Rupa Athreya specializes in strategy, innovation and business development, with expertise in building and launching new businesses and products. She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at Income America, LLC, overseeing strategy, product, platform implementation and client relationship management. In addition, in her capacity as the founder of consulting firm High Note Advisory, she advises startups and new corporate ventures on a range of issues, including strategy, product development and delivery, market entry, business planning, customer segmentation and financial modeling.

Most recently, she served as global head of accelerators at the early-stage venture firm Techstars, overseeing over 50 incubator programs around the world. Prior experience includes leading product development at OppenheimerFunds, building and launching a range of investment products across asset classes and driving the firm’s strategy on sustainable investing, founding a robo-advisor at Bloomberg and serving as the head of product and strategy for the business, launching the Chase Private Client wealth management business in partnership with Chase Bank while leading strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, and strategy consulting at McKinsey.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

Kathie Barr is Independent Lead Trustee for the William Blair Funds, an Independent Trustee and Chair for Professionally Managed Portfolios Funds and an Independent Director and Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee for Muzinich BDC Funds. Ms. Barr is the former Chair of IDC Governing Council and a member of the ICI Board of Governors. Ms. Barr has over 35 years of experience in the financial services, asset management and capital markets industries and has been an independent director for 13 years. She was co-owner and President of the former Productive Capital Management and prior to that Sr. Managing Director, CAO and CCO for Allegiant Funds (predecessor to PNC Funds). Former licensure of FINRA 7, 24, 51, 53 and 63 and holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Cheri Belski is the Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Investment Management Solutions at LPL Financial (NASDAQ: LPLA) a leading retail investment advisory firm and the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer. In her role, Cheri sets the direction and strategy for key investment efforts for LPL, including Research, Investment Products, Strategic Partnerships, Annuities, Advisory Platforms, and Retirement Partners business. 

Cheri previously held multiple strategic leadership roles across operations, sales and distribution and global product during her more than 20-year career at T. Rowe Price. Her diverse background — spanning sales, product, client service, distribution, and operations — is pivotal in transforming LPL's investment portfolio and driving innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients, ensuring sustained growth and excellence in our offerings.

Cheri received her bachelor’s degree in political science and Latin American Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, her MBA in International Business from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and holds FINRA licenses 3, 6, 63, 7, 24, and 53.

Scott Buffington serves as Vice President and General Manager of Retirement Services at Paychex. In this capacity, Buffington leads all functions within the Retirement Services division including sales, service, product, and market strategy. He oversees more than 1,000 Paychex Retirement employees who each play a role in fulfilling the company’s purpose of helping businesses succeed. 

Buffington's distinguished career includes his tenure as Founder and CEO of 401kplans.com LLC, a pioneering digital marketplace utilized by many of the largest distributors of retirement plans. Following the acquisition of 401kplans.com LLC by Envestnet, Buffington was named Head of Sales for the Workplace Solutions Division. 

Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Buffington served as the Head of Sales for MassMutual Retirement Services, overseeing the industry's largest external sales force. Before joining MassMutual, Buffington spent more than a decade at Putnam Investments as a Senior Vice President, focusing on retirement plan and institutional sales. 

Recognized as a leader within the retirement services sector, Buffington is a sought-after expert and speaker at industry conferences. He resides in Naples, FL. 

As a longtime finance executive with over 25 years in workplace benefits, Anthony’s strategic solutions have led multiple initiatives to scale and acquisitions—from start-ups to Fortune 500’s.

He was most recently a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he led the firm’s Retirement and Deferred Compensation Solutions organization. Before that, he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs following the sale of his first fintech company, Honest Dollar, to the firm.

Michael Dembro is a lead strategist of investment solutions at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, he plays a key role in translating the challenges and opportunities facing advisors and intermediaries into insights and sales ideas and coordinating the curation and delivery of thought leadership, with the ultimate goal of creating product opportunities. Mike joined MFS in 2024 in his current role. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for nine years as a portfolio consultant at Natixis Global Asset Management and, most recently, for three years as chief investment officer at Professional Planning Group. Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Brandeis University. He also earned a Master of Science in Finance degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College

Rhonda Dixon-Gunner is Global Head of Transfer Agency at Invesco. In this role, supporting US and Canadian mutual funds, she is responsible for overseeing business process improvement, client transaction processing, client servicing, dealer servicing, project/vendor management, oversight and control, reporting and analytics, training, and Invesco Enterprise Services spanning four sites.

