Meet The Team
Founder
Daniel McCauley
Daniel McCauley, Founder of Mac Consulting Group, has been working in and around the benefits world since he was a kid. He grew up in a family business that focused on helping employers be strategic on cost reductions, financial wellness, long-term care, recruiting
and retention.
Daniel is an Air Force veteran with a focus in Aerospace engineering that led him into the tech industry for almost a decade. He learned the power of macro and micro data analytics. This has allowed him to come back to the healthcare industry with a laser focus on what data matters, how does an employer get access to it and what can they do to use it to make smarter decisions on the quality and cost of healthcare.
He has consulted with over 2,500 organizations across the country from small businesses to Federal Government Departments. The organizations have heard him lead sessions on how to implement various solutions that focus on their ability to access their own data to navigate the healthcare industry. This has allowed these organizations to remove the "middle men" from their plans to reduce their overall healthcare spend.
Director of Medical Management
Deborah L. Ault, RN, MBA
Deborah Ault is the Founder and President of Ault International Medical Management (AIMM), the industry’s premier medical utilization management firm. AIMM is the only medical management firm to have its cost-savings results reviewed and validated by the prestigious Validation Institute.
Using evidence-based clinical practice standards, AIMM offers a complete care management package to manage employee healthcare to improve health care quality for patients so that claims costs of their self-funded health plan are well controlled. AIMM has its own team of physicians and on-site professional nurses, who ensure “best practices medicine” and respond to health-related issues.
A nationally respected expert in medical management, Ault pioneered the “proactive,” “day-one, dollar-one”, and “progressive patient-centric” models of medical management. She is the creator of the Patient Centric Comprehensive Care Management, or P3CM™ (patent pending), a proprietary platform for medical utilization management that uses evidence-based, best-in-class clinical criteria and standards.
A registered nurse for 30 years, Ault took her extensive nursing experience in ER, ICU, Doctor's Office, Home Health, and Telephone Triage with her into Care Management.
Her work has been published in industry publications and she is a sought-after speaker. Ault received her nursing degree from Marion Technical College, her Bachelor’s in Business/Math from The Ohio State University and her MBA from Concordia.
Director of Business Insurance
Derek Smith
Derek Smith started his insurance carrier working as a wholesaler in the Employee Benefits market. He spent several years as a Regional Director working with larger groups in the Life and Disability market. For the past 7 years Derek has been in brokerage as a consultant with Dixon Wells. His focus is working with brokers and consulting with their clients to position them with a comprehensive plan for risk management.
Derek is a Past President of the local NAIFA (National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors) chapter in Nashville, TN, where he has been a member for 5+ years. He currently working on obtaining his Series 6/63 licenses and will begin his professional designations in the coming year.
He enjoys spending his free time with his family (Wife – Lauren, Children – Lillie, Sarah Cate & Benton) and playing golf; along with being an active member in his church and community organizations.
Director of Regulatory Compliance
Jennifer S. Berman, JD, MBA
Jennifer Berman is CEO and co-founder of MZQ Consulting, LLC, a benefits compliance and ACA reporting firm. She is a nationally recognized Employee Benefits attorney specializing in ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, IRS Code, the ACA, and other wellness plan rules and statutes. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Berman has become an expert on health care reform developments and frequently serves as a speaker and commentator on a wide variety of health care reform and employee benefits issues, especially ones related to the Affordable Care Act.
Berman’s expertise and insights have been featured by a wide range of national media outlets, including the New York Post, NPR, Baltimore Sun, Newsweek, Yahoo Finance, and Washington Times.
She earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2014-2020, she was named a Maryland Rising Star in the area of Employee Benefits/ERISA by Super Lawyers. Berman earned her executive MBA at Loyola University Maryland in 2019.
Director of Global Benefits
Kishan Herriotts
Kishan Herriotts is Executive Director at Benefits Advisory Services, a consultancy based in the UK that advises U.S. corporations on the design of their overseas employee benefit programs. Client range from start-ups to large corporations.
As a Director at Willis and as a principle at two other prominent UK-based benefits firms, Kishan has been involved all his career in global employee benefits, with a focus on assisting U.S. multinationals with employees around the globe.
