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Special Thanks to our Event & Major Sponsors

Amalgamated Bank

American Health Care

Armao LLP

Best Doctors, Inc.

BlueCross BlueShield Association/National Labor Office

Blue Wolf Capital Partners

Buck Consultants

Cigna

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

EmblemHealth

HearPO

Intercontinental Real Estate

JP Morgan Asset Management

Morgan Stanley

Pitta & Giblin LLP

Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin LLP

Pomerantz LLP

TD Bank

The Segal Company


Conference 2014 Exhibitors

Alkermes Amalgamated Bank

American Health Care Best Doctors, Inc.

BlueCross BlueShield Association/National Labor Office Buck Consultants

Catamaran Cigna

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC Delaware Valley Health Care Coalition

Delta Dental EmblemHealth

Envision Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Epic Hearing Health Care

Eplan HearPO

Labor First Laser Spine Institute

Legal Shield MagnaCare

Novartis Pomerantz

Premier Healthcare Exchange Retreat at Lancaster County

Scott & Scott LLP TD Bank

The Perecman Firm The Segal Company

Winston Benefits


The 37th Annual National Labor & Management Conference is a program of NLMC, Inc.

NLMC Certificate Series

The National Labor & Management Conference offers subject-specific certificates which may enhance your professional qualifications. These continuing education hours can be presented to your accrediting agency for credit (awarded at the discretion of the association).

Sessions marked with “1” required for Health & Welfare Certificate.

Sessions marked with “2” required for Pension Fund Certificate

Sessions marked with “3” required for Certificate in Labor/Management Strategies


37th Annual Conference, February 13-18, 2014

Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, Hollywood, Florida

Agenda 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

3:00–6:00 pm Conference Check-in & Registration; Exhibitor Set-up

5:30-7:30 pm An Evening Cocktail Reception in the Grand Ballroom Foyer Sponsored by Armao, LLP

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC Pitta & Giblin LLP Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin, LLC TD Bank

Friday, February 14, 2014 7:30-8:30 am Sunrise Breakfast Buffet in the Grand Ballroom East

Sponsored by Amalgamated Bank

8:20 am Opening Remarks (Grand Ballroom West)

Louis L. Levine, NLMC Chairman

William Raisch, NLMC Director

Welcome Remarks from Breakfast Sponsor: Gabe Caprio - President, Amalgamated Bank


8:45 am (3) Keynote Address: Walking the Line

Daniel J. Kane – International Secretary Treasurer, United Mine Workers of America,

AFL-CIO, CLC

Secretary-Treasurer Dan Kane offers perspectives on job growth and the challenges faced by Mine Workers, especially the “tightrope” the UMWA walks with respect to environmental issues.

9:15 am (3) Keynote: The Key to Reducing Income Inequality

Edwin Hill – International President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

(IBEW), AFL-CIO, CLC

The extreme stratification of American society into haves and have-nots has finally generated the widespread attention that such an urgent matter demands. As the nation grapples with possible solutions, the clearest answer is right in front of us. While measures such as stimulus spending, a rising minimum wage and the extension of long-term unemployment benefits will help, the key to reducing income equality is to empower labor and management to sit down together as partners not only to set wages and other compensation, but also to address issues of quality, safety and productivity that increase chances for success in the marketplace. This approach will serve our nation well as we address numerous issues such as energy development, creating good green jobs, infrastructure investment and the revitalization of American manufacturing.

9:45 am (2) Update from the PBGC

Josh Gotbaum - Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

This session will consider how retirement plans have changed since the passage of ERISA and what

changes might be possible in the future.

10:15 am (2) 2014 Economic and Market Overview: Stronger Growth, but Wages Stagnant for Now

Michael Hood – Global Markets Strategist, JP Morgan Chase

An overview of near-term and longer-run prospects for the U.S. economy, with a particular focus on

labor market dynamics, and commentary on the outlook for financial markets during the remainder

of 2014.

10:45 am (2) The Detroit Bankruptcy: Analysis and Implications

Mark Rifkin – Partner, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP

This discussion will provide a thought-provoking analysis of the legal and financial aspects of the Detroit bankruptcy, including a look at recent developments in the case and its implications for other state and local governments as well as other public pension funds.


11:15 am (3) Stopping the Tea Party!

Sarah Chamberlain – Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Republican

Main Street Partnership

The Main Street Partnership Super-PAC is aligned with the governing wing of the Republican Party and centrist policymakers and is growing support among labor unions for their anti-Tea Party agenda.

12:00 pm Lunch (at your own discretion)

2:00-5:00 pm Optional Small Group Breakouts and Meetings with Presenters

Saturday, February 15, 2014

7:30-8:30 am Sunrise Breakfast Buffet in the Grand Ballroom East Sponsored by American Health Care

8:30 am Welcome from Breakfast Sponsor: Lance Aizen – CEO, American Health Care 8:45 am (1) Keynote Address: Update on American Healthcare

Ardis Dee Hoven, MD - President, American Medical Association

9:15 am (1) Comments from the Medical Community

Ardis Dee Hoven, MD - President, American Medical Association

Louis L. Levine - Conference Chair, President, NY College of Podiatric Medicine

TBA

9:45 am (1) Affordable Care Act – It’s Here NOW

Bonnie Summers – Executive Director, BlueCross BlueShield Association/

National Labor Office

Mike Moran – Vice President, Cigna

Healthcare: The New World Order


Jim Gallic – Director, Health & Productivity, Buck Consulting

A look at Health Exchanges o Review the progress of public and private exchanges o Top 10 items to consider when exploring exchanges

o Present the specific legal ramifications and possible conflicts of ACA with Multi-

Employer Plans o Provide possible options for addressing the 30-hour rule

10:30 am (1) Trends in Healthcare

Dan Doyle, TelaDoc

As thirty (30) million more Americans enter the healthcare system, consumers will experience longer wait times and increased costs associated with seeking primary care. The use of telephone and video is being widely accepted to deliver routine primary care with prescriptions.

Lance Aizen – CEO, American Health Care

Jerry Gallo – Vice President of Sales, EmblemHealth

This session will focus on healthcare trends as they relate to new products utilizing narrow networks that can improve coordination of care to produce better patient outcomes and higher levels of satisfaction.

11:15 am (1) What Your Union Can Do About Spiraling Healthcare Costs: Studies in Cost Savings

Thomas Dolsak - Senior Vice President, Sales and Clients Services, Healthcare Strategies

Teamsters Case Study: How Population Health Management Enabled Significant Cost Savings

Steve Mogila – Partner, Chair of Employee Benefits Practice Group, Pitta & Giblin, LLP

Charles Gustafson – Vice President, Best Doctors

Charles Gustafson will discuss the significant issues related to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment and their impact on the lives of members as well as the health care spend of Plan Sponsors. He will share his own personal riveting tale that serves as verification of the need for a Clinical Advocacy Program to support members facing any level of medical uncertainty.

12:00 noon Introduction to Keynote

Mike Prohaska – Business Manager, Local 79, Laborers

12:05 pm (1) Keynote: Healthcare Update: LIUNA’s View

Terry O’Sullivan - General President, Laborer’s International Union of

North America (LIUNA)

The Labor Movement has fought long and hard to win good wages and benefits, including health care, for the proud men and women it collectively represents. From the very inception of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) and other


trade unions have voiced serious concerns about many aspects of the ACA, and have become outspoken critics of the law, calling for significant changes in the way it is being implemented. LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan will explain his union’s position, and talk about the problems the ACA has created for multi-employer, labor-management health and welfare funds.


