Equity Risk Partners Names Stratton Director – Business Development

Equity Risk Partners (ERP) has expanded its Chicago-based team with the addition of Brian Stratton as Director – Business Development. In his new role, Stratton will be responsible for building and managing client relationships primarily within the firm’s employee benefits practice.

Stratton joins Equity Risk Partners from Mercer, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, where as a principal in the Client Development group he provided employee benefit consulting services to private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies. In his decade-long career at Mercer, he held a number of increasing management positions focused on new client acquisition and the management of global accounts. He has broad experience that includes due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, ongoing management of companies’ health and benefit plans, as well as assisting clients with the management of their international benefit programs.