Team

Mr. Ross is President of The Ross Companies and directs the firm's diversified practice in executive compensation, retirement benefits, actuarial services, employee benefits, and estate and personal financial planning for high net worth individuals and families.

He is an advisor to CEOs, boards of directors, and compensation committees of a wide range of business entities, both public and privately held. He is also a co-author of the book Executive Employment and Compensation. Please read more

Mr. Ross is Vice President of The Ross Companies. He designs and implements life, disability, and long-term care insurance programs for business and estate planning clients. In this role he coordinates the efforts of lawyers, financial advisors, and accountants to ensure that all of the client's needs are satisfied. Please read more

Mr. Foight is a senior consultant in the firm’s specialty consulting and senior management consulting groups. He advises clients on employment and compensation arrangements for senior executives, and retirement plan design and administration.

His services include design and implementation of executive compensation programs to advance the sponsor’s business strategy, board compensation programs, and qualified and nonqualified retirement plans. In addition, he has experience in financial planning, outsourcing services, group benefits and life and health insurance. Please read more

Mr. Fiore is a senior consultant in The Ross Companies’ senior management consulting group. He works closely with corporate executives, and with boards of directors and compensation committees, in designing performance-driven compensation programs for senior management and competitive programs for directors.

He is an expert in equity compensation plans and was an early proponent of stock ownership guidelines for management and boards. He draws on his extensive experience in finance and accounting to implement incentive-driven, pay-for-performance annual and long-term compensation plans that reward earnings growth, and stock appreciation and other performance measures. Please read more

Ms. Buckley is a senior account executive in the firm’s consulting group. She works on a wide range of projects in the areas of executive compensation, retirement plans, and group benefit services, as well as special projects. In group health and benefits, she assists clients in the design, implementation and servicing of group benefit programs. She evaluates alternative funding vehicles and provides administrative, technical, and compliance support for a wide range of benefit plans.

In the executive compensation area, Ms. Buckley assists clients with the administration and monitoring of executive compensation programs of all types. She also works on the design, modification and amendment of long term compensation plans, defined benefit retirement plans and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans. In addition, she assists with the implementation of Outsourcing Retirement Services. Please read more

Mr. Freedman, a senior consultant, is responsible for marketing of The Ross Companies’ services.

He consults on special projects and in group health and benefits -- the primary area of his expertise -- including life, medical, dental, disability and integrated benefits, as well as workers compensation programs. His client consulting has been concentrated among Fortune 100 companies along with public and private medium-to-larger firms. Please read more

Mr. Gundlach manages defined benefit services and outsourcing for the firm’s retirement plan services group, directing design, implementation, and administration of defined benefit plans and post-retirement medical plans. He also prepares ESOP emerging liability analyses. Please read more

Mr. Steinberg is a senior consultant in the firm’s business and estate planning group, designing and implementing life insurance, long-term care, and disability programs for businesses and key executives.

With more than 40 years of experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Steinberg has an extensive background in underwriting and risk evaluation. At The Ross Companies, he established the firm’s highly successful long-term care marketing program. Please read more

Mr. Burger is a senior consultant with The Ross Companies, providing strategic planning, consulting and advisory services to management.

During his 35-year career, Neil has held senior management positions at the Bank of America, Fitzmaurice Companies, the Aon Consulting Group, Alexander & Alexander, Coopers & Lybrand, and The Segal Company. He has also been retained for private consulting engagements by both public and private companies.

His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, organizational integration, management of professional staff and financial operations, business strategy development and implementation, Human Resources consulting, and the creation of original-concept technology and eCommerce businesses.

Mr. Burger has a Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University and a Law degree from Fordham University Law School. He is a member of the New York Bar and has a New York State real estate license.