Geoffrey Marsh, ASA, MAAA
President and Consulting Actuary

As the President of Marsh Consulting Group and a Consulting Actuary, Geoffrey Marsh specializes in strategy development, design, implementation, and ongoing management of health and welfare benefit programs.

Geoff has more than 25 years of industry experience, encompassing work with both the public and private sectors. He served on the consulting and brokerage sides of the business with an industry giant (Mercer), and worked as an actuarial analyst for insurers. This background enables him to be both an effective advocate for and consultant to companies ranging in size from 200 employees to the Fortune 500. more...

Brad Gauen, CLU, ChFC, FLMI
Consultant

Denver Employee Benefit Consultant Brad Gauen brings a wealth of experience and a unique 3-dimensional set of perspectives to the table when helping CFOs and HR executives solve insurance, healthcare cost and employee benefit program challenges. Brad has worked directly with insurance companies, as well as with an insurance broker and employee benefits consulting firms, to provide our clients with invaluable "experience from the other side." Brad shares what he sees as the biggest mistake mid-size organizations make with employee benefit decisions. more...

Shelley Reeger
Benefit Analyst, and Regulatory Compliance Specialist

A California native hailing from Bakersfield, Shelley spent her time living in Southern and Northern California putting herself through college. Prior to working with MCG, Shelley worked for seven years as a pre-school teacher before moving to a career in business. Shelley got her start in business, with sporting goods company Copeland Enterprises, by working at the company headquarters. Her work experience at Copeland’s consisted of starting out as an accounts payable clerk, moving to accounts payable supervisor and being promoted to working with the Director of Operations, overseeing the sales and daily operations of 47 stores.

A military wife, mother of a teenage daughter, and certified family readiness volunteer for the California National Guard, Shelley is also co-founder of a nonprofit organization called "Supplies For Soldiers" that raises money to send monthly "care packages" to 150 local soldiers deployed overseas. Shelley is also a devoted NFL (49ers) and NASCAR (Tony Stewart) fan. Shelley loves spending precious time with her husband and daughter. Their favorite Saturday activity is driving up the coast, visiting the Elephant Seals and eating lunch at their favorite restaurant.  

Jeannine Frey-Culp, MBA
Benefit Analyst

Jeannine brings to the MCG Team a wealth of experience, having served as a management consulting firm senior analyst and financial services account manager. She has provided strategic planning, economic analysis, and market research for both private and public sector clients, as well as adept development and management of financial databases and corporate communications for Fortune 500 clients. Jeannine also has a unique ability to generate successful solutions in high pressure situations—a skill well-honed through seven years working as a senior airport agent for a major airline. The culmination of her background is the ability to help analyze our clients' needs and corporate goals, and then develop benefits programs and services to best meet them.

An MBA honors graduate of Cal Poly and a cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Jeannine continues to build on her educational background. She is currently pursuing a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist certificate through the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and also completing a series of science courses at Cuesta College designed for health care professionals entering the RN program. Her free time is spent skiing, working out, or watching high school and professional baseball.

Janet Stebbins
Benefit Analyst
 
Janet enriches MCG’s benefit analysis team with an intimate knowledge of self-funded plan design and claims administration as well as COBRA compliance. A licensed Life Agent in California and certified COBRA Administrator, Janet began her career in the health insurance industry in 1985 as a claim examiner at Aetna. Prior to moving to the Central Coast in 2007, she served as a Claims Manager and IT Director in California’s Central Valley. In her free time she enjoys reading and traveling. Janet has four daughters and lives with her husband David in Atascadero.  

Robin Oswald
Communications Consultant

Robin brings a wide range of communications experience to MCG, having produced technical reports, newsletters, presentations, websites, and other promotional media. She wrote and designed her first newsletter for the high school swim team at the age of 15. Her aptitude for writing led her to a self-designed BA degree in environmental journalism at the College of Wooster (Ohio), where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Rather than pursue news media, however, Robin put her understanding of technical subjects to use. She has a unique understanding of how to communicate complicated subjects effectively, and has assisted clients ranging from non-profit organizations to federal agencies; and from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Formerly from Washington, DC, Robin has lived on the Central Coast since 2003. Prior to joining MCG, she ran her own business as an online triathlon coach and professionally raced triathlons. She enjoys being active as a “weekend warrior” and spending time with her family.

Kim Spangle
Visual Communication Specialist

A native Californian, originally from Sacramento, Kim Spangle came to the Central Coast in 1993. While earning her graphic design degree at Cal Poly, Kim fell in love with the area and decided to stay. Working in magazine publication, handling the creative and production for a national advertising agency, and providing freelance contracting to private clients ranging from big business to nonprofit organizations has allowed Kim to become a master at providing impeccable, innovative design for a host of integrated multimedia marketing tools and materials. While working on a wide range of projects, Kim applies the highest standards of design so that the final product successfully communicates the information in an organized manner but is also pleasing to the eye... and of course, ensuring that MCG clients are pleased with the results. When away from her computer, Kim enjoys devoting her leisure time to home improvement, wine tasting, gardening, traveling, music and good food.

Vic LeBlanc
Communications Specialist

Over 20 years of experience as a writer/reporter/broadcaster and editor for multi-media communications, along with extensive and continuing work in public relations and community outreach and education has honed Vic's skills, bringing MCG the expertise to offer our clients a wide-range of effectively written and produced communications services and products. Using training materials, benefits handbooks and employee benefits newsletters to specialized communications for print, web and broadcast media, MCG and Vic work together to ensure that essential information is delivered in a clear and concise way, taking care to also carefully integrate corporate messaging and imagery. Another one of MCG's Central Coast "transplants," Vic moved to California in 2000 from the Washington, DC-Metro area, where she worked on-air and in radio production as well as in the public relations and freelance writing industries. In her free time, Vic enjoys broadening her California and cultural horizons and listening to live music.