Ms. Dixon-Gunner joined Invesco in 2000. Prior to joining the firm, she was a vice president with OppenheimerFunds, where she held a variety of servicing and operational leadership roles, including an account management role for third party transfer agency relationships supporting PIMCO and Nuveen. Ms. Dixon-Gunner has been in the industry since 1982.

Ms. Dixon-Gunner earned a bachelor's degree from Regis University. She is a former board member of NICSA, an industry organization, and is currently a member of the ICI Operations Committee. She is also a member of the Invesco Women's Network (IWN) Governance Committee. She holds the Series 7, 24, and 99 registrations. 

Mr. Donovan joined Simon Quick Advisors, an $8 billion Registered Investment Advisor and Family Office headquartered in Morristown, NJ, in July 2017. Mr. Donovan graduated Cum Laude from Lehigh University in May of 2017 with a B.S. in Finance. He is currently a Vice President on the Client Advisory team. He oversees various client relationships, consisting mostly of high-net-worth individuals and families. Mr. Donovan is responsible for providing clients with financial planning advice and implementing and managing their investment portfolios. Connor completed the Financial Planning Certificate Program at New York University in December 2019 and became a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner in July 2020. Mr. Donovan is currently a member of the Financial Planning Association of New Jersey. 

John serves as Head of Fi360 and is also responsible for Product and Strategy for Broadridge's Data & Analytics business.  In addition, John founded and leads Broadridge’s Retirement Income Consortium.

 Prior to Broadridge, John spent over 14 years at Morningstar where he led global teams responsible for technology-based wealth and retirement plan advisor solutions.  Early in his career, John worked for Brinson Partners as portfolio administrator for large wealth and retirement accounts and served as an officer on a closed-end bond fund.
 
In addition to his industry experience, John has a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois, MS in Decision Sciences from the London School of Economics, MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and MSIT from Northwestern University.

Daniel is President of Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM), one of the world’s largest investment managers with approximately $1 trillion ofassets under management. NTAM has earned the confidence of global investors by providing sophisticated solutions that helps them confidently navigate all market environments – so they can realize their most important goals.

As NTAM president, Daniel is responsible for developing long-term business strategies, delivering best-in-class investment solutions and services for its clients, cultivating strategic relationships, and developing talented investment professionals. Daniel is also a member of Northern Trust Corporation’s Management Group in Chicago.

Daniel brings more than 25 years of investment management experience and a track record of successfully developing global business strategies, innovative investment solutions and diverse talent. He joined Northern Trust in 2023 from BlackRock, where he was co-head of fundamental equities and a member of the firm’s Global Operating, Portfolio Management Group Executive and Human Capital committees.

Joanne Kane is the Chief Compliance Officer for SS&C’s Global Investor and Distribution Solutions Division (GIDS), US.  Ms. Kane joined SS&C in May of 2023 and is responsible for the full range of compliance initiatives and issues related to 40’ Act mutual funds and SS&C’s asset management clients.

Ms. Kane has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, including extensive knowledge of transfer agency and compliance as well as various Securities and Exchange Commission regulations pertaining to asset managers. Prior to joining SS&C, Ms. Kane served as Chief Industry Operations Officer for the Investment Company Institute where she spent almost 10 years.  Earlier in her career, she held various senior positons including as Vice President of Transfer Agent Governance and Administration for Columbia Management Investors Services, Corp. and as Assistant Vice President of Transfer Agent Compliance with IXIS Asset Management Services. Ms. Kane graduated Magna Cum Laude from Providence College with a BS degree in finance. 

Jonathan Kingery is Head of US Wealth Management for Franklin Templeton. In this role, he is responsible for leading Franklin Templeton’s distribution efforts nationally for the US Wealth market, including Wirehouses, Regional and Independent Broker/Dealers, Registered Investment Advisors, Private Banks and Bank Trusts. Our US Wealth Management team proudly services over 600 billion in investable assets with Franklin Templeton and our Specialized Investment Managers . Our team works closely with investment committees and manager research analysts across the full spectrum of Franklin Templeton's investment and research capabilities. In addition, he serves on Franklin Templeton's Management Committee and is a Board Member for Fiduciary Trust Company International, a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton.

