Reflecting on the loss of Envestnet CEO Jud Bergman on Oct. 3, Bill Crager, president of Envestnet and head of Envestnet Wealth Solutions, who was named interim CEO after Bergman’s death, urged attendees at the MarketCounsel Summit Wednesday to not ignore a succession plan.
“I may be the 2019 poster child for succession, but it is essential … no matter how big or how small your business is, to make sure that you’re thinking about the risks that are lurking in your business,” Crager told attendees during a heartfelt discussion with MarketCounsel CEO Brian Hamburger.
Envestnet founder, Chairman and CEO Bergman, 62, and his wife, Mary Miller, 57, died Oct. 3 in a car crash in San Francisco.
Crager told attendees to not think “that it won’t happen to you … Again, we are promised in life there will be suffering and there will be tragedy; it will occur, and to prepare for it I think is essential.”