Currently celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the Defined Contribution Institute is a private membership organization for the nation’s DC plan sponsors as well as supporting members from the industry’s leading asset management firms, providers, and consultants. The only group of its kind, the DC Institute was engendered by plan sponsors who called for a collegial membership of their peers; one in which leading asset management firms and DC providers could work together with those executives responsible for their company’s retirement plans to design solutions for the biggest challenges facing employees and retirees.

Built by plan sponsors for plan sponsors, the agenda for each DC Institute meeting draws heavily on an incomparable well of industry insight contributed by our plan sponsor and expert attendees. Each program addresses the issues most relevant to the nation’s plans through expert-led panel discussions and peer-led roundtable sessions as well as customized research.

We hope you'll join us for an event in 2020 as we enter this new decade of gold standard events for North America's DC Plans.

Tracy Brewer, Total Rewards Manager – Retirement Plans, Accenture

Bernie Knobbe, Vice President, Global Benefits, AECOM

Margaret Flynn, Pension & Post Retirement Investment Manager, American Water Works Company

Suzanne Carroll, Director, Treasury, Amgen

David Lewis, Director of Investments, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Paul Mele, Global Head of Benefits, BlackRock

Jamey Sharpe, Executive Director & Chief Investment Executive, BlueCross BlueShield Association

Sandy Blair, Director, CalSTRS

Lynna Soller, Benefits Manager, City of Chandler

Paulette Clark, HR Program Manager, County of Monterey

Johnny Liang, Senior Director, Compensation & Benefits, Dolby Laboratories

Paula Stafford, Finance Director, Global Defined Contribution, Dow Inc.

Anthony Tomich, Head of Pension Investments, Farmers Insurance Group

Colin Orr, Associate Director, Retirement Benefits, Genentech

Charles DeSantis, Associate Vice President and Chief Benefits Officer, Georgetown University

Terence Chan, Benefits, Finance & Analytics, Google

Patin Ma, Compensation Manager, Google

Edward Adams, Director – Global Defined Contribution Plans, IBM

Jason Naskiewicz, Americas Investment Manager, Mars Incorporated

Debra Roberts, Director of Finance, Maryland Supplemental Retirement Agency

Stephen McCaffrey, Senior Counsel for Plans, National Grid USA

Sue Rutherford, Retirement Plans Manager, Northwestern University

Ron Shaw, Financial Wellbeing & Retirement Manager, Paychex

Joanne Arneal, Director, MD Benefits, The Permanente Medical Group

Thomas Foster, Director, Pension & Trust Investments, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation

Jack Miller, Advisory Committee, Presbyterian Board of Pensions

Diane Kaiser, 401(k) Plan Manager, Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho​

Laura Booth, SVP, Total Rewards & People Insights, Tapestry | Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman

Craig Daniels, Director, Traditional Investments, Trinity Health

Carl Gagnon, Assistant Vice President, Global Retirement Programs, Unum Group