He founded Benefits Advisory Services in 2020 after selling his own benefits consulting group in 2018 to a top-10 U.S. brokerage. His firm, which provided benefits advice and implementation for international corporations but with a focus on Anglo-American issues, grew to employ over 30 people before he sold. During the 10 years he ran the firm, he grew revenue and EBITDA annually by over 30 percent.
During his time with Willis, he developed a formula for assisting emerging multinationals in all aspects of health and welfare benefits as well as retirement pension plans.
In addition to benefits, Kishan also can assist on company formation and local HR & payroll issues, as well as accessing property and casualty insurances around the globe.
His expertise extends to audit of existing programs as well as ongoing management and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. To date he has assisted clients in over 100 different countries where he can access local knowledge on benefits and Social Security provision.
His business travels regularly take him across the U.S. and to many other parts of the world. Kishan’s interests include spending time with his family, sailing his boat, and watching his racehorse run.
Director of Mindfulness
Naama O. Pozniak
A lifelong yogi, Primordial Sound Meditation coach, NFT artist, collector, author, and Founder/CEO of Paz Holding, Inc. dba RightPlan.com, Naama O. Pozniak brings a unique balance of proven mindfulness techniques and corporate wisdom to clients across industries. With the mind of a rock star, the heart of a healer, and the generosity of an avid volunteer, Naama’s programs inspire and educate from her 30+ years as a health insurance advisor, meditation teacher, and professional speaker.
A force within the healthcare and insurance industries, she is a market disruptor and influencer who has led meditation sessions with dozens of organizations over the past 10 years. Naama brings her wisdom for holistic wellness and lowering the cost of healthcare directly to industry stakeholders in the hybrid meta workforce environment.
Naama teaches timeless techniques proven to help reduce stress and instill a sense of peaceful well-being to family, friends, clients, students, and colleagues. In addition, she has proven that implementing an intelligent heart connection and 360-degree care will reduce stress, help you know yourself better, create happiness, and raise collective awareness.
Medical Consultant and Physician Advisor
Ronald S. Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH
As a highly credentialed and experienced physician executive, Dr. Leopold brings a breadth of knowledge as a consultant and client advocate. He is an industry thought leader in medical costs, employee benefits, and health and productivity. He works with employers using data analytics to help identify trends and identify medical cost solutions.
Dr. Leopold consults and advises benefits advisers and employers on:
Medical cost reduction and health risk mitigation strategies;
High cost medical claimant solutions;
Clinical and population health data analytics;
Employer health and productivity;
Global medical and employee benefits; and
Medical necessity and new medical technologies, including genetic testing and pharmacogenomics.
Dr. Leopold’s book on the future of employee benefits, The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits, has been described as a blueprint for benefits in the decade of healthcare reform. He also is the author of A Year in the Life of a Million American Workers, an almanac of absence data, and a frequent contributor to industry journals.
The former National Medical Director for MetLife, he also served as the Chief Medical Officer for Lockton Benefit Group and the National Practice Leader for Health Outcomes at Willis Towers Watson. Dr. Leopold received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University, his master’s in public health (MPH) from Boston University, and his MBA in Health Care from The Wharton School.
Director of Pharmacy
Trevor Daer
Trevor has spent his entire professional career in employee benefits, starting at one of the largest privately-held Third Party Administrators in 2009. After learning the ropes of self-insurance and risk-mitigation, he took over as the Director of Prescription Services in 2014 where he fueled the growth of a fledgling cost-plus mail order solution. During this time, he oversaw more than 100 PBM transitions from historically opaque and high-cost options to net-cost focused transparent pharmacy solutions. This experience and the positive results delivered to his customers (saving millions for plans and patients) led to a passion for helping educate others on the nuances that permeate today’s prescription benefit industry.
Trevor turned this passion into a pharmacy consulting business, Granite Peak Analytics, in 2019 and hasn’t looked back. Granite Peak Analytics currently provides pharmacy consulting for over 75,000 patient lives across the United States. His experience in self-insured health plans, community pharmacy, and mail-order operations provides a holistic view of pharmacy benefits, eliminating traditional silos that may reduce prescription costs, but increase medical spending or negatively impact patient care. Trevor is sought after speaker on the complex topic of pharmacy benefits along with a licensed producer and benefits consultant. In his spare time, he enjoys the Montana outdoors with his wife and four young children.