Sunday, February 16, 2014 No Sessions – Enjoy Your Day Off!

Monday, February 17, 2014

7:30-8:30 am Sunrise Breakfast Buffet in the Grand Ballroom East

8:30 am (3) Immigration Reform 2014 Session A: Legislative Status

Yvette Pena-O’Sullivan – Legislative Assistant Director, LIUNA

Larry Bulman, Director of Political and Legislative Affairs – United Association of

Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United

States, Canada and Australia (UA)

Session B: On the Jobsite Steven Levine – Director, Labor Law Compliance, NYC School Construction Authority Yvette Pena-O’Sullivan – Legislative Assistant Director, LIUNA

Larry Bulman, Director of Political and Legislative Affairs – United Association of

Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United

States, Canada and Australia (UA)

9:30 am (1) ACA – What’s on the Trustees’ Agenda for 2014 and Beyond

Andrew Sherman – Senior Vice President & Benefits Consultant, The Segal Company

This discussion will focus on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what Multiemployer Trustees are likely to be discussing in 2014 and beyond. Specifically, the presentation will include the creation of exchanges/marketplaces, direct impact of ACA on multiemployer plans, opportunities to reexamine


retiree coverage, threats to Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs), delay of the Employer Shared Responsibility penalty and looming excise (Cadillac) tax on plans coming in 2018. This session will also address the continuing advantages of multiemployer plans with the ACA in place.

Frank Morris – Epstein Becker Green

Affordable Care Act – What Now?

The Delays and the Consequences

The Legislative and Judicial Landscape

Recent Regulatory Developments

Key Issues for Unions, Employers and Plans 10:15 am (2,3) The Corporate Governance Movement

Gabe Caprio – President, Amalgamated Bank

Employee benefit funds carry an incredible amount of influence in financial markets. This session will address how plan trustees and plan participants have an obligation and opportunity to achieve sustainable fund returns by ensuring that companies abide by strong corporate governance practices. Also discussed will be effective strategies to engage portfolio companies and how you can get involved.

10:45 am (2) Conversations in New and Creative Strategies in Private Equity

Michael Musuraca – Managing Director, Blue Wolf Capital Partners

While pension fund investment in private equity firms is now commonplace, how private equity firms look to create value continues to evolve. This presents additional opportunities for pension funds to partner with firms that create value in ways that better align with those of pension funds and their constituents. This session will illustrate a case study of a unionized hospital laundry company in Chicago, showing how prudent capital investment, active governance that insured the alignment of interests between owners and management, and settling issues like pension underfunding, workplace safety, and work rule changes through collective bargaining all served to both generate

returns for investors and create a more valuable and sustainable company.

11:15 am (1) Pay for Delay – How Companies Collude to Keep Generic Drugs from Coming to Market

Jayne Goldstein – Partner, Pomerantz

Learn how this behavior costs third party payers significant sums of money. Learn what third party payers can do to recoup their overcharges for brand drugs.

11:45 am (2,3) Message from the Trenches

José Jara – Principal, National Practice Leader Multiemployer Plans, Buck Consultants

Best Practices in Handling a DOL (EBSA) Investigation: o Outline the investigative process and discuss how plans are selected for

investigations


o Document production – DOL request, what to produce and how, managing service providers and their disclosures

o Fiduciary interviews – sample questions asked, how to prepare o Specific Type of DOL Initiatives: Fee transparency and the latest -- DOL may start

targeting plans that invest in Alternative Investments.

Sal Arma0 – Partner, Armao LLP

A review of some recent DOL practices: o Recently the DOL completed a program to audit training funds that are funded by

contributing employers in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement. They found that the training programs were spending their money on many questionable expenditures.

o The DOL also has a compliance program in place that reviews the work of CPAs who audit employee benefit plans to assure that the audits are done in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and that the plan’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. If the DOL finds deficiencies in the CPA’s work, the plan’s 5500 filing is in jeopardy and there are substantial penalties to be paid.


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

8:00-9:00 am Sunrise Breakfast Buffet in the Grand Ballroom East

***Special Note: Late Start to the Morning Program 9:00 am (2,3) Infrastructure Projects in America; Infrastructure Investment, Growth of Projects

Sonia Axter – Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments, ULLICO

This will provide a general assessment of infrastructure projects throughout the country, status of infrastructure investment as a trend and the future for these investments.


9:30 am (3) Minimum Wage: History and Current Movement

Arthur Cheliotis – President, CWA 1180

A short history of the minimum wage, its original goals and how the role of the minimum wage has changed through the years and the current movement to increase the minimum wage.

10:15 am (3) The Benefits of Community Benefit Agreements

Dave Wondolowski – Executive Secretary, Cleveland Building and

Construction Trades Council

This session will examine how these types of agreements are reshaping the way that the Building Trades and other Unions are organizing, expanding market share and creating new opportunities for work. These agreements, while not new, are becoming increasingly popular and being touted by local governments, community groups and Labor as a means to joining forces to pursue each of their

interests.

10:45 am(2) Pitfalls in Alternative Entity Investments: Lack of Fiduciary Duty Protections and Implications for Taft-Hartley Pension Funds

Michael J. Barry – Director, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A.

This presentation explores implications of investments in alternative entities, which by the end of 2012 comprised 25% ($650 billion) of pension fund assets. Investors are often unaware that their rights as investors in alternative entities may be substantially different from their rights as shareholders in corporations. Alternative entities often limit or eliminate the fiduciary duties typically owed by corporate boards, exposing investors to risks relating to conflicts of interest by the asset manager. This presentation will discuss examples of investors who have been left without recourse in the wake of egregious conduct, and provide practical advice by discussing examples of the language in operating agreements that should alert investors that they are signing away fiduciary duty protection.

12:00 pm Conference Adjourns


Welcome Reception Conveniently Hosted at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa

Thursday Evening Cocktail Reception 5:30 – 7:30 pm, February 13th in the Grand Ballroom Foyer

Sponsored by

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Conference Founder and Chairman LOUIS L. LEVINE served as Commissioner of Labor Affairs and as Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York from 1966 to 1976 under Governors Nelson Rockefeller, Malcolm Wilson and Hugh Carey. (Mr. Levine’s role in these administrations is especially notable, as both Govs. Rockefeller and Wilson brought sweeping change to the state’s infrastructure, i.e., The State University of New York). Mr. Levine began his long and distinguished career as the Director of Community Services of the AFL-CIO, working with legends of the Labor Movement Harry Van Arsdale (former head of the NYC Central Labor Council) and Michael Quill (founder of the Transport Workers Union of America). Additionally, Mr. Levine played a critical role in the Senate Labor Committee with Senator Jacob

Javits and Senator Williams that led to the development of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Mr. Levine has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and Foot Clinics of New York since 1991. He was Corporate Vice-President for Governmental and Public Affairs at Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield, one of New York’s leading not-for-profit healthcare insurance organizations, from 1980 to 1991. In March 1976, he became Chairman of the Executive Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Group Health, Incorporated, serving until 1979. Mr. Levine holds a Master of Arts degree in Industrial Sociology from New York University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and Psychology from City College, City University of New York and has received three honorary degrees, Doctors of Humane Letters, honoris causa. Additionally, Mr. Levine is a New York State Certified Social Worker.


