Eric Graham along with Wes Montgomery founded Montgomery & Graham, Inc. in 1997 as a privately held corporation in Portland, Oregon.  It originally began when the two men left Mutual of Omaha Companies in order to focus their energies on employee benefit planning.  It has remained true to that focus, and has also developed into a dynamic sales organization with a growing sales force.  In November of 1998 the company purchased Bella-Anderson Insurance’s Book of Employee Benefit Business, and moved their offices to the Sylvan area of Portland.