Board of Directors and Staff

CCA Board of Directors

Josh Shapiro

Josh Shapiro, President

Josh’s experience includes working with a wide range of organizations to ensure that their retirement programs meet their financial and human resources objectives while complying with the applicable laws and IRS, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), and Department of Labor regulations.

Justin Hornburg

Justin N. Hornburg, President-Elect

Justin is a group insurance and employee benefits consulting actuary, primarily focused on large group life insurance and disability plans. In 2007 he started Justin Hornburg Consulting, and in 2010 joined American Benefits Consulting (ABC). In 2020, he re-started Justin Hornburg Consulting,

Rob Reiskytl

Rob Reiskytl, Immediate Past President

Rob has 38 years of retirement and broader human resources consulting experience and consults on all aspects of retirement design, financial wellbeing, and benefit plan harmonization. He leads Aon’s thought leadership on Retirement Strategy and Design, working with organizations to develop defined benefit, defined contribution, retiree health, financial wellbeing, and phased retirement programs.

Rob Bacher

Rob Bacher, Treasurer

Rob is a total rewards professional passionate about making a company stronger through its people. He focuses on creating an exceptional employee experience that is engaging and supportive of the needs of employees and their families while ensuring competitive, cost-effective benefits and reward programs that attract, retain, and inspire employees to achieve a company’s mission.

Bill Hallmark

William R. Hallmark, Secretary

Bill is a Consulting Actuary for Cheiron with 30 years of experience consulting to pension plans. Prior to joining Cheiron in 2009, he was a Principal for Mercer. Bill consults to large public sector pension and retiree medical plans.

Mariah Becker

Mariah Becker, Vice President Communities

Mariah is the Director of Research and Education for the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans. In this role, she evaluates and designs policy & technical proposals to protect and strengthen the multiemployer system, as well as to develop analysis to evaluate the economic impact of federal policies, regulations and industry developments.

James Dolstad

James Dolstad, Vice President Continuing Education

Jim Dolstad is a Vice President in Optum’s Payer Actuarial team. In addition to traditional actuarial work, his expertise includes leveraging real world data, including social determinants of health, with machine learning and predictive analytics to assist clients improve clinical, operational, and financial performance.

Kenny Herbold

Kenneth J. Herbold, Vice President Membership

Kenny is the Director of Actuarial Services for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA). Previously, he was the staff actuary for the Texas Pension Review Board. He spent more than a decade providing actuarial and administrative consulting on defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans and post-retirement healthcare plans for private not-for-profit and for profit employers, governmental entities, hospital organizations, church plans and insurance companies.

Margaret Berger

Margaret Berger

Margaret is a retirement actuary in Mercer’s Law and Policy group, a team of lawyers, actuaries and technical experts who analyze health, wealth and global legislative, regulatory, judicial and government relations issues. Margaret frequently speaks at professional conferences on legal and technical matters, as well as actuarial ethics.

Douglas Carey

Douglas J. Carey

Doug is a Director in the Human Capital Practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. His more than 35 years consulting experience includes working with large multinational clients on all aspects of their human resource issues with emphasis on global compensation and benefit plans.

Lee Gold

Lee Gold

Lee Gold is a Senior Principal at Marsh and Defined Benefit Segment Leader for the Western US, bringing more than 35 years of employee benefits consulting experience. His expertise spans retirement, investments, financial wellness, plan design, and risk management. He is also an Enrolled Actuary.

James Jones

James L. Jones

James Jones has more than 25 years of consulting experience in advising multinational companies on people-related issues as they navigate complex, global M&A transactions. His areas of expertise are specifically within employee benefits, functional HR, employee change management and communications, and organizational design.

Jessica Kachur

Jessica Kachur

Jessica is a Partner and senior investment consultant in Mercer’s Wealth practice specializing in investments of Defined Benefit pension plans. She specializes in US corporate defined benefit plans helping clients manage risk, determine the optimal asset and liability strategies, monitoring and evaluating investment programs.

Adrienne Lieberthal

Adrienne Lieberthal

Adrienne Lieberthal is Founder and CEO of Athena Actuarial Consulting, specializing in retirement, healthcare, risk management, and financial consulting. She advises public and private organizations on actuarial valuations, financial modeling, pension strategy, benefit design, and enterprise risk management, bringing innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Jeremy Olszewski

Jeremy P. Olszewski

Jeremy, chief retirement actuary within Fidelity Investment's Workplace Consulting, is involved in all areas of defined benefit pension plan actuarial consulting including performing valuations, analyzing plan designs, nondiscrimination testing and employee communications.

Thomas Persichetti

Thomas E. Persichetti

Thomas has successfully worked with health care provider clients on risk evaluation and revenue management for 20+ years. His primary area of expertise is tailored for sophisticated clients that are seeking to preserve traditional revenue streams while maximizing investments in risk based revenue arrangements and upstream revenue opportunities.

Tim Stawicki

Tim Stawicki is a senior director of health and benefits in WTW’s Chicago office and has worked in the industry for nearly 20 years. He is the chief actuary and financial, actuarial, and analytics (FAA) lead for the North America Health and Benefits practice, overseeing a team driving the development of intellectual capital and delivery of quantitative expertise to clients.

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Gail Steward

Gail is a Managing Consultant with over 35 years of pension and retiree medical experience. She advises clients on pension funding issues, plan design issues and plan terminations. She also advises clients on all aspects of retiree medical plans.

Yi-Ling Lin, Penultimate President

Yi-Ling is a healthcare actuary and financial strategist. She is a pioneer in the development of sophisticated analytics that support organizations in navigating the new healthcare environment. In addition, Yi-Ling has over 20 years of experience advising clients on strategic planning, pricing and contract negotiations.

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CCA Staff

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Kelly Fanella, CAE

Executive Director

Matt Noncek

Associate Executive Director of Continuing Education

Rachael McLaughlin

Director of Marketing & Communications

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Shannon Peterson, MBA, CAE

Director of Membership and Communities

Kakoli Dutta

Membership and Education Coordinator

Samantha Feinglass

Executive Assistant

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Marie Shaw

Education Events and Special Projects Manager

Jim Uhlarik

Finance and Human Resources Manager

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