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Speakers Bureau

Our experts are available to both members and non-members as keynote speakers, panelists, or discussion moderators for live or virtual events. They can also provide expert legal testimony. Our experts regularly appear as speakers and moderators at industry events including P&I DC East/West, PLANSPONSOR National Conference and webinars, SPARK Institute, NAST, CFA Institute events, member client conferences, and more. They also frequently appear in videos/podcasts including Broadcast Retirement Network and member organization productions.


    Our experts can speak to topics including:

    • The current DC landscape -- players, policies, priorities 
    • Best practices in DC plan design 
    • The fee and litigation environment for plan sponsors
    • Recent academic research in the defined contribution and retirement space
    • Innovation and the future of defined contribution
    • Behavioral finance
    • Achieving and protecting retirement security
    • Expert legal testimony

    Our speakers' fees vary based on factors including DCIIA membership (which provides a discounted rate), intended audience, and any logistical factors such as travel. We typically will not charge plan sponsors who are seeking expert speakers for a meeting or an event.

    To learn more please contact us on info@dciia.org -- we look forward to hearing from you! -- The DCIIA Team


    Lew Minsky

    President & CEO
    DCIIA

    Lew is a recognized thought leader on retirement plan issues and is a regular speaker at industry events. He is often quoted in industry press and can provide expert testimony on retirement topics. Before helping launch DCIIA in 2010, Lew owned Minsky Consulting, through which he advised plan sponsors, service providers and fiduciary committees on governance, public policy and compliance issues. Earlier in his career, Lew served as the senior in-house counsel for a Fortune 200 company and worked as an attorney at major law firms. He began his legal career at the US Department of Commerce. Lew received a BSM from Tulane University, a JD from the University of Florida and a LLM with a certificate in employee benefits law from Georgetown University. Lew is based in South Florida.

    Warren Cormier

    Director Emeritus
    DCIIA Retirement Research Center

    Warren has previously served as CEO and co-founder of Boston Research Technologies and as president and founder of Boston Research Group. Warren is a veteran in the financial services industry with more than 25 years of experience in research for investment companies, banks and insurance companies. He is also recognized as a market research leader in the defined contribution industry. Warren is the cofounder of the Behavioral Finance Forum with Dr. Shlomo Benartzi and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

    Lisa Massena 

    Senior Advisor
    DCIIA

    Prior to joining DCIIA, Lisa established Massena Associates and served on the government savings team at Ascensus and was a research fellow with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She previously was executive director of OregonSaves, leading the launch of the nation’s first Automatic IRA program. Earlier in her career, Lisa co-founded a fee-based investment consulting firm serving defined contribution and defined benefit plans, foundations and endowments, and family office clients. She also has led investment analytics servicing for State Street Bank. She is a CFA Institute charterholder and president of the board of the CFA Society Portland. Massena is currently based in Oregon.

    Peg Knox 

    Senior Advisor
    DCIIA

    Prior to joining DCIIA, Peg was the global retirement plans manager at Bechtel Global Corporation, where she worked to generate and implement new ideas for Bechtel retirement plans to enhance retirement security for its employees. Previously she had served as Bechtel’s treasurer, where she ensured efficient global treasury operations including cash management and investments, debt and credit lines, foreign exchange services and other treasury functions. Peg has an MBA from Saint Mary’s College and is based in the San Francisco Bay area.

    Pam Hess

    Executive Director
    DCIIA Retirement Research Center

    Pam was previously with Aon Hewitt and served as their Director of Retirement Research for a number of years. In that role, Pam created and directed the retirement research efforts and was broadly quoted in the press. Earlier in her career Pam worked on the investment side at Aon Hewitt and with other firms in the financial services industry, including Smith Barney. Pam received a BS in finance from The University of Illinois, at Chicago. She earned her MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, with concentrations in accounting, finance and managerial & organizational behavior. Pam is also a CFA Charterholder since 2002. She is based in Charlotte, North Carolina