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Release Date: April 9, 2008
Release Number: 08-461-NAT
Contact Name: Gloria Della/Richard Manning
Phone Number: 202.693.8666/202.693.4676
Washington – U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine
L. Chao today announced the appointment of five new members to and new
leadership for the 2008 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension
Benefit Plans, also known as the ERISA Advisory Council.
The 15-member council provides advice on policies and
regulations affecting employee benefit plans governed by the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Members are selected by the
secretary of labor and appointed for staggered three-year terms.
The new appointees and their council positions are:
David Evangelista of Stony Point, New York, representing the accounting
industry; Sanford Koeppel of Iselin, New Jersey, representing the
insurance industry; Mary Nell Billings of Memphis, Tennessee,
representing employers; Marc LeBlanc of Alexandria, Virginia,
representing employee organizations; and Kevin Wiggins of Clarksburg,
West Virginia, representing the general public.
David Evangelista CPA is a principal with MSPC
Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, where he manages and
supervises audits, reviews and compilations, and represents employee
benefit plan clients in the public and private sectors.
Sanford Koeppel is vice president of legislative and
regulatory affairs at Prudential Financial with responsibility for all
retirement security policy issues. Previously, he served as the lead
attorney of the firm’s legal department dealing with employee benefits
and the ERISA practice.
Mary Nell Billings is manager of retirement plans,
governance and strategic planning at FedEx Corp., where she is
responsible for governance, compliance, strategic design and employee
communications for all FedEx domestic qualified and nonqualified
retirement plans.
Marc LeBlanc, the fund administrator and general
counsel of the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund, oversees
the management of the investment portfolio, supervises service
providers, and directs compliance with reporting, disclosure and other
legal requirements.
Kevin Wiggins is an ERISA attorney at the law firm of
Jackson Kelly PLLC. He has represented employers and individual
beneficiaries in ERISA litigation, and has authored numerous articles on
retirement and health benefits under ERISA.
The 2008 council chair is William L. Scogland, a
senior partner at the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago.
Patricia Brambley, founder and president of Resources for Retirement in
Newtown, Pennsylvania, will serve as the council’s vice chair.
Additional information about the ERISA Advisory
Council is available at www.dol.gov/ebsa.
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