Kelly Karger

Senior Advisor, M&A Partners

Kelly Karger, FCA, FSA, CMAS is an independent Human Capital M&A consultant. She specializes in managing Human Capital activities during corporate transactions.

With more than 25 years of consulting experience, Kelly’s primary areas of concentration include:

Human Capital due diligence
Transition planning and separation/integration
Post-close implementation
Complex global deals including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, separation to standalone
Total rewards including employee benefits, and pension risk management
HR program management

Prior to starting her independent consulting firm, Kelly served as a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal, Willis Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, where her clients ranged from small manufacturing to large complex organizations across the healthcare, aerospace/defense, airline, hospitality, technology, energy and retail industries.

As a Senior Advisor to M&A Partners, Kelly serves as the lead HR Specialist for M&A Leadership Council. In this capacity, she shares her expertise with other M&A professionals and organizations involved in corporate growth, consolidation, restructuring and divestitures.

Kelly graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota, Duluth with a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics, was previously named a Risk & Insurance® Power Broker in Employee Benefits and is a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and Certified M&A Specialist.