Conference Director WILLIAM G. RAISCH has served as conference director for the National Labor and Management Conference since 1999, working closely with Conference Founder and Chairman Louis L. Levine since that time.

Bill seeks to serve as a catalyst in forming and forwarding collaborative efforts to address shared challenges. In his efforts, he seeks to convene key stakeholders to identify and better understand targeted problems, to develop consensus-based solutions and facilitate follow-on activity to implement and evolve potential collaborative solutions.

He serves as the founding Director of the International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP) at New York University, established with initial funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the world’s first academic research center dedicated to private sector risk

management and resilience.

His work at InterCEP focuses on real world impact with an emphasis on the development of actionable strategies and policies through active collaboration with key stakeholders and a holistic approach to risk management and resilience. The Center’s research activity focuses on achieving targeted objectives in uncertain environments with insights from the areas of risk management, strategic planning and innovation.

Mr. Raisch is actively engaged with the international business community and labor community as well as elements of various national governments and NGO’s globally. Mr. Raisch served as private sector preparedness advisor to the U.S. Federal 9-11 Commission and assisted in developing the Commission’s recommendations on private sector emergency preparedness. He has over 30 years of experience in the private sector spanning roles in both private and public corporations. His background includes roles in management consulting that spanned a diversity of industries, leading strategic planning for Smith Barney International and managing several start-up efforts addressing new business innovations and technologies.

Mr. Raisch currently serves as a Trustee of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. He recently served as a Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Chamber Foundation where he worked to champion collaborative multi-stakeholder initiatives. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Mr. Raisch received his B.A. (Government & Economics) and M.B.A. from Cornell University.


LANCE AIZEN is American Health Care's Chief Executive Officer and an entrepreneurial leader recognized for his expertise in pharmacy benefit management (PBM), disease management innovation and hospital 340B drug programs. As a thought leader in PBM and health care technology application, Mr. Aizen has conceptualized and designed distinctive and industry changing disease management programs, pharmacy benefit products and 340B federal drug program technology. Under his leadership, American Health Care has experienced significant growth, transforming into a nationally recognized leader in patient focused pharmacy benefits, health management programs and 340B hospital drug programs with expansion to 46 states from 7 in 2009 and to over 550

hospitals and health centers from 4 in 2009. Prior to American Health Care and as an owner and Chief Operating Officer of SUNRx, Inc., Mr. Aizen led the transformation of a startup PBM to a national leader in the industry's movement towards transparency, with SUNRx being recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. 500 and the Philadelphia Business Journal for two consecutive years under Mr. Aizen's leadership. Mr. Aizen also founded Pharmacy Software Technologies, Inc. a pharmacy benefit technologies services company and Pharmacy Pass, a company focused on consumer discounted health benefits. Other leadership positions included serving as a corporate officer of Rite Aid Corporation and Vice President of its PBM; EVP, Envision Pharmaceutical Services; US Corporate Controller, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, and; Managing Director, J&E Partners (investment bank) and CEO of a J&E Partners' portfolio company. Mr. Aizen spent the first six years of his career with the international consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He received his CPA license (inactive) in 1989 from the State of Pennsylvania and a BS Degree in Business and Finance from Drexel University in 1986.

SALVATORE J. ARMAO, Managing Partner and co-founder of Armao, LLP, CPAs, P.C., has been providing accounting, auditing and consulting services to labor unions and Taft-Hartley employee benefit plans for over twenty-five years.

While growing up as the son of a union official, Sal learned the importance of fair labor standards and the benefits labor unions provide for their members, including job security, retirement income and medical benefits. That experience has provided him with a unique perspective which he draws upon as a professional providing service to the labor union industry. Sal has authored and presented seminars on topics including Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal

Revenue Service (IRS) rules and regulations, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and government reporting, as they apply to labor unions and Taft-Hartley employee benefit plans. He is a member of numerous trade and professional associations, including the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP), the Business and Labor Coalition of New York (BALCONY), the National Institute of Pension Administrators (NIPA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), AICPA’s Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center (EBPAQC) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA).

Sal received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College.


SONIA AXTER is a Managing Director for Ullico Investment Advisors in its Infrastructure Investments group. Ms. Axter has 17 years’ experience in infrastructure development, principal ownership and project management. Prior to joining Ullico, Ms. Axter was a senior member of Deutsche Bank's alternatives investment group and performed both acquisitions and asset management of infrastructure assets. Ms. Axter was also formerly a senior member of Bechtel Enterprises, the infrastructure finance and development arm of Bechtel Group Inc. In her tenure at Bechtel, Ms. Axter led the redevelopment of one of the first public-private partnerships in the U.S., the $150 million light rail and real estate Cascade Station development in Portland, Oregon.

Prior to business school, Ms. Axter spent 7 years as a Project Manager and Project Engineer on a range of transport, utility and environmentally-impacted civil construction projects for the Pacific NW division of Granite Construction Company. Ms. Axter holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington.

MICHAEL BARRY is a director at Grant & Eisenhofer. His practice focuses on corporate governance and securities litigation. He also advises clients on SEC matters. As a foremost practitioner in these areas, Mr. Barry has been significantly involved in groundbreaking class action recoveries, corporate governance reforms and shareholders rights litigation.

Mr. Barry has been instrumental in landmark corporate governance cases, including AFSCME v. AIG, where the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recognized the right of shareholders to introduce proxy access proposals; Bebchuk v. CA, Inc., which opened the door for shareholders to introduce proposals restricting the ability of boards to enact poison pills; and CA, Inc. v. AFSCME, an historic 2008 decision of the Supreme Court of Delaware regarding the authority of shareholders to adopt corporate bylaws. Mr. Barry's case work also includes, among others, In re

Global Crossing Ltd. Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $450 million settlement; a well-publicized derivative litigation action challenging the terms of the Caremark Rx, Inc. and CVS merger that resulted in a $3.2 billion settlement; and litigation between the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which produced a $485 million settlement. Each of these cases resulted in substantial reforms to the terms of merger agreements to provide increased consideration and structural benefits to shareholders.

Mr. Barry has spoken widely on corporate governance and related matters. In addition to serving as a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard Law School, he speaks at numerous conferences each year. Mr. Barry has authored several published writings, including the Shareholder Activism Handbook, a comprehensive guide for shareholders regarding their legal rights as owners of corporations, which he co-authored.


LARRY S. BULMAN is the Director of Political and Legislative affairs for the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States, Canada and Australia. Previously, he served as Business Manager of Local 773, Glens Falls, NY and as NYS Pipe Trades Political Director.

Larry is a fourth generation UA member. His great-grandfather was a charter member of UA Local 773, initiated in 1919. Brother Bulman served as President of the Glens Falls Central Labor Council from 1998-2000.

His background also includes extensive political experience that prepared him well for his responsibilities at the UA. Larry was the first Democrat and youngest member elected to his town

council at age 27. He served on Hillary Clinton’s finance committee in 1999 and was her upstate coordinator during her successful senate race in 2000. Larry served as Saratoga County Democratic Committee Chairman from May 2001 – 2011. He was instrumental in convincing New York’s Junior Senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand to run for congress in 2006.

