Doug Hetherington, VP of Employee Benefits, Echelon Group
Doug Hetherington is VP of Employee Benefits with the Echelon Group in Boise, Idaho. Echelon provides a variety of services, ranging from individual insurance and asset management to employee benefits and retirement plans.
Paul Wilson: How did you get started in the benefits industry?
I always loved skiing and graduated with a degree in hospitality management. I moved to Sun Valley and realized I'd made a huge mistake, so I ended up being a headhunter for a few years. The dot-bomb hit, so I started gravitating away from software engineers and technical folks and working more with local businesses. My mom was a producer in the employee benefits business and a partner in a firm based in Twin Falls, Idaho, so I started doing some side work for them, looking for producers and account managers, and was recruited for the job myself in 2002.
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Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson is the editor-in-chief of BenefitsPRO Magazine and BenefitsPRO.com. He has covered the insurance industry for more than a decade, including stints at Retirement Advisor Magazine and ProducersWeb.