Mr. Kingery has over 20 years of experience in the financial services. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments in 2019, he spent 14 years at Lord, Abbett & Co., where he served in several roles, most recently leading the Institutional RIA Team. At Lord Abbett, Mr. Kingery served on the Client Services Leadership Institute, the Institutional Strategy Team and SMA Operating Committee.

Before joining Lord, Abbett & Co, Mr. Kingery served as a Vice President for Bisys Insurance Services and began his career in the financial services as a Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Planner.

Amy Lancellotta has more than 30 years of experience in the investment management industry.  From 1989 to 2006, Amy was a senior federal securities lawyer in the Investment Company Institute law department, before becoming managing director of the Independent Directors Council at ICI. Amy retired from ICI in 2019 and joined the Nuveen Funds Board as an independent trustee in 2021.

 Amy holds a B.A., with high distinction, from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the National Law Center of the George Washington University.

Mark A. Leary was the Chief Human Resource Officer at MFS for 16 years and a member of MFS’ executive management committee. He transitioned into a Senior Executive Advisory role in early 2024. He will remain in this role through Q1 2025, at which time he will be retiring from MFS.

During his tenure as a human resource executive, he was responsible for leading MFS’ global HR organisation, and the team responsible for global attraction, retention and development of employees globally. In addition, he and the team were responsible for providing strategic business partner support on a wide range of human capital issues to all MFS business units. This work has played an integral role in supporting, evolving and maintaining the organizations special and unique culture, which has contributed to the firms long standing success as was evidenced by
their milestone centennial celebration in 2024.

Prior to joining MFS in 1988, Mark worked at the Boston Company, State Street Bank and Trust and GTE Shareholder Services Inc. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Bentley University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Suffolk University.

Joseph Lo, Head of Enterprise Platforms at Broadridge, leads the firm’s platform and innovation initiatives. A technologist by trade with a background in software engineering, Joseph advances Broadridge’s global software platforms to accelerate transformation in corporate governance, capital markets, as well as wealth and investment management.

Joseph is a co-creator of BondGPT, the fixed income industry’s first generative AI platform that reduces hours of manual work into a matter of minutes, and unlocks trillions of dollars of liquidity in the process. He also holds a patent for a machine learning algorithm. Joseph leads Broadridge’s initiative to rapidly scale the use of generative AI capabilities internally and externally.

Joseph brings two decades of software and product development experience at financial technology companies to create innovative technology-based solutions to solve client challenges in financial services. He also serves as Broadridge’s Global Co-Chair of Lead for Next, an employee resource group where early career professionals can thrive professionally and build bridges across generational divides

Kevin Mahn is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Hennion & Walsh Asset Management. Mr. Mahn is responsible for the Wealth and Asset Management products and services offered at the Firm including the SmartTrust® platform of Unit Investment Trusts (UITs). Mr. Mahn also was the Portfolio Manager of the SmartGrowth® family of Mutual Funds.

Mr. Mahn is the author of the quarterly “CEF and ETF Insights” and "Market Outlook" newsletters as well as a co-author of the book, Exchange Traded Funds: Conceptual and Practical Investment Approaches, © 2009 Riskbooks. Articles written by Mr. Mahn have been published in The Journal of Investing and The Journal of Index Investing. Mr. Mahn is a contributor to Forbes, Talk Markets and Seeking Alpha.

Prior to Hennion & Walsh, Mr. Mahn was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers where he held several senior management positions, including CAO of the High Net Worth Product and Services group within Lehman’s Wealth and Asset Management division as well as COO of Lehman Brothers Bank.

Mr. Mahn received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Muhlenberg College and his M.B.A. in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). Mr. Mahn has also served as an adjunct professor at FDU within the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business. In 2015, Mr. Mahn received the "50 Under 50" award from the Silberman College of Business at FDU.

Mr. Mahn currently serves on the Board of Directors of NICSA and was formerly a Co-Chair of the NICSA UIT Industry Committee, winning the 2014 and 2016 NICSA MVP Awards for his accomplishments in that role. Kevin also won the Rising Stars of Mutual Funds Award from Institutional Investor in 2009.

Mr. Mahn has appeared in/on CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune, Forbes, New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, Reuters, Nasdaq and Yahoo! Finance.

Tyler Mathisen co-anchors CNBC's "Power Lunch" (M-F, 1PM-3PM ET) one of the network's longest running program franchises, as well as "Nightly Business Report," an award-winning evening business news program produced by CNBC for U.S. public television. In 2014, NBR was named best radio/TV show by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).

