Board of Directors and Staff
CCA Board of Directors
Yi-Ling Lin, 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.
Rob Reiskytl, President-Elect
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.
David Scharf, Immediate Past President
David Scharf, an Actuary and Principal with Buck, serves as the Wealth Practice Leader for Innovation, and Executive Benefits and M&A Centers of Excellence Leader. He has over 25 years of experience advising clients on their employee benefits programs.
Craig P. Rosenthal, Treasurer
Craig is a Partner in Mercer’s Wealth business that has spent most of his 30-year career providing strategic consulting advice to large/complex and multinational organizations. In this capacity, Craig provides consulting advice related to all aspects of retirement income / post-retirement benefit program management.
Josh Shapiro, Secretary
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.
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.
James L. Jones, Vice President Membership
James Jones has over 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.
Gail Steward, Vice President Communities
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.
Paul Angelo
Mr. Angelo is a Senior Vice President and Actuary in Segal’s San Francisco office. He has over 35 years of experience in the design, valuation and administration of large defined benefit plans, including corporate, governmental, Taft-Hartley and other collectively bargained plans.
Rob Bacher
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.
Mariah Becker
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.
Douglas J. Carey
Doug is a Director in the Human Capital Practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. His more than 35years consulting experience includes working with large multinational clients on all aspects of their human resource issues with emphasis on global compensation and benefit plans.
Derek N. Guyton
Derek N. Guyton has more than 40 years of health care benefits experience in the insurance, employee benefits and consulting field. He recently retired after 30 years as a Partner with Mercer’s Health & Benefits business in Chicago.
Cheryl A. Ham
I have over 20 years of health and benefits actuarial consulting experience. My experience includes strategy and plan design analysis, setting premium equivalent rates, reserve analysis, analyzing benefit plan costs and contribution setting for large and mid-sized employers.
Kenneth J. Herbold
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.
Jessica Kachur
Jessica Kachur is a Partner and senior investment consultant in Mercer’s Wealth practice specializing in investments of Defined Benefit pension plans. She has been a consultant for 19 years, all of which have been with Mercer. She specializes in US corporate defined benefit plans helping clients manage risk, determine the optimal asset and liability strategies, monitoring and evaluating investment programs.
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.
Tanya E. Sun
Tanya is a director at Sequoia Consulting Group. She has worked with a wide variety of clients including leading institutions in Southern California, automobile companies, consumer goods and retail and entertainment industries.
Elizabeth A. Wiley
Elizabeth Wiley is a consulting actuary for Cheiron with over 15 years of actuarial experience, primarily specializing in public pension plans. She began her career in Texas, working exclusively on public pension plans with a significant emphasis on local municipality plans for firefighters and police officers.
CCA Board of Directors' meeting minutes are available to CCA members upon request.
CCA Staff
Kelly Fanella, CAE
Executive Director
Matt Noncek
Associate Executive Director of Continuing Education
Rachael McLaughlin
Director of Marketing & Communications
Shannon Peterson, MBA, CAE
Director of Membership and Communities
Kakoli Dutta
Membership and Education Coordinator
Samantha Feinglass
Executive Assistant
Marie Shaw
Education Events and Special Projects Manager
Jim Uhlarik
Finance and Human Resources Manager