Mr. Rittenhouse has expertise in all areas of executive, independent director, and broad-based compensation consulting and extensive experience in compensation benchmarking, designing and implementing both short- and long-term incentive plans, creating salary structures, completing pay equity analyses, and M&A transaction related due diligence and integrations.

Mr. Rittenhouse has worked closely with Internal Revenue Code Section 409A, consulted on various aspects of 401(k) plans, and performed compliance reviews of both qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, and health and welfare plans. He is a subject matter expert in all areas of equity plan design, implementation, and administration, including cost modeling, systems implementation, accounting, reporting and tax.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Rittenhouse was a Managing Director with Compensation & Benefit Solutions, a leading provider of compensation and benefit services based out of Denver.

Previously, Mr. Rittenhouse served as the Head of Compensation for Vista Outdoor, a publicly traded company outside of Salt Lake City, where he oversaw the entire compensation function, including coordinating several M&A transactions, designing a compensation structure for approximately 50 unique consumer brands, and managing the equity administration department. Prior to that he worked in the federal tax group at Grant Thornton, LP.

Mr. Rittenhouse earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law, and an LLM in taxation from the University of Denver.