Previously, Mathisen was managing editor of "CNBC Business News," responsible for directing the network's daily content and coverage. He had been the co-anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell."

Mathisen has reported one-hour documentaries for the network including "Best Buy: The Big Box Fights Back," "Supermarkets Inc: Inside a $500 Billion Money Machine" and "Death: It's a Living." Mathisen was also host of the CNBC series "How I Made My Millions."

Before joining CNBC in 1997, Mathisen spent 15 years as a writer, senior editor and top editor for Money magazine. Among other duties, he supervised the magazine's mutual funds coverage, its annual investment forecast issue and its expansion into electronic journalism, for which it won the first-ever National Magazine Award for New Media in 1997.

In 1993, Mathisen won the American University-Investment Company Institute Award for Personal Finance Journalism for a televised series on "Caring for Aging Parents," which aired on ABC's "Good Morning America." Mathisen served as money editor of "GMA" from 1991 to 1997. He also won an Emmy Award for a report on the 1987 stock market crash that aired on New York's WCBS-TV.

A native of Arlington, Va., Mathisen graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia.

Follow Tyler Mathisen on Twitter @TylerMathisen.

Morris Morrison is obsessed with building Stronger, Kinder, Focused human beings. Along with his team at Windmill Park Media, Morris Morrison has become a world-class Entertainer, Futurist, Author and Entrepreneur whose journey began in New York City before a doctor’s words changed his life forever, after being orphaned a second time.  Morris Morrison has been the go-to voice that has impacted countless youth, college & university and major Fortune 50 events that range from Supply Chain & HR, to Sales, Marketing and Healthcare.  

After losing his parents in New York City and becoming orphaned a second time as a teen, early opportunities uncovered a unique brand of engagement that connects with all audiences and backgrounds, with an unforgettable message that sounds like a Hollywood movie script. Many of today’s world-leading organizations have partnered with Morris Morrison to build fearless, focused leaders that proactively drive uncomfortable change as they embrace a new future of work, dominated by automation and artificial intelligence.  

After receiving his education from Fairmont State University and the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University, Morris Morrison's business journey included critical leadership roles in Human Resources and Sales & Marketing, prior to exploring his dedicated path of entrepreneurship and culture building. Today, many global leaders have witnessed his message live on stage and in his latest book titled Disrupt Yourself. His message is powerful and his story is unforgettable, but his focus is clear — to bring families & teams closer and make organizations more impactful, through personal ownership, service and generosity.

Morris is best known for celebrating his biggest accomplishments off stage as a proud husband and father, with additional service to organizations including Fellowship of Christian Athletes , Big Brothers Big Sisters, the YMCA and many others. Morris is a proud brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the West Virginia University Alumni Association, and the board of advisors for the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University and the Chestnut Mountain Ranch home for boys.

Mr. Nelson has over 30 years of experience in the asset management industry with a focus on sales management and product distribution to the intermediary channels. Mr. Nelson founded Harborside Group in 2004, and the company has grown to become the largest and most comprehensive independent sales and marketing firm in the asset management industry. Harborside provides its services to asset managers with AUM typically in the $2-$50 billion range and services over 50,000 Advisor relationships who own its clients’ products.

Brian is also the President of Cromwell Investment Advisors, advisor to the Cromwell Funds and a member of Total Fund Solution, the industry’s most innovative multiple series trust that includes complete proactive distribution services. Mr. Nelson founded Total Fund Solution in 2022.

Mr. Nelson is a trustee of the University System of Maryland Foundation and Vanns Spices. Brian is also a founding member of Catalyst, an asset management industry focus group. Brian is a Certified Public Accountant with a BS and an MBA from the University of Maryland and maintains Series 24, 65, 63 and 7 licenses.

Judy brings over 30 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry with a focused concentration on Brokerage, Banking, Retirement, and Insurance. Judy has worked with many fortune 500 financial services companies providing expertise in strategy, business transformation, and revenue generation. The majority of her career was spent with Merrill Lynch where she led the Operations, Services and Technology Organization for US Private Client Businesses. Prior to joining SS&C, Judy served as the Head of the US Retirement Business for TCS Consultancy Services where she was responsible for bringing solutions and consultancy services to US Retirement market. Judy has also worked with organizations such as Lincoln Financial, PNC Bank, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price where she has led large organizational transformation initiatives.

