Neil C. Krauter Sr.

Founder at The Krauter Group

Panelist

Neil Krauter is the Risk Strategies National Private Equity Practice Leader.

Before joining Risk Strategies, Neil founded Krauter & Company in 2004. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of AON in 1988, Executive Vice President in 1991, and later assumed the Vice Chairman role of AON New York in 1994. In addition to managing an elite team of over 100 mergers & acquisitions experts, Neil was AON’s leading specialist in providing services to the M&A industry with over 2,000 transactions to his credit.

He has held a number of board of director positions as well as serving on the Investment Committee of Reserve Capital Partners, the Advisory Board of Mountainside Hospital, Private Equity Risk Consulting, Arsenal Capital Partners, Private Equity CFO Association, Dukes Place Holdings, Winchester Advisors, and Breckenridge Insurance. In addition, he is the founder and CEO of the Private Equity Principal Group (PEPG), the industry resource to train the next generation of deal makers and partners.

After retiring from AON in 2000, Neil founded Krauter & Company. With headquarters in New York, the firm expanded across the country with offices in Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Avenel, Chicago, Naples, Los Angeles. In 2019 Krauter & Company merged with Risk Strategies to form and build a leading private equity specialty practice.

Today, the Risk Strategies Private Equity Practice has over 350 private equity firms as current and active clients.