Larry splits his time between Annapolis, MD and his home in Saratoga, NY. He credits his wife Vicki and children, Taylor and James for allowing him to do the work he does on behalf of the 360,000 members of the United Association.

GABRIEL “GABE” CAPRIO serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Amalgamated Bank, the position he held from 1991 to 2006 prior to his retirement. Immediately prior to joining Amalgamated, Mr. Caprio served as Vice President of Finance for Oxford Research International Corp. Before that he was at Chase Manhattan Bank, where for nine years, he was responsible for expanding the bank’s operations and systems in South America, the Caribbean and Canada. Mr. Caprio has also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. During this period he served aboard ships in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean and was an advisor to a Vietnamese Navy River Assault Group in the Mekong Delta. His

last tour was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. where he prepared summaries of global situational events for the direct attention of Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford and their principal Deputies. Mr. Caprio is past Chairman of the New York Bankers Association and is Chairman Emeritus of the Bankers Advisory Board of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. He was a long time member of the Advisory Board of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City and is a past member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He also served as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of the NJIT School of Management, as a Director of the National Association on Drug Abuse Problems, the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York College of Podiatric Medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Queens. Mr. Caprio holds a B.A. from Seton Hall University and an MBA from New York University.

Mr. Caprio resides in Verona, New Jersey with his wife Jerilyn.


SARAH CHAMBERLAIN serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for the Main Street Partnership. Prior to serving as COO/CFO, Chamberlain was Executive Director of the John Quincy Adams Society and the Main Street Partnership.

Chamberlain is a graduate of the University of Delaware and received Masters degrees in Business Administration and Education from Elmira College in New York. She resides with her daughter in Virginia.

ARTHUR CHELIOTES, President of Local 1180, Communications Workers of America, since 1979, is an outspoken advocate for Civil Service, tax equity, and worker education. Local 1180 represents more than 8,000 administrative and supervisory employees in New York City mayoral agencies, the Health and Hospital Corporation, and the State court system as well as workers in the non-profit sector including Planned Parenthood, The Nation Institute, ASPCA, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First. Under his leadership, Local 1180 has worked aggressively to enforce civil service laws, including litigation that resulted in the promotion of the largest number of minority women to managerial positions through competitive examination in the City’s history.

He was one of the initiators of the Queens College Labor Studies program, now the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New York, and the long time Chairman of its Labor Advisory Board. Local 1180 strongly supports education through its generous tuition reimbursement benefits and educational programs. Arthur Cheliotes is a tireless defender of the public sector and the positive role of government. He is a Vice-Chair of the NYC Municipal Labor Committee and the chair of its Civil Service Committee. He is a member of the Executive Board of the New York City Central Labor Council. He and Local 1180 have been honored by the New York State AFL-CIO, the National Welfare Law Center, the Hunger Action Network, and many other organizations. He has been active in many community organizations in his home borough of Queens. He is a voice for labor’s values and for fairness and equality in New York City.

DAN DOYLE is the Vice President of the Public and Labor business segment at Teladoc. Teladoc is the nation’s first and largest telehealth provider and has been designated one of Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Healthcare by Fast Company. Dan has worked with, and for, many large healthcare organizations (BCBS, United Healthcare, Cigna and Aetna) to ensure that working men and women in America have access to quality and affordable healthcare benefits. Teladoc provides primary care consultations 24/7 with board certified physicians to more than nine (9) million members in the U.S. The focus of his 25-year-career has been on integrating technology with healthcare delivery to

improve member experience. Dan graduated Loyola University in Maryland and currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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JAMES “JIM” GALLIC is the Director of Health & Productivity for the Metro NY region for Buck Consultants. Jim advises, manages and oversees client strategies regarding benefit plan design, wellness initiatives, voluntary benefits and data analytics. He coordinates Buck’s Health Exchange carrier programs and other market facing programs. Jim has 10 years of Human Capital Management experience. His expertise includes health and welfare and human resources design, employee benefit administration and communication services. Jim’s contributed in the Major Accounts Leadership & Development practice for ADP. He serves as the Program Facilitator of Buck’s Emerging Leaders Initiative, and also represents

Buck Consultants as a Committee Chair of North East Business Group on Health, Worldwide Employee Benefits and other industry groups.

JERRY GALLO joined EmblemHealth in June 2010 as Director of Sales. He brought with him 17 years of experience in the health insurance industry, working for Oxford, MetLife and Cigna. During his career, Jerry has excelled in various positions ranging from individual production to sales management and has received several top sales awards.

As Vice President of Sales, Jerry is responsible for EmblemHealth's commercial Sales and Account Management statewide. He also manages relationships within the consultant and broker communities to deliver viable health care solutions to the labor market.

Jerry graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Finance from Pfeiffer University.

JAYNE ARNOLD GOLDSTEIN joined Pomerantz in March 2013 and is the resident partner in the Firm’s Weston, Florida office. She brings to Pomerantz her expertise in representing individuals, businesses, institutional investors and labor organizations in a variety of complex commercial litigation, including violations of federal and state antitrust and securities laws and unfair and deceptive trade practices. Ms. Goldstein was lead counsel in In re Sara Lee Securities Litigation, and has played a principal role in numerous other securities class actions that resulted in recoveries of over $100 million. She is currently serving as interim co-lead counsel for indirect purchasers in In re Androgel Antitrust Litigation (No. II) and In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation. Ms. Goldstein has served as class counsel in a wide variety of consumer class litigation, including Gemelas v The Dannon Company, which resulted in the largest

settlement ever against a food company. Ms. Goldstein began her legal career, in 1986, with a wide-ranging general practice firm in Philadelphia. In 2000, she was a founding shareholder of Mager & White, P.C. and opened its Florida office, where she concentrated her practice on securities, consumer and antitrust litigation. In 2002, the firm became Mager White & Goldstein, LLP. In 2005, Ms. Goldstein


was a founding partner of Mager & Goldstein LLP. Most recently, she was Senior Counsel at Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLP. Ms. Goldstein, a registered nurse, received her law degree from Temple University School of Law in 1986 and her Bachelor of Science (highest honors) from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. Ms. Goldstein is a member of the American Bar Association, the Broward Women's Lawyers Association, the Florida Public Pension Trustees Association, the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association, the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys. She was voted by her peers to be a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer every year from 2007 to the present. Ms. Goldstein is a contributor to a book published by the American Bar Association, The Road to Independence: 101 Women’s Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms. She resides in Weston, Florida with her family. She is active in community affairs and charitable work in Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Ms. Goldstein served as co-chair of P.L.I.’s 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and upcoming 2014 Class Action Litigation Strategies Conference held in New York. She has been a frequent speaker at Public Pension Fund Conferences having recently appeared on Panels at the Florida Public Pension Trustees’ Association and Illinois Public Pension Fund Association. She is admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the United States; the States of Florida, Illinois, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and numerous federal courts, including the United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Third and Eleventh Circuits. In addition to these courts and jurisdictions, Ms. Goldstein has worked on cases with local and co-counsel throughout the country and worldwide.

