Board of Directors and Staff
CCA Board of Directors
Rob Reiskytl, President
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.
Josh Shapiro, President-Elect
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.
Yi-Ling Lin, Immediate Past 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 Bacher, Treasurer
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.
Gail Steward, Secretary
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.
Mariah Becker, Vice President Communities
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.
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.
Justin N. Hornburg, Vice President Membership
Justin is a group insurance and employee benefits consulting actuary, primarily focused on large group life insurance and disability plans. In 2007 he started Justin Hornburg Consulting, and in 2010 joined American Benefits Consulting (ABC). In 2020, he re-started Justin Hornburg Consulting,
Margaret Berger
Margaret is a retirement actuary in Mercer’s Law and Policy group, a team of lawyers, actuaries and technical experts who analyze health, wealth and global legislative, regulatory, judicial and government relations issues. Margaret frequently speaks at professional conferences on legal and technical matters, as well as actuarial ethics.
Douglas J. Carey
Doug is a Director in the Human Capital Practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. His more than 35 years consulting experience includes working with large multinational clients on all aspects of their human resource issues with emphasis on global compensation and benefit plans.
William R. Hallmark
Bill is a Consulting Actuary for Cheiron with 30 years of experience consulting to pension plans. Prior to joining Cheiron in 2009, he was a Principal for Mercer. Bill consults to large public sector pension and retiree medical plans.
Cheryl A. Ham
Cheryl has more than 20 years of health and benefits actuarial consulting experience. Her 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.
James L. Jones
James Jones has more than 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.
Jessica Kachur
Jessica is a Partner and senior investment consultant in Mercer’s Wealth practice specializing in investments of Defined Benefit pension plans. She specializes in US corporate defined benefit plans helping clients manage risk, determine the optimal asset and liability strategies, monitoring and evaluating investment programs.
Jeremy P. Olszewski
Jeremy, chief retirement actuary within Fidelity Investment's Workplace Consulting, is involved in all areas of defined benefit pension plan actuarial consulting including performing valuations, analyzing plan designs, nondiscrimination testing and employee communications.
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.
David Scharf, Penultimate 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.
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