Compensation guidance built around the realities of family owned and privately held businesses
About Us
Benesh Consulting Group
Founded by Bruce Benesh, BCG focuses exclusively on single-family offices, family office-owned businesses, and privately held businesses. Over the last 40 years, Bruce Benesh and his team have provided professional compensation consulting services to more than 500 clients. Our expertise is highly specialized, and our scope includes all aspects of benchmarking of compensation throughout these companies.
BCG’s culture and team are built around providing exceptional consultation services to families and privately-held businesses. We have developed and designed hundreds of incentive plans, both annual performance bonus plans and simulated long-term incentive plans, for both domestic and global businesses. We have an extensive reach to include deep experience in working with families that are global and have multi-cultural offices.
We are clear leaders in the industry and have dedicated our consulting practice solely to families and privately-held companies that they invest in.
Bruce K. Benesh
Family Business & Expertise Advisor
With more than 40 years of experience in all facets of compensation arrangements, Bruce Benesh is one of the most experienced compensation advisors for family-owned and privately held businesses. His work ranges from strategic compensation planning to internal human resource consulting, with an emphasis on the tax efficiency of arrangements. Bruce has broad consulting experience in many industries with companies ranging from closely held family businesses and family offices to multi-national corporations.
Before starting BCG, Bruce was the national managing partner for Grant Thornton’s Human Capital Services and Family Business Practice. He was also the partner in charge of Arthur Andersen’s North American and Latin American Human Capital Practice and the Divisional President of a consulting practice for a publicly traded company.
"I don't like working in the family business sector, I love it. I love the industry. We work exclusively with family offices, family-owned operating companies, and privately-held businesses Board of Directors. We know these areas really well and are probably the most experienced firm in the family office sector. It's very humbling to work with these families, and it's really rewarding."
— Bruce K. Benesh
Deep Experience
- Strategic Compensation Planning
- Benefits Consulting
- Human Resource Advisory
- Competitive Compensation for Executives
- Qualified Pension Support
- Change of Control / Severance Agreements
- Stock Bonus Plans
- Fiduciary and Governance Compensation Planning
- Life Insurance Planning
- Welfare Benefit Plans
- Profit Sharing Strategies
- Nonqualified Executive Compensation Arrangements
Licensed
Permits to practice in Arkansas, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Memberships
Bruce is a member of both national and state organizations of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Published Articles
Bruce has been published in The Tax Adviser, Taxes, Small Business Taxation, Trusts and Estates, Tax Ideas, and journal of Accountancy.
Certified Public Accountant
CPA and a member of both national and state organizations of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and a Master's degree in Accountancy with an emphasis in taxation from the University of Oklahoma.
Subject Matter Expert
Bruce lectures frequently on executive compensation and family business planning.
