Rick Wedge – Investment Principal
Rick is Northgate Benefits' Investment Principal with NRP Financial and has been in the financial industry for more than 16 years, including several years with one of the 401k industry leading providers, Principal Financial. Most recently, Rick was that vendor's Vice President for the Northern California region, responsible for sales, marketing and administrative service for their 1,200+ retirement plan clients. The clients, both "for profit" and "not for profit" ranged in sizes from $1 million in plan assets to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rick is an Investment Advisor Representative and holds the Series 6, 63, 7, 26, and 66 Registrations. His expertise ranges from employee education and investment due diligence/asset allocation to vendor reviews /cost management and fiduciary liability management.
Northgate Benefits is an employee benefits company with a specialty in Qualified and Non Qualified retirement planning and a member company of National Retirement Partners. National Retirement Partners has been recognized by Plan Sponsor Magazine as a Best in Class.
Rick has a degree in Economics from Rollins College and an MBA from Babson College.
John Jakiemiec – Employee Benefits Practice Leader
John is the Employee Benefits Practice Leader for Northgate Benefits. He has over 19 years of in-depth experience with major insurance carriers and consulting in employee benefits. He has worked for Prudential Insurance in both their Boston and San Francisco offices. Most recently before joining Northgate, John was President of United Insurance Technologies.
Having been on both the wholesale and customer side of the business, John understands the inside of insurance companies and can make things happen for your organization. Insurance companies are extremely complex. John’s experience is an asset that our customers are able to leverage when dealing with these intricate organizations.
John and his team are customer driven. First and foremost is about saving our customers money. Secondly is ensuring that those savings do not come at the cost of a quality product and the excellent customer service that Northgate’s customers have come to expect.
John graduated from Dartmouth College in 1987.
Michael D. Warson – Managing Partner
Mike is the Managing Partner for Northgate Benefits and is responsible for the day to day management of the company. His has 20 years experience in managing organizations for both large Fortune 500 companies as well as small technology start-ups. This experience gives him a wealth of knowledge to draw upon when creating and managing the systems required for Northgate to provide the best possible service that our customers have grown to expect. Mike has worked for Gallo Wine Company, World Savings, and Critical Path in a variety of management capacities. Most recently he was Western Regional Manager for Cyber-Ark Software. He helped all of these organizations to achieve record results during his tenure at each company.
Mike graduated from Syracuse University in 1986 with a dual degree in Managerial Law and Marketing.
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