John Oliva, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Asset Management Compliance. Mr. Oliva has over thirty (30) years industry experience in Senior Compliance roles including the Chief Compliance Officer ("CCO") of Highbridge Capital Management, LLC ("HCM") and the Global Head of Alternatives Compliance at J.P. Morgan Asset Management ("JPMAM"). Prior to joining HCM in February 2008, he was a Managing Director and the CCO of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. ("JPMIM") as well as several other of JPMorgan's registered investment advisers in the Americas. At JPM, he also served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Private Equity Compliance and at JPMorgan as the CCO for J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC ("JPMP") and One Equity Partners. Prior to joining JPMP, Mr. Oliva was a Managing Director and the head of Global Investment Banking Compliance at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Mr. Oliva began his career at Donaldson Lufkin Securities Corporation and UBS/PaineWebber where he held senior compliance management positions. He is a steering committee member of the Managed Funds Association (MFA) CCO Roundtable, a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Legal and Compliance Division, former senior member of the Bond Markets Association's Fixed Income Committee, former Hearing Board Member of the NYSE and a founding member of the Private Equity Compliance/Legal Roundtable.

Eric J. Pan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the leading association representing the global asset management industry with offices in Washington DC, Brussels, and London. ICI’s mission is to strengthen the foundation of the asset management industry for the ultimate benefit of the long-term individual investor.

Mr. Pan also chairs The International Investment Funds Association, the body of national and regional associations representing investment funds in all parts of the world.   

Mr. Pan previously served as the Director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and head of international regulatory policy at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He represented both market regulators in international standard-setting bodies, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Financial Stability Board (FSB), and in regulatory dialogues with European and Asian counterparts. He chaired several international committees and working groups. 

In addition to his government service, Mr. Pan was a Managing Director of Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC, a leading international economic advisory firm in Washington DC, and Director of the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance and professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York where he wrote extensively about financial regulation and corporate law. He began his career practicing corporate and international law with Covington & Burling in Washington DC.

Mr. Pan is an honors graduate of Harvard College, the University of Edinburgh, and the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School in New York where he also was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Law and Economic Studies. He serves on the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation. His opinion pieces in recent years have appeared in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Les Echos, South China Morning Post and Risk.net.

As Head of ISG Specialists, Brian leads a team of investment professionals who support Merrill Wealth Management advisors and Bank of America Private Bank to identify potential investment solutions to help meet clients’ financial needs. The team is comprised of the Portfolio Consulting Group, Investment Advisory Specialists, Alternative Investments Specialists, Capital Markets Specialists and Personal Retirement Specialists.

The team partners with advisors to help build and maintain long-term, well-diversified client portfolios – driving advisor understanding of the Chief Investment Office insights and solutions, supporting client acquisition and optimizing advisor practices. Brian also partners with third-party asset managers to help advisors meet clients’ investment needs.

Brian has worked with Merrill and Bank of America for 29 years, starting his career at Merrill as a member of the Global Private Client’s Financial Planning Group. Having worked with advisors throughout his career, Brian was a Regional Market Linked Investment Specialist working with advisors and clients. He has also held many leadership positions such as head of Investment Due Diligence for the Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) Chief Investment Office, head of Client Solutions for the Global Wealth & Retirement Services Markets Group as well as head of Sales for the Market-Linked Investment business.

Brian graduated from The College of New Jersey with a B.A. in finance and earned his MBA from Rutgers University.

As Managing Director, Head of Lifetime Income Default Distribution, Tim brings his knowledge and skills to plan sponsors and consultants as they design their retirement plans that seek to deliver the best possible outcomes for their plan participants. Driving innovation in the increasingly important default and QDIA space, Tim leads our custom default and QDIA strategies team. He works closely with consultants and plan sponsors to create default options unique to their plan that focus on generating lifetime income for participants. Tim and his team are also responsible for helping our clients and consultants understand the value of TIAA and CREF annuities and the importance of generating a lifetime of income – TIAA’s focus for over 100 years.

Prior to joining TIAA in 2013, Tim was an independent consultant providing consulting services to both institutional retirement plans and individual wealth
management clients. He gained valuable perspectives on the challenges facing plan sponsors and helped them with their fiduciary duties including: investment menu design, retirement committee formation and plan governance, employee education and fee alignment. He was recognized as one of PLANADVISER’s Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers in 2013 and was one of five finalists for PLANSPONSOR’s Retirement Plan Advisor of the Year in that same year.