JOSH GOTBAUM is Director (CEO) of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. PBGC has about 2,400 people (including contractors), assets of some $85 billion, obligations of $119 billion, and guarantees pension benefits for more than 40 million people.

Director Gotbaum was appointed to the position by the President and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2010. Since then, Mr. Gotbaum has been a forceful advocate for preserving pension plans whenever possible and for other actions to strengthen retirement security. He has worked both within government and with the private sector to expand retirement options. He led PBGC's successful efforts to oppose American Airlines' plans to terminate its pensions, thereby preserving pension benefits for its 100,000+ employees. He also spearheaded efforts to strengthen PBGC's finances by reform of PBGC's premiums to encourage fairer rates. In 2012, Mr. Gotbaum

was honored by Institutional Investor magazine with its Outstanding Contribution Award for his work to preserve pension plans.

For more than three decades, Mr. Gotbaum has helped manage and advise public, private, and nonprofit institutions. From 2003-2005, he led and managed the successful reorganization of Hawaiian Airlines as its Chapter 11 trustee. When it emerged from Chapter 11, Hawaiian's creditors were repaid in full, most of its employees received raises, and its defined benefit pension plan remained in place. In 2001-2002, he was the first CEO of The September 11th Fund, a charity with over $500 million in assets whose grants helped more than 100,000 people and businesses affected by the attacks.

For more than a decade, Mr. Gotbaum was an investment banker with Lazard in New York and London. He advised businesses, unions and governments on a diverse range of mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, in steel, transportation,


and other industries. Most recently, he was an operating partner at Blue Wolf Capital, helping investors acquire, restructure, and manage businesses.

Mr. Gotbaum also has extensive experience in government. During the Clinton administration, he was confirmed by the Senate on a bipartisan basis three times, and served as Executive Associate Director and Controller in the Office of Management and Budget; Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy; and Assistant Secretary of Defense. During the administration of President Carter, he served in multiple positions on the White House staff and in the Department of Energy.

Prior to his current government service, Mr. Gotbaum was a director of TD Bank and Safety-Kleen, and a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for the Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Gotbaum holds degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law School, and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is married to Joyce Thornhill, a former banker, and is the father of 3 teenagers. In his spare time, he sings.

EDWIN D. HILL was appointed International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO on January 29, 2001, and later elected President at the IBEW’s 36th International Convention, and re-elected at the 37th International Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, in September of 2006. Mr. Hill assumed this position after serving the IBEW for over three and one half years as both International Secretary and International Secretary-Treasurer. President Hill also serves as a member of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Edwin D. Hill brings to his office over fifty one years of experience in serving the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in many areas of the union’s efforts. From his days as an apprentice in 1956, to his appointment and election as International President, Mr. Hill has

dedicated himself to the welfare of the members not only of the IBEW but of all working men and women. His concern for the financial stability of his union and the fiscal security of its members has led to his involvement as Trustee of the National Electrical Benefit Fund and as Secretary of the National Electrical Annuity Fund. Mr. Hill also serves as Trustee of both the IBEW Officers and Representatives and Office Employees Pension Plans. From 1982 to 1994 Edwin Hill held the office of IBEW Third District Office International Representative and from 1994 – 1997, as International Vice President for the Third District. While at Local Union 712, Ed was active on various committees, he was appointed and served as the first Registrar in 1961, President and co-founder of the Credit Union, founder of the Scholarship Fund, served as Vice President and President from 1964 – 1970, and from 1970 to 1982, Business Manager. Ed served as Vice President and COPE Chairman for the Beaver County Central Labor Council from 1972 to 1977, and held posts on the Beaver County Building Trades Council from 1970 to 1978, serving as Treasurer, Vice President and COPE Chairman. He has also held positions on the Executive Committee and the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO from 1976 until 1997. Mr. Hill’s sense of community responsibility can be measured by his involvement in countless community based activities including: The March of Dimes, the YMCA, the Executive Committee of the United Way, Beaver County Council for Economic Development and the Governor’s Committee for Economic Development serving as Chairman in 1995. In


addition, he sat on the Advisory Boards of Penn State and Geneva College and served on the Beaver County Medical Center’s Board of Directors from 1976 to 1996. Edwin Hill graduated from Freedom Area High School, Freedom, Pennsylvania. He completed courses at Penn State as well as completed labor courses, at the University of Indiana Pennsylvania and the George Meany Center for Labor Studies. Even with his demanding schedule, Ed still found a little time to enjoy some of his favorite pastimes over the years of golf, skiing, snowmobiling, racquetball and most recently riding his Harley.

MICHAEL HOOD is Global Markets Strategist within the institutional business at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this capacity, he provides analysis of and commentary on the economy and asset allocation to institutional investors of all types. He writes frequent “Global View” commentaries as well as stand-alone publications on economic and market topics. He also maintains forecasts for global growth, inflation, and policy interest rates, and contributes to the firm’s long-term capital markets assumptions process. He came to JP Morgan Asset Management in October 2011 from Traxis Partners, a USD1bn+ macro hedge fund based in New York. There, he served as chief economist from 2007 to 2011, maintaining detailed forecasts for global variables. He produced a monthly global outlook publication and frequent stand-alone pieces on a range of developed and emerging-market economic issues.

Previously, he worked as an economist and market strategist at Barclays Capital (within the emerging markets research department) and the JPMorgan investment bank (within the economic research department). At JPMorgan, he began, in 1994, as an economist for several Latin American countries. Later, he oversaw JPMorgan’s Latin American economic research effort and helped coordinate the department’s global views. He contributed to and helped edit many JPMorgan publications, including the weekly “Global Data Watch” and quarterly “World Financial Markets.” He also created and edited the quarterly “Latin American Economic Outlook” publication. At Barclays Capital, where he worked from 2004 to 2007, he worked on a combination of economic and market-strategy topics within emerging markets, again writing for and helping edit a variety of publications. While at JPMorgan and Barclays Capital, he frequently traveled to Latin America and spoke to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, corporations, and private equity sponsors.

He began his career in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he worked from 1992 to 1994 on a variety of international-finance and developing-country topics. In this capacity, he wrote many country-risk studies used by federal bank regulators.


ARDIS DEE HOVEN, MD, an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, KY, became the 168th president of the American Medical Association in June 2013. Dr. Hoven has been a member of the AMA Board of Trustees (BOT) since 2005, serving as its secretary for 2008-2009, chair for 2010-2011, and immediate past chair for 2011-2012. Prior to her election to the AMA-BOT, Dr. Hoven served as a member and chair of the AMA Council on Medical Service. She was a member of the Utilization Review and Accreditation Commission for six years and served on its executive committee. Additional activities have included service on the AMA Foundation board of directors, the Group Practice Advisory Council of the AMA and an appointment to the Practicing Physicians Advisory Commission. Currently Dr.

Hoven serves as the AMA-BOT representative on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Alliance Steering Committee. She has recently concluded service on the cola board, the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement”. Dr. Hoven’s involvement at the state level has been extensive. She was president of the Kentucky Medical Association from 1993 to 1994 and served as a delegate to the AMA from Kentucky prior to her election to the AMA-BOT. She has also been actively involved in medical staff issues at her local hospital and has held a variety of positions, including president of the medical staff, member of the board of directors and president of the hospital foundation board. Born in Cincinnati, Dr. Hoven received her undergraduate degree in microbiology and then her medical degree from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She completed her internal medicine and infectious disease training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease, Dr. Hoven is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Kentucky Medical Association Distinguished Service Award. In 2013, Dr. Hoven was named one of Modern Healthcare Magazine’s Top 25 Women in Healthcare. Dr. Hoven is married to Ron Sanders, PhD, an economist and college professor. They share a mutual enjoyment of two grandchildren, sports, travel and philanthropic activities.

