C&A Benefits Group

Christina King, Founder and President

Christina has over 18 years of insurance experience, specializing in Employee Benefits. After working with some larger agencies in central Ohio, Christina founded C&A Benefits Group in early 2009 to better assist organizations. Soon after, she added C&A Business Services to provide payroll, human resource support and other services to make it easier for companies to operate more efficiently. In her elusive downtime,

Christina enjoys walks with C&A’s Chief Morale Officer and unwinding with a good book on a beach.

Jeff King COO/CFO

Jeff joined C&A in 2014 with over 30 years of experience in operational, legal and financial issues as a CPA and CFO. In his previous life, Jeff was an integral member of the NCT Ventures management team, co-founder of SubmitOrder.com and held several positions in finance and operations with Red Roof Inns and Digital Storage Inc. Jeff brings his extensive experience in big business and the venture capitalist world to small business owners, executives and entrepreneurs.

Jeff’s passions in life include baseball. He formerly set 4 Ohio State University records and later went to play in the Yankee organization. Jeff now gets his sports fix by playing golf at any opportunity.

Owner & Vice-President of Client Services

Jason King comes to C & A with over six years of professional selling and client relationsvexperience. Prior to that he was a professional baseball player in the Detroit Tigers System. He holds a degree in Marketing from Kansas State University and along with Cameron Briggs, is the second generation of the family owned business.

Jason is passionate about helping employers and
employees make responsible decisions in regards to their healthcare costs and plans.

John Trouten, Payroll & Billing Coordinator

John came to C&A with over 18 years of financial services experience with loans, collections and customer service. John works with Tracy and Cameron processing payrolls and billing. He believes in providing an excellent product to our clients and knows what it takes to provide the best services available. Currently, he is analyzing ways to create a better process for building payroll allocation reports to better serve our clients.

John enjoys spending time with his wife and their 2 children. He is involved in the Boy Scouts with his son and is an active Band Dad with his daughter.

Ty Cramer, Medicare and Individual Expert

Ty has 12 years of experience in the Medicare and individual markets. He excels at both personal one on one meetings and large setting seminars. In increasingly complicated areas of insurance, he breaks it down and makes it understandable. One of the most common things people say after meeting with Ty is “A big weight has been lifted, now I understand and know what to do”.

Ty has a master’s degree in teaching and lived abroad for over six years teaching at top science and tech universities. His passions are his wife and son and working with anti-human trafficking efforts.

Tracy Stamper, Accounting & Payroll Manager

Tracy brings over 20 years of experience in bookkeeping and office management to C&A’s payroll and accounting departments. She’s exceptionally organized, a great trainer and outstanding member of the C&A team! In her free time, Tracy enjoys hiking, camping and whitewater rafting in her home state of Utah.

She also is actively involved in raising her granddaughter.

Stacey George, Account Manager

Stacey joined C&A with over 25 years of administrative services and office management experience. She uses her exceptional communication skills and attention to detail to manage the day to day administration of clients’ benefit plans, claims inquiries and integration with payroll. Stacey enjoys spending time on her property with her horses, donkey and dogs.

She is a very busy mom of three boys and spends most of her time on the football and baseball fields.

Valerie has 10+ years of experience in benefits administration, human resources and payroll in various industries. She has a Bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and earned her Phr certification in 2018. Valerie’s experience has given her the ability to foster relationships with all levels of an organization, to keep the company compliant in federal and state regulations and maintain the day-to-day administration of benefits and payroll.

Valerie loves to travel with her husband, especially to Disney World.  She is also a huge fan of the Buckeyes, Browns and Blue Jackets!

Managing Partner, Recruiting Services

Laura has a broad range of global recruitment experience working with companies around the world, including UK, Europe, Middle East and African regions. She assists C&A clients of all sizes and sectors, by reinventing the way they attract and recruit talent in order to reduce costs, increase productivity and engagement, and ultimately attract high quality talent.

Laura enjoys traveling the world and renovating houses in her spare time.

Owner & Vice-President of Client Services

Anita joined the Company with 20+ years of experience in human resources consulting experience. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and has achieved the Senior Professional in Human Resources certification. She has worked for several Fortune 500 corporations and has partnered with a variety of business leaders (corporate executives, mid-managers and small business owners) as their human resources advisor. She understands the complexity of balancing business operations and people management and will help you navigate through those difficult decisions. She is service-focused and relationship-driven. She values trusting relationships with her business partners and will work diligently to honor that trust. Anita enjoys the art of crocheting, solving puzzles and domestic/international travel. She is a life-long fan of great mystery stories; such as those written by Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Jeff Leckrone, Benefits Consultant

Jeffrey is a Benefits Consultant that has successfully helped employers with strategies to meet ever changing trends and the rising cost of offering employee benefits for more than 20 years. He has navigated many satisfied clients through the C&A Benefits Group’s “One Source Solution”. – helping them reduce the time and labor costs associated with Benefits Administration, Payroll and HR Compliance through total integration. Additionally, Jeffrey helps clients with the insurance solutions for key person, buy-sell arrangements, business continuation, and other executive and family life insurance and disability income protection needs.
On the personal side, Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife and teenage son. Golf is a favorite activity and a former career.

Jeff still maintains status as a Member of the PGA of America and continues to provide golf instruction to individuals as time permits.

Paige Hurt, Account Coordinator

Paige is an Account Coordinator at C&A Benefits Group. Paige serves C&A’s client base by processing payroll and advising them through the annual open enrollment process. She is a recent graduate of Kenton Senior High School who is driven to achieve her professional goals in the employee benefits world.

In her free time Paige loves to set, pursue, and achieve goals related to her own personal growth. She also enjoys spending time with her close friends and nephew on the weekend.