Benefits New York Show & Conference


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2010 Conference Hours:
Mon, Mar 1, 9am-4:50pm

2010 Free Showcase Hours:
Mon, Mar 1, 8:30am-4:50pm

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Speakers

2010 Health Care Benefits New York is the 6th Annual New York
conference and show for benefits and health care technology.

 


David Albertson
Editorial Director, Employee Benefit News and Conference Chair
Washington, DC

David Albertson is Editorial Director for SourceMedia's Employee Benefits Group. He has served Employee Benefit News since the magazine's inception in 1986, and in his current position since 1999. David is also responsible for editorial content of the sister magazines Employee Benefit Adviser, Employee Benefit News Canada, the Web site Benefitnews.com, and four e-newsletters. Among industry meetings, he serves as Chairman of his group's annual conference, Benefits Management Forum & Expo and numerous related one-day events. In his 25-year career, David has contributed to nearly two-dozen business publications in the fields of health care, employee benefits and finance.

Jennifer A. Borislow
Founder and Principal
Borislow Insurance

Jennifer A. Borislow is co-author of the book Bend the Healthcare Trend and the founder and principal of Borislow Insurance. She is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and Top of the Table. She is the 2009-2010 2nd Vice President of the MDRT and her term will culminate with her 2012 MDRT Presidency. She has been quoted and published nationally in Advisor Today, Round the Table, Business Week, the Boston Globe and Harvard Pilgrim’s annual report.

Kelley Butler
Editor-in-Chief, Employee Benefit News
Washington, DC

Kelley M. Butler is the Editor-in-Chief of Employee Benefit News, the leading trade publication for employee benefits professionals. She has more than 10 years of experience writing about health care, has worked with EBN for seven years, and has been Editor in Chief since 2006. EBN reaches more than 70,000 benefits stakeholders, with news and trend information that influences their decision-making on employee benefits for millions of the nation’s workers.

Mark S. Gaunya
Equity Partner and Principal
Borislow Insurance

Mark S. Gaunya is co-author of the book Bend the Healthcare Trend and an equity partner and Principal at Borislow Insurance. He previously worked for Tufts Health Plan in Massachusetts, Destiny Health and Cigna Healthcare in Chicago, CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield in Washington, DC, and Therapeutic Healthcare in Alexandria, VA. He is a member of the Million Dollar Round Table and Top of the Table, President of the Massachusetts Association of Health Underwriters and has been quoted and published in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Round the Table, Insurance News Net, Harvard Pilgrim’s annual report and the Boston Business Journal.

Ronald Leopold, M.D.
Vice President & National Medical Director, Institutional Business
MetLife

Ronald S. Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH, is Vice President and National Medical Director of MetLife US Business. Dr. Leopold is an industry thought leader for MetLife focusing on the future of work, health and benefits. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and is recognized for his entertaining style that blends thought-provoking industry insight with compelling illustrations and humor.

He is a Board Certified Occupational Medicine Physician who holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Public Health from Boston University.

In addition to publishing many articles on employee benefits, Dr. Leopold is the author of two books about benefits: The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits, a business book about the future of employee benefits, was published in June 2009, and A Year in the Life of a Million American Workers, an almanac of absence data that provides a comprehensive picture of one million American workers and their health conditions, illnesses and absence patterns over a one-year period, was published in 2003.

Evans Longacre
Senior Consultant
Fidelity Investments Consulting Services

Evans works with large organizations across a broad array of benefits management initiatives. In particular Evans focuses on redesigning retirement programs to meet compensation objectives and realize operational efficiencies. Additionally, Evans consults on employee education and wealth accumulation efforts such as total compensation and benefit statements and also assists clients in the development of other targeted communications and customized tools.

Evans has been a member of Fidelity Consulting Services for five years. Prior to joining Fidelity, Evans spent three years managing the pension programs for a Fortune 50 company, defining the strategic direction of the pension programs as well as managing all financial, compliance and governance related issues. Before this, Evans was an actuarial consultant with Deloitte, performing financial calculations and projections for client pension and defined contribution programs, and advising on plan design and administration.

Evans holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Christopher H. Mills
Partner, Attorney at Law
Fisher & Phillips LLP

Chris Mills is a partner in the New Jersey office. For more than 30 years he has assisted clients in navigating through the maze of labor and employment laws. Chris has a wide range of experience in employment litigation, employment discrimination, workforce reduction, employment-at-will and wrongful termination, traditional labor relations law, affirmative action plans and OFCCP, and employee pension and benefit plans. He has been selected to represent major corporations in class actions under ERISA and collective claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

He is currently lead counsel defending AT&T against a class action challenging the conversion of its Management Pension Plan to a cash balance formula, and he serves as chief collective bargaining negotiator for a number of employers. Chris has been recognized by his peers by being listed in The Best Lawyers in America, selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer, and elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Chris joined Fisher & Phillips after 12 years heading what was considered the premier labor and employment boutique law firm in New Jersey, which he joined in 1989. Previously, he had worked as in-house counsel at AT&T for 12 years, where he held a number of labor law positions, completing his service as the company's labor and employment law counsel for its corporate headquarters.

