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SYRACUSE - The name of a Syracuse-based environmental risk-management firm, Synapse Partners, LLC, resulted from successful early conversations between the company's managing partners prior to its establishment in 2003.
One definition of the word synapse is: "to join together."
During a six-hour meeting in Syracuse in 2003, Eckardt C. (Chris) Beek, Vita DeMarchi, and Brian Macrae joined together to discuss creating a risk-management company focusing on environmental risks.
"You could really see the synergy in the first meeting," Macrae says.
Following the meeting Eckardt and DeMarchi established Synapse, a family of three limited liability companies including Synapse Partners, LLC, Synapse Risk Management, LLC, and Synapse Services, LLC. The Central New York Business Journal estimates the combined, 11-employee firm generates more than $5 million in revenue annually.
Synapse works with insurance carriers including ACE Environmental Risk, and AIG Environmental to assist commercial businesses, environmental firms, financial institutions, and...