Sequoia helps businesses achieve their goals through smarter people spend. For 24 years, we’ve specialized in VC and PE-backed companies, guiding and administering their total compensation and benefits for their global workforce. With our always-on advisory, unified service model, and powerful platform, we give clients a complete view of their people spend, help reduce costs, protect their company, and win over the top talent they need for their mission.

About UBF Consulting UBF is a leading employee benefit and human resources consulting firm. We provide consulting solutions that manage risk, optimize talent, and transform organizations to become great places to work. The idea of UBF was borne out of a vision to represent the best interest of our clients and advise them on how to meet their human capital management needs through benefit and human resource strategies. What UBF Can Do for You Save Money UBF’s proprietary solutions optimize health plans with improved $0 deductible benefits, patient navigation to the best doctors and hospitals, pharmacy rebates, and near-site or on-site care. With a baseline savings that are often below current costs, our trends are more than half of typical industry trend. Save Time UBF’s solutions and employee benefit concierge service combine AI technology with a personal touch. Employees can elect to manage their plans through a mobile-ready application or they can call a UBF team member for personalized assistance. Expand Resources UBF provides in-house Human Resource solutions that are practical, focused on best-practices, and positions your organization to achieve success. A team of nationally recognized legal experts who ensure compliance in every facet of employment law also supports us. Create Great Places to Work UBF’s integrated benefits, population health and human resource solutions are geared toward helping companies create great places to work. Our programs and systems are evidence-based and help companies develop engagement, positivity, resilience, loyalty, and trust with their workforce. What Makes UBF Different Differentiator #1: We are a Health Rosetta Advisor As a Health Rosetta Advisor UBF helps organizations design and implement health benefits plans that are cost-effective, sustainable, and focused on improving the quality of care for employees. The Health Rosetta is a blueprint for health benefits that aims to address the inefficiencies and high costs of traditional healthcare systems. Health Rosetta Advisors use a set of principles and best practices to guide employers in transforming their health benefits strategies. These principles include: • Transparent and Accountable Healthcare • Aligned Incentives • Value-Based Purchasing • Employee Empowerment Differentiator 2: Proprietary Solution Set Most plan sponsors are stuck in the never-ending spiral of health plans that continue to deliver 5-8% annual increases. UBF’s solutions seek to end health insurance trend because they are configured to help members find the best possible care at the lowest possible cost. These solutions not only result in improved benefits but better healthcare outcomes. Differentiator 3: Master Level Consultants UBF consultants have worked for or represented Fortune 500 companies and well-known names like Mattel, Union Bank, and Bekins. These committed advisors are actively involved with both setting the strategy and seeing it through. And most importantly, our team is passionate about seeking solutions that serves the best interest of our clients.

Charton Financial Group strives to serve as a leading provider in the delivery of wealth management, risk management and employee benefit strategies. We define our role as advocates on behalf of affluent individuals, families and organizations who require highly specialized, comprehensively independent and integrated financial services. Charton Financial Group is proud to have served our clients for nearly four decades and in that time we are proud to have earned the reputation as qualified industry professionals. Our professionals share a singular focus centered entirely on advancing the interests of our clientele. We take great pride in the scope and depth of our organization which enables us to remain authentic to our mission, employ our guiding core values and pursue the greatest impact in support of our client objectives. As we partner with our clients to understand their specific needs, goals and visions, we leverage our independent business model to offer our clients holistic planning and access to a broad universe of robust experience, products and services. This client centric model empowers us to bring together dynamic innovation, preferred relationships, advanced resources and extensive decision and implementation support services. In that spirit, we aim to empower our clients to preserve what is important, inspire the creation, seek growth and preservation of assets, effectively manage risk and to help organizations advance their human and financial capital. We endeavor to bring our individual and corporate clients balanced strategies to help them prosper long term and Envision Optimized Returns In Life ®

Northgate Benefits has over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing and servicing employee benefit plans. We are an independent agent/broker not affiliated with any specific vendor products so we can work with employers and employees to help them find the best solution in the marketplace to fit their needs.

For 30 years, Johnson & Dugan's highest priority has been to make it easy for any company to expertly plan and administer employee benefits. Johnson & Dugan prides itself on consistently delivering and maintaining high standards of quality for each and every one of our clients. All of the companies we work with receive superior customer service, regardless of their size or the level of complexity of their employee benefits program.

Leavitt Group is a national insurance brokerage firm with offices across the nation, with Leavitt Pacific Insurance Brokers in the San Jose/Bay Area region. Leavitt Group is one of the top 15 largest insurance brokerage firms in the US, providing employee benefits, voluntary products, HR support services, wellness services, compliance, and other consulting services including Property/Casualty insurance. Leavitt Pacific has an M Score of 5, which is the highest M Score possible based on wide experience with business clients and positive customer feedback. Over 49,700 employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara Metro Area are providing group health insurance and employee benefits to their employees. Leavitt Pacific is a trusted advisor. With the ability to provide expertise in a wide range of industries, their team of experts can create a personalized benefit package that is tailored to meet your organization's needs.

Heffernan Insurance Brokers is an independent insurance agency big enough to compete with direct writers, but still small enough to provide boutique personal service. With a strong commitment to community, Heffernan gives back 22% of profit to charity. Being 100% employee-owned, we get to know you and your business because you’re different. With Heffernan Insurance Brokers, you can access your entire Employee Benefits Program, contacts, services and questions in one beautiful healthcare app! See reviews and co-pay costs, book appointments, track expenses, telehealth visits, deductible tracking and so much more! What makes us different: Employee centric service approach. Compliance and ERISA. Customized alternative funding options. Free BenAdmin System. Full vetting service for all HR needs. Annual reporting services. Fiduciary financial service team. Over 750 carrier partners for Work Comp and General Liability. True one stop servicing.

With decades of experience supporting businesses, families, and clients of all sizes throughout the West and across the country, our team combines the expertise of prominent agencies who provide services in industries including technology, manufacturing, construction, real estate, cannabis, social services, and risk management compliance. Together, we serve clients as trusted advisors to protect their employees, assets, manage costs, mitigate risk, and achieve financial security. Designing creative and unique insurance and employee benefit solutions to create the greatest value for our clients is the mission that we dedicate ourselves to every day. Because of this relentless drive we are one of the largest insurance agencies on the West Coast and have partnered with some of the most dynamic companies on the most crucial aspects of business risk management and employee benefits.

The Bachan Group (TBG) is a NextGen Health Insurance Agency working with businesses throughout the Central Coast. Though our strategies are highly innovative, they’re built upon our old-school values and strong work ethic. TBG’s insurance roots stretch back to 1913 and the benefits team has over 100 years of combined experience that we are eager to put to work for you. OUR THREE UNIQUES 1. We focus on Self-funded benefits 2. We teach companies how to help their employees purchase their healthcare needs at a lower price 3. We show companies how to improve their profitability using their health insurance plan