Learn how a better benefits strategy can reduce risk, improve retention, and make a meaningful impact on your bottom line with KPMG!
January 14th, 2026 | 10:00 AM PT
As your business grows, your employee benefits strategy plays a critical role in attracting talent, managing costs, and setting your company up for long-term sustainability. But many founders don’t realize just how much they're leaving on the table by not revisiting their HR and benefits setup as they scale.
The Nasdaq Center is proud to partner with KPMG for a session with Ryan McDonald, Partner for Global Rewards Services and Health & Welfare Leader, and Ethan Dellhime, Managing Director for Global Rewards Services and Health & Welfare, on how to make smarter, more cost-effective decisions about employee benefits—without sacrificing care or experience. Whether you’re currently using a PEO or managing your own plan in-house, this session will help you understand when and how to evolve your approach as your team expands.
What You’ll Learn:
- When it’s time to move beyond a PEO—and how much you could be saving.
- How to structure benefit offerings like fertility coverage, wellness programs, executive health, and pet insurance to meet employee needs and business goals.
- What KPMG’s Health & Welfare team offers—from brokerage services and wellness program design to strategic cost-reduction initiatives.
KPMG Health & Welfare
H&W Practice supports organizations to design and manage their employee benefits spend. We focus on cost-takeout strategies that do not cut benefits. We also support clients to explore wellbeing programs, fertility coverage, weight loss programs, executive health benefits, pet insurance, etc.
Key Service Offerings include:
- PEO Carve-out – KPMG uniquely positioned to support organizations across HR, Employment Tax, Technology, Benefits, etc. We see the economics breakdown around 75 employees in which an employer should start bringing benefits in house. Once you reach 200 or more, an employer may be leaving ~1M/ year on the table by utilizing a PEO.
- Ongoing Brokerage Services – KPMG acts as ongoing benefit consultant helping organization secure insurance, track claims and project future spend. Support wellness
- Project Based – Medical and Pharmacy RFP services for large national and multi-national organizations.
Meet our special guests
Ryan McDonald
Partner — Global Rewards Services — Health & Welfare Leader
Ryan is a Principal in the KPMG Global Reward Services practice assisting clients in addressing cost containment, financial analyses, benchmarking and developing multi-year strategies for their employee benefits plans. Ryan consults employers on a national basis, across industry and size, on strategies to make their employee benefit plans more efficient. Ryan’s areas of focus are actuarial services, supporting benefits within M&A, harmonization initiatives, cost mitigation, and creating market competitive plans.
Ryan is a certified health actuary, holding is Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries (FSA) as well as being a Member of the Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).
Ethan Dellhime
Managing Director — Global Rewards Services — Health & Welfare
Ethan Dellhime is a Managing Director in the KPMG Benefits Services LLC practice. He is an accomplished total rewards executive with 20 years of advisory and leadership experience, specializing in driving significant client value for private equity-backed, mid-market, and global enterprises.
Throughout his career, Ethan has held key leadership positions at a leading global professional services & insurance brokerage firm, where he provided executive oversight for global total rewards programs. He has a proven track record of creating substantial financial impact for clients through strategic advisory. His expertise includes U.S. and global benefits strategy, business transformation, and the development of advisory verticals, including leading the foundational build-out of a Private Equity value creation practice.
Ethan holds a Master of Health Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Seton Hall University. He is also an active community leader, serving on the advisory council for a major charitable foundation, the International Insurance Charitable Foundation (IICF), Western US Region.
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