include investment consulting and multimanager investment management. Its global merger and acquisition consulting division advises clients on transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, initial public offerings, divestitures and business transformations. Mercer Human Resource Consulting also publishes a newsletter that features information on several human resource topics.

Marsh is one of the world's leading risk and insurance services firms. The company employs nearly 30,000 employees and has annual revenues exceeding $5 billion. It provides its customers with a variety of services, such as worldwide risk management, risk consulting, insurance broking, financial solutions and insurance program management services for businesses, public entities, associations, professional services organizations and private clients. The firm provides advice and transactional capabilities to clients in more than 100 countries. Other services include employee practices liability, trade credit, crisis consulting, crisis academy, political risk assessment and a number of specialty Japan client services. The company is part of the family of Marsh & McLennan companies that also includes Kroll, Guy Carpenter, Putnam Investments, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Mercer s specialty consulting businesses. Marsh is headquartered in New York, with an office in Charlotte, N.C.