Tim also spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments where he held a variety of roles ranging from client service to product development and sales. Tim led the product development for bundled defined benefit services and also drove the development and distribution of an early version of an outsourced CIO
business and led the national sales team. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Master of Science degree in finance from Clark University. He holds FINRA Series 7, 24 and 63 registrations. An energetic and engaging speaker, he is a frequent presenter at client and industry conferences throughout the country and has lectured at several New England colleges and universities. 

Beth serves as the US Leader of PwC’s Registered Funds practice. As part of this role, Beth has helped to solidify PwC as the prominent audit provider in the Registered Funds market working with our clients and teams to develop and conduct benchmarking surveys, webcasts and thought leadership on the rapidly growing space. In this role she has helped to author and speak on behalf of PwC on the Mutual Fund and ETF industry at PwC conferences and in PwC sponsored thought leadership.

Beth is an Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) partner serving a diverse set of clients in the Lead Client Partner role. She has over 20 years of experience in managing complex issues and risk through a balanced approach with multiple stakeholder groups including management, boards and regulators. She works with her clients and their Boards to tackle the changing financial services landscape.

Beth earned her B.S. in accounting from Fordham University's College of Business Administration where she was a member of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Team. She is a licensed CPA in the state of New York and a member of the AICPA.

Beth, her husband and three children live on Long Island, New York.

After 30 years of leading diverse, multicultural teams across financial services firms in Boston, Bangalore, and New York, I founded Tradewinds Career Consulting to help organizations unlock the power of purpose-driven leadership in their organizations, domestic and global.

During my last 12 years in corporate financial services, I focused on international leadership roles, managing global delivery, establishing new multi-national businesses and governance models, forging multi-national strategic partnerships, and contracting joint ventures.

I navigated my career by building high-performing teams, igniting shared vision and purpose to drive innovation, deliver exceptional customer stewardship, and solve complex global challenges. My greatest career satisfaction has been sharing my experience and expertise to help international teams and colleagues achieve global initiatives. Creating Tradewinds Career Consulting enables me to draw on my deep and varied expertise to deliver bespoke consulting, advisory services, and coaching, addressing precisely the skillsets our clients want to elevate.

With more than 25 years of financial services industry experience, Scott leads Cerulli’s research efforts focused on investor behavior and advisory relationships. In his time at Cerulli he has authored more than thirty in-depth reports on topics ranging from wholesale distribution to digital advice platforms. His research helps Cerulli’s clients understand how to optimize their platforms given the evolving demand for financial advice.

In recent years his research has been focused on helping client firms design and implement strategies that help their advisory teams feel empowered rather than endangered by the progression of digital engagement models.

Scott, who received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in Economics and his M.B.A. from Bryant University, started his career wearing a headset at Putnam Investments’ service center in 1996, before moving to more strategic roles at MFS Investment Management starting in 2000, and then to Cerulli in 2007.

Julie Stoeckel is a National Bank Examiner with the OCC working as an Asset Management Policy Risk Specialist. She has been with the OCC for over 25 years and specializes in Asset Management Governance, Operations, and Internal Controls. Prior to joining the OCC, Julie served in the role of Trust Department Operations Manager, and has continued to build on that knowledge as an Asset Management Examiner. Julie continues to expand her areas of expertise and is focusing on crypto‐custody and significant service provider oversight and risk management.

Christine Waldron is Head of Fund Services at BNY Mellon. Fund Services includes four core businesses within Asset Servicing, including Accounting, Alternatives, Exchange-Traded Funds and Investor Solutions.

Before joining BNY Mellon in 2023, Christine was Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for U.S. Bank covering their Wealth Management, Investment Services, Corporate and Institutional Banking products.   She was responsible for continuous improvement and transformation initiatives, strategic and technology planning, product development and business integration initiatives.  Christine also held a number of senior leadership positions at U.S. Bank, including interim Head of Global Fund Services, Global Head of Alternatives Investments, Head of Transfer Agent and Head of Client Experience overseeing Relationship Management, Mutual Fund Administration, Tax and Shared Services.  Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 1998, Christine worked for KPMG and began her career with a hedge fund manager. 

Christine is a graduate of Marquette University and a certified public accountant.  She also services on the board of the Student Partner Alliance of New Jersey, the board of Holy Trinity Blue and Gold Foundation and the advancement committee of Mount St. Mary Academy.