JOSÉ M. JARA is a Principal and the National Practice Leader for Multiemployer Plans at Buck Consultants, LLC. In this role, he leads a nationwide team of dedicated and highly talented professionals in providing actuarial and consulting services to clients in the multiemployer arena. He develops strategy to be in the forefront in resolving issues critical to multiemployer pension plans and provides guidance to Boards of Trustees enabling them to fulfill their fiduciary obligations. José has 20 years of ERISA and employee benefits experience, ranging from class action litigation, governmental compliance, and fiduciary liability insurance, to the application of ERISA’s fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions. He avidly writes and presents on a myriad of ERISA and employee benefits issues.

José possesses extensive experience in resolving issues for multiemployer plans before the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). He began his career, when EBSA was known as the Pension and


Welfare Benefits Administration, as an investigator in the Office of Enforcement. He conducted complex civil investigations regarding pension and welfare plans and determined breaches of fiduciary duties. José was then promoted the DOL’s Office of Exemption Determinations, where he worked on prohibited transaction exemption applications and advisory opinions involving: 12b 1 fees, asset backed securities, foreign deposits, synthetic GICS, cross trades, sale and/or purchase of property, loans, and leases.

In addition, José serves the public by being a member of the Board of Directors of Leake & Watts Services, Inc. and the Center for Family Support, both of which are non-profit organizations which assist children with developmental disabilities. He shares his knowledge of labor and employment with both organizations by chairing their Human Resources Committees.

He received his B.S. in managerial science from Manhattan College, J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and LL.M. and employee benefits law certificate from the Georgetown University Law Center.

DANIEL J. KANE was sworn in as the United Mine Workers of America International Secretary Treasurer on August 20, 2004. Kane had previously served as International Executive Board member, representing UMWA District 2 since 1985. Born on May 15, 1949 to Paul L. and Grace M. Kane outside of the small mining town of Colver, Pa., Kane spent much of his time growing up around the home of his grandparents, Merle and Ruth Kane, who lived near Ebensburg, Pa. Merle Kane was a coal miner who worked in the nearby Bethlehem Corporation mines #32 and #33. Daniel Kane's great-uncle Alfred Kane was the first President of UMWA Local Union 850 in Revloc, Pa.

The oldest of 13 children, Kane graduated from Bishop Carroll High School in Ebensburg, then attended the University of Pittsburgh. In 1971, he went to work at the R.G. Johnson Company as a mine construction worker, classified as a drill runner and lead miner. While there, he was a member of UMWA Local Union 1634 and served as a project Safety Committee member. In 1975, Kane went to work at the BethEnergy Mine #33 (the same mine where his grandfather worked) as a shuttle car operator and rock loader operator. He also performed various other jobs, including motorman, roof bolter, lampman, dispatcher and rotary dump operator. As an active member of Local Union 1368 from 1975-1985 he was elected by his fellow union members to several Local Union offices, including Local Union President, Recording Secretary, COMPAC Committee, Election Teller and Delegate to several District and International Conventions. In 1985, the members of District 2 elected Kane to be their International Executive Board member, a position he held until becoming International Secretary Treasurer. While an IEB member, Kane negotiated scores of collective bargaining agreements with coal and non-coal employers, worked with the UMWA's Department of Occupational Health and Safety to reform Pennsylvania's mining laws, served as the COMPAC coordinator for the state of Pennsylvania and was the Union's lobbyist in Harrisburg. He was also the Selective Strike Coordinator for several selective strikes in both the anthracite and bituminous coalfields. In addition, Kane worked to organize workers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, served on the COMPAC Executive Council and was a member of the Standing Committee on the Constitution and By-Laws. In August, 2009, Kane was elected by acclamation to his second term as International Secretary-Treasurer.


Kane married the former Claudia Smith in 1970. They have three children: Aaron, Gretchen and Allison; and four grandchildren: Rileigh, Claudia, Bryn and Carter.

STEVEN R. LEVINE serves as Director of Labor Law Compliance at the New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) where he has been employed from the time that the SCA opened its doors in 1989. The SCA was created by the State legislature as a New York State public benefit corporation charged with building and modernizing New York City’s public school infrastructure. The agency is now functioning as a unit of the New York City Department of Education. Steve is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is immediate past Chairman and President of the New York City Chapter and Vice-President of the Long Island Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Steve is also on the Executive Board of the Society of Professional Investigators (SPI).

STEPHEN MOGILA is a partner at Pitta & Giblin LLP’s Employee Benefits Law Practice. Mr. Mogila has practiced as an attorney in all aspects of employee benefits issues, including establishment, design, administration and termination of pension, profit-sharing, welfare and executive compensation plans. He advises employers, plan sponsors and administrators on the full spectrum of plan investment issues and transactions, mergers and terminations, government audits, participant communications, fiduciary responsibility matters, minimum funding issues, withdrawal liability, and prohibited transactions issues. Mr. Mogila has worked extensively with both multiemployer and single employer pension,

defined contribution and welfare funds, and serves as fund counsel to numerous multiemployer funds, providing advice to trustees and administrators in connection with statutory and regulatory issues. He has assisted clients with issues related to the tax qualification of ERISA-covered plans, including the avoidance and correction of plan qualification defects, as well as ensuring their continued compliance. Prior to joining Pitta & Giblin LLP, Mr. Mogila served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Treasury Section of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General; and practiced for several years at Proskauer Rose in its Employee Benefits Practice Center. Mr. Mogila is a member of the bar in New Jersey and Maryland; and has passed the New York Bar (pending application). He has written extensively on the impacts of the Health Care Reform Law, co-authoring a law review article on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding law; and contributing to one of the industry’s leading guides to understanding and complying with this law. Mr. Mogila was recently recognized by the New Jersey Bar Association in its 2012 New Leaders of the Bar as one of New Jersey’s top 50 lawyers under the age of 40. He is a graduate of Seton Hall University; and earned a J.D. at the University of Baltimore School Of Law; and an LLM in Taxation at New York University School of Law.


MICHAEL MORAN is Cigna's Taft-Hartley & Federal Business Segment’s Vice President of Sales, based in Chicago and reporting directly to segment leader Kim Bimestefer. Mike leads Cigna's new business efforts and participates on the Senior Management Team developing and implementing the Segment’s strategic plan. Mike has a wealth of experience in the insurance industry, including an extensive background in working with Taft-Hartley and Federal Plans. In nearly two decades at First Health, he grew from Manager of National Accounts to Vice President of Sales, with wide-ranging responsibilities including account management, new business sales and sales and account management training. Mike was directly responsible for signing on a number of First Health’s largest clients, and was the leader of their Taft-Hartley segment. He also participated in the development of a sales forecasting

system, oversaw the hiring and training of new sales colleagues, worked on the integration of sales personnel and clients as the result of acquisitions, and developed sales department strategic plans. From First Health, Mike moved on to American Benefit Plan Administrators (ABPA), a third party administrator focused on the Taft-Hartley market, where he led the Business Development and Client Services areas. In this role, Mike worked closely with ABPA’s Account Executives on new business opportunities as well as on strategies for the renewal of a number of ABPA’s largest clients. As a member of ABPA’s Senior Management Team, Mike played a key role in the development of the organization’s business plan. Mike also led ABPA’s acquisition of a number of other third party administrators. Mike graduated from St. Vincent College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

FRANK C. MORRIS, JR., is a Member of Epstein Becker Green in the Litigation and Employee Benefits practices, heads the Labor and Employment practice in the Washington, DC, office, and chairs the firm's Disability Law Group.