Cyndy Nayer
President
The Center for Health Value Innovation

Cyndy Nayer is a founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. The Center has grown into the nation’s premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs.

She is the co-author of the first book from the Center, Leveraging Health: improve health status and bend the financial trend with value-based design, published in 2009. In 2006 she published a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions, entitled 101 Life Tips for Personal Health Management, identifying the roadmap for becoming the CEO of one’s health-wealth portfolio, a concept she has copyrighted.

Mark Parabicoli
Managing Director, Auto & Home Voluntary Benefits
Liberty Mutual

Mark Parabicoli has been with Liberty Mutual for 18 years working in the Affinity Marketing and Claims arena. Mark’s current role in the Affinity Marketing department is securing and maintaining partnerships with employer groups in order to incorporate our auto and home products into members’ voluntary benefits programs offered to their employees.

Prior to transitioning in January 2009 to his current position, Mark was the Manager of Examining and Quality Assurance for the Claims Department. In this roll he managed a team that acted as technical consultants for the national Claims field operations for complex and high-exposure claims. His Examining team also monitored and managed large exposure litigated files, including class action lawsuits. Mark’s Quality Assurance teams monitored the quality of ongoing Claims work product so that a consistent product was delivered to our customers with superior quality service, while also remaining complaint with all state claims handling regulations.

Mark earned his Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts in 1990.

Barry Schilmeister
Partner
Mercer Health & Benefits

Barry is a Partner in Mercer's Health and Benefits business, working with both Mercer's Norwalk and New York consulting offices. He has been involved in insurance, benefits and actuarial work for over thirty years: over twenty years in group benefits consulting-the last sixteen with Mercer-preceded by twelve years as an insurance company actuary, primarily involved in health care programs.

Barry is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. As an actuary and senior consultant at Mercer, he advises large employers on the structure and financing of their group benefit programs. Projects cover the full range of benefits, active employees and retirees, insured and self-funded arrangements, managed care, single option and flexible benefits, traditional and non-traditional programs. Barry is the New York spokesperson for Mercer's National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, the largest survey of its kind.

Barry has been quoted in such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Crain's New York Business and Newsday on a variety of benefit-related issues. He has appeared on CNBC, Business Week TV, the NBC Nightly News and the Fox Business Network, discussing the cost of employer-sponsored health care and trends in active and retiree medical benefits.

Education: University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science.

Joan Smyth
Partner
Mercer Health & Benefits

Joan Smyth is a Partner in the New York office of Mercer Health & Benefits and is the office sales manager for New York City and Long Island.

Joan has over 20 years experience in the industry, working with mid-sized employers in the design and implementation of benefit programs. Her focus is on strategy, long term solutions and enhancement of overall benefit offerings, as well as cost control, and she is a frequent speaker at industry events. Before joining the firm in 1993, she was vice president at a regional brokerage firm, and was previously with The Equitable Life (now AXA). She also has experience in the interior design, fashion and electronics industries.

Joan graduated from The Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with honors in English Literature and Language.

Adam Stavisky
Senior Vice President
Fidelity Investments Consulting Services

Adam is a Senior Vice President in Consulting Services of Fidelity Investments. His current responsibilities include managing the East region for Fidelity’s Consulting practice. Adam provides strategic guidance to organizations on the design, funding and positioning of their benefits programs.

Adam joined Fidelity in November of 2004. Prior to joining, Adam was the Health and Group practice leader for Mercer’s Boston and Rochester markets. Prior to Mercer, Adam was the Health Management practice leader for Hewitt’s Philadelphia market.

Adam earned a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University and a MA in Mathematics from UCLA.

David Tinkelman, M.D.
Vice President of Health Initiatives
  and Medical Director for FitLogix and QuitLine programs

National Jewish Health

David Tinkelman is a physician, an executive and a researcher. Currently he serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Vice President of Health Initiatives at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado, a position he has held since 1995. During his tenure at National Jewish, Dr. Tinkelman created and served as the Medical Director of the Disease Management programs. These include the “Quit Line”, a smoking cessation telephonic and Internet program serving various United States markets and, most recently, FitLogix, a new multi-media weight management program with special capabilities for co morbidities, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Active in medical research and the author of over 135 journal publications and book chapters focusing on asthma, COPD and allergy, Dr. Tinkelman has more recently expanded his research to include socioeconomic issues in healthcare. He is a past president of the Joint Council of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology and a past Editor of the Journal of Asthma. He is the co-editor of four textbooks related to respiratory disease.

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