David M. Neikrug

With 29 years of experience in the Employee Benefits sector, David Neikrug has a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by HR during an M&A transaction. Today, David advises executives and key stakeholders (employers, payors, vendors, investors) to identify and deliver value to the HR workstream.

Together with the investment community (PE/VC/Family Offices), David supports organizations throughout the entire M&A lifecycle ensuring sound due diligence, seamless integration, day-one readiness and post day-one synergy capture along the HR workstream. David understands ever changing deal dynamics and has been involved in integrations within and across industries such as hospitality, retail, manufacturing, consumer products, financial services and pharmaceuticals. He is well versed in the legal and regulatory environments which allows him to ensure his clients remain informed and compliant.

Following the acquisition of David’s prior firm by PE backed Capital H Group, David established Optimatum in 2007 to deliver the rigor of vendor management to the HR workstream. David is based in New York.