After law school, Mr. Morris joined the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, DC, in the appellate branch of the Division of Enforcement Litigation, and handled cases in all of the United States Courts of Appeals, as well as NLRB Supreme Court matters. He later entered private practice in Washington, representing private and public employers in EEO, disability, labor, and general litigation matters. He also served as counsel for an employer's group, the Equal Employment Advisory Council.

Mr. Morris writes, speaks, and teaches regularly on various employment and litigation topics. He is regularly asked to share his trial experience in various ALI-ABA programs and in the annual Georgetown University Employment Law and Litigation Update. Mr. Morris has joined various Federal and state court judges on the faculty for a Georgetown-sponsored program "Litigating Employment Cases: Views from the Bench." He also co-chaired the ALI-ABA Video Law Review "How to Present and Challenge Experts: Persuading the Jury."

Mr. Morris is an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches Discrimination Law and has taught Employment Claims and Litigation. He also served as a faculty member of the Cornell University of New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations EEO Studies Program, as well as a frequent lecturer on equal employment, disabilities, and public accommodation law, benefits, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank and whistleblower issues,


affirmative action, family and medical leave, labor relations, ADR, and litigation topics for various associations, business, educational, and other groups.

Mr. Morris was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2013), Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2007 to 2012), Washington, DC, Super Lawyers (2007 and 2009 to 2012), and Washington DC & Baltimore's Top Rated Lawyers (2012).

MIKE MUSURACA is Managing Director of Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm, and Blue Wolf Capital Fund II, L.P. and Blue Wolf Capital Fund III, L.P., private equity funds, which specialize in control investments in middle-market companies in which managing relationships with government or labor, or resolving financial or operational distress, are critical to building value. Prior to joining Blue Wolf in February 2009, Mr. Musuraca was an Assistant Director in the Department of Research and Negotiations, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO. District Council 37 is one of the largest public-sector unions in New York City, representing 125,000 members who work for the City of New York, its covered organizations, and certain agencies of the State of New York. He worked for

District Council 37 from 1988 to 2009. From 1996-2009, Mr. Musuraca was a designated trustee to the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), a 300,000 plus member pension fund with assets of approximately $40 billion. He also served, from 1997 until 2009, as a trustee to the Cultural Institutions Retirement System (CIRS), a $1 billion fund with members from the major cultural institutions and day care facilities in the New York City metropolitan area. Mr. Musuraca was also a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Board, and was the labor representative to the Advisory Board of the New York City Independent Budget Office. He is currently serving on the board of the Shareholders Education Network (SEN) and Verite. Mr. Musuraca received a B.A. in Political Science from New York University, an M.A. in American History from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and a Master’s of Philosophy from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College (CUNY). He has also taught at City College (CUNY), Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University. Mike has published a number of papers on labor affairs and urban history and politics in academic journals.


TERRY O’SULLIVAN has been General President of LIUNA – the Laborers' International Union of North America – since January 1, 2000. He is known as an innovator among the newest generation of labor leaders dedicated to aggressive and sometimes radical approaches designed to increase the power of working people in the 21st Century. O'Sullivan has guided the more than 500,000 collective bargaining members of LIUNA to the forefront of the labor movement, reshaping the Union into one of the fastest-growing, most aggressive and progressive unions in North America. LIUNA members literally and figuratively build America with their work in

construction, hazardous waste remediation, state and municipal government, the Postal Service, health care, maintenance and food service. Since taking office, O'Sullivan has restructured and refined the union's goals, programs, and services. Under his leadership, the Union has adopted "organize or die" as its day-to-day motto, while at the same time increasing its commitment to member activism, capital strategies, grassroots politics, labor-management cooperation, apprenticeship, training and education. At LIUNA’s 2011 Convention, O’Sullivan led the charge for an unprecedented commitment to growing the union’s political strength with passage of a resolution that will significantly increase the union’s investment in politics, and position LIUNA’s PAC to rank in the top ten in the country. At LIUNA’s 2006 Convention, O’Sullivan also led delegates to a historic commitment for helping more workers join the union with the passage of resolutions that will raise more than $100 million a year for organizing – more than any construction union and more than virtually any union in North America. O'Sullivan is widely known as a fiery speaker who motivates and inspires his audience to action at rallies, conventions, meetings and other events. O’Sullivan has been an outspoken advocate for sound transportation policy on Capitol Hill, in TV and radio appearances, and as a contributor to publications, such as the National Journal’s Transportation Experts Blog and the Huffington Post. O’Sullivan is a long-time, vocal supporter and activist for Sinn Fein to secure peace, justice and a united Ireland. He is Executive Vice President of D.C. Friends of Ireland and President of New York Friends of Ireland. He is the former Chairman and CEO of ULLICO Inc., and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the insurance and financial services provider. He is also a member of the Governing Board of Presidents of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and a member of the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Working America, and is a member of the Management Committee of Americans for Transportation Mobility. In addition, O'Sullivan is a Board Member ex officio of La Fuente, he is the Chair Emeritus of the Bridge Builders and he sits on the Board of Directors for the Apollo Alliance and for the NCCMP (National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans).


Before becoming LIUNA General President, O'Sullivan served the Union as a Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager, and Assistant to the General President. He has also served as Administrator of the West Virginia Laborers' Training Center. A proud native of San Francisco, he joined LIUNA in 1974 and is a member of Local Union 1353, Charleston, West Virginia.

YVETTE PENA-O’SULLIVAN is the Assistant Director of Government Affairs for the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). Yvette joined LIUNA in May of 2013. She proudly represents the more than 500,000 men and women of LIUNA on Capitol Hill on issues ranging from transportation and energy infrastructure to immigration, health care and pensions.

Prior to coming to LIUNA, Yvette worked for the Blue Green Alliance from 2009-2013 as the organization’s Legislative Director and then Deputy Director. In a short time she established a strong presence on Capitol Hill and the Federal Government for the Blue Green Alliance on issues related to climate change, energy policy, quality jobs, transportation, and workers’ rights. Yvette worked closely day to day with BGA’s Labor and Environmental partners and was responsible for the overseeing of the development of BGA's policies.

From 2005-2009, Yvette was Legislative Representative for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, working on fair trade, immigration, clean trucks, and other issues related to workers’ rights for the Teamsters Union. From 2001 to 2005, Yvette was a Legislative Assistant for U.S. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut on issues related to taxes, trade, social security, and pensions. Yvette also worked as a Legislative Assistant, Press Secretary, and CHC liaison to U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes of Texas. She graduated from The University of Maryland School of Law in 1999. Yvette has testified before Congress on climate change and trade and labor rights. She has spoken to public audiences in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe on immigration, climate change, energy, and labor rights. Yvette sits on the Boards of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and also the International Labor Rights Fund.

MIKE PROHASKA, business manager of Construction and General Building Laborers’ Local 79, has been a member of the Laborers International Union of North America for nearly 35 years. Mike began his career as a rank-and-file laborer and has gone on to serve in numerous leadership roles in LiUNA. In 1995, during the historic consolidation and re-structuring of the Mason Tenders District Council and its affiliated unions, he was tapped by the International Union to be part of the next generation of leaders. Following his success with the 1995 asbestos and hazardous waste organizing campaign and the equally successful 1996 demolition workers’ campaign, Mike was appointed Director of Organizing for the newly chartered Construction & General Building Laborers' Local 79, the largest Laborer’s local in the country. He began his career as an elected

officer of the Local in 1996, serving in a number of different capacities over the years: sergeant-at-arms; vice president; recording secretary; and, lastly, business manager, the position he currently holds. In July 2000, Mike was elected an auditor of the Mason Tenders District Council and now serves as its secretary-treasurer. Mike is a firm believer that workers can advance in their careers only through education and training. To that end, he has attended the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute, and the National Labor College, formerly the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.


Mike is a life-long resident of the Bronx, where he lives today with his wife Brenda and their three children, Dusty Rose, Travis and Russell. Long active in the civic and sports life of the community, in 2007 Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion appointed Mike to serve as a member of Community Board 10, a position he still holds today.

MARK C. RIFKIN is a partner of Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP. An experienced securities class action and shareholder rights litigator, Mr. Rifkin has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of corporate fraud and abuse in federal and state litigation across the country. He currently serves as lead or co-lead counsel in many securities class actions in federal and state courts. Mr. Rifkin represents a number of institutional investors, including many public and Taft Hartley pension funds and private institutions, in representative and individual securities and shareholder litigation. Mr. Rifkin also is responsible for the firm’s ERISA litigation practice and is presently serving as lead or co-lead counsel in several ERISA cases.

Since 1990, Mr. Rifkin has served as lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or trial counsel in many class and derivative actions in securities, ERISA, antitrust, insurance, intellectual property, consumer and mass tort litigation through the country. The numerous securities class and derivative actions include First Eastern Corp. v. Mainwaring, et al., where class members recovered 93 percent of their losses. Mr. Rifkin has substantial trial experience as well. He was one of plaintiff’s trial counsel in Upp v. Mellon Bank, where the verdict awarded more than $60 million in damages to the class. Mr. Rifkin was co-lead and principal trial counsel in In re AST Research Securities Litigation, a class action that settled after six trial days for $12.5 million. He presently serves as the lead derivative counsel in the In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation in the Maryland District Court, arising out of the market timing and late trading scandal. Mr. Rifkin frequently lectures to business and professional organizations on a variety of securities, shareholder, and corporate governance matters. He is admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and before the United States Supreme Court and many other federal courts. He is rated AV, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell®, the country's foremost legal directory. Mr. Rifkin graduated from Princeton University in 1982 and from the Villanova University School of Law in 1985.


ANDREW SHERMAN joined The Segal Company in 1986. He became a Vice President in 1993 and a Senior Vice President in 1998. In 2000, Mr. Sherman was appointed Office Leader for the Boston office, and also manages Segal’s multiemployer and public sector consulting for Segal’s New England offices. He currently serves as the National Practice Leader for Segal’s health consulting in the multiemployer market, and was elected to The Segal Company’s Board of Directors in 2006. Mr. Sherman is a member of Segal’s Multiemployer Leadership Group and is involved in strategic planning initiatives for multiemployer services and product development.

Mr. Sherman provides consulting services to public and private health and pension benefit plans, and works with many corporations, universities, and non-profit entities as well as numerous collectively bargained health, pension, and annuity funds. Additionally, he consults to several large

public sector employee benefit plans and State Health Plans.

Mr. Sherman has vast experience consulting on health benefit plans and an array of work/life benefit plans, defined benefit, and defined contribution retirement plans. His consulting expertise includes total health management, prescription drugs, retiree health initiatives, Medicare Part D, plan design, and health care reform. Mr. Sherman has conducted the feasibility studies, cost analyses, and implementation of innovative employee benefit programs, including the extension of benefit programs to include employees’ domestic partners. He frequently offers guidance on the initial design and redesign of retiree health benefits and Total Health Management initiatives.

Mr. Sherman has been widely quoted in both the benefits press and general press, including the Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has written a number of articles on current employee benefit issues. Mr. Sherman has spoken on these issues across the country, at several universities, before the Massachusetts Bar Association, and has made presentations at numerous employee benefit seminars and national conferences. He has also testified before the Massachusetts State House and the Boston City Council. Mr. Sherman has served on the Board of Directors of the New England Benefits Council since 2000, and was President from 2008 to 2010.

BONNIE SUMMERS joined the BCBS Association National Labor Office as the Manager of the division and then in September 2004 was promoted to Executive Director. The National Labor Office is dedicated to the education and health care needs of organized labor. The BCBS Association currently provides health insurance for 93 million members and approximately 17% of this membership is affiliated with organized labor. Bonnie spends the majority of time presenting to labor constituents about economics and the key cost drivers of the American health care system. Before joining the National Labor Office, Summers was Vice President of Account Management for Magellan Behavioral Health, Health Plan Division. Summers has worked effectively with all Health Plan customers inclusive as the designee account executive for the

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association which services 78 million members throughout the country. She is responsible for the development of policies and procedures, protocols and training and acts as a primary resource to support strategies including tactics in retaining and up-selling business opportunities. Summers has over 20 years of experience in health care customer service, business development and sales and marketing. Her outstanding success rate is predicated on an effective and thorough customer service model.


Prior to joining Magellan, Summers was with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland (CareFirst). She graduated from Towson University in Baltimore with a bachelor's degree in business and an area of concentration in marketing. Bonnie is married and has three children and lives in Maryland.

DAVE WONDOLOWSKI is Executive Secretary of the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council and a lifelong resident of suburban Cleveland. He entered his apprenticeship with the Bricklayers Local 5 in 1993 in Cleveland where he became a journeyman brick and stone mason. Dave successfully ran for Local 5’s Executive Board in 2001. He became one of the Local’s youngest officers. In 2003 he successfully ran for Broadview Heights City Council and in 2006 he was appointed as a Business Representative for the Union. After winning 3 consecutive elections in Broadview Heights he decided to leave city council to focus more on his Union responsibilities.

In 2008, Dave had the privilege of being appointed to the Ohio Public Works Commission by then Ohio House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty. The volunteer commission is charged with oversight of public money spent primarily on infrastructure projects throughout the state. In March of 2009 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of the Ohio Administrative District Council of Bricklayers and Allied Crafts to represent all BAC Locals throughout the entire state of Ohio and over 80 counties in Kentucky. He also served as the organization’s Political Director and Lobbyist, as well as, trustee on both the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee and the Local 5 Pension Fund. Presently, Dave is a member of Cleveland’s Workforce Investment Board and the Vice President of the United Labor Agency.

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