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Lee Conrad is a former senior editor of Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit Adviser, and a former editor of Bank Investment Consultant.

Leasha is a second generation financial advisor, and after graduating from Florida State University, began her career in the financial services industry as a financial advisor in 1995. She also earned the CFP ™ practitioner designation. Today, she is a successful owner of Flammio Financial Group, a Private Wealth Advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Her mission is to help clients accumulate, manage, and preserve their wealth. Since moving to Ameriprise, she has embraced the firm’s exclusive Confident Retirement® approach which incorporates all aspects of financial planning. Leasha’s clients span several generations and she engages them with all levels of client service, communication, networking, branding, and marketing.Away from the office, Leasha believes in giving back to her community by serving on several boards and committees as well as donating philanthropically to a number of causes. Her affiliations include the advisory board for the Scott Center for Autism Treatment at the Florida Institute of Technology, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, and a graduate of the Lead Brevard program.\n 

Leah Binder is president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group , a national nonprofit watchdog based in Washington, D.C., representing employer purchasers of health care and calling for improvements in the safety and quality of the nation’s hospitals. Her organization operates the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which collects and publicly reports information on hospital quality and safety, as well as the Hospital Safety Score, which assigns letter grades assessing the safety of general hospitals across the country.

Laurence Greenberg is President of Jefferson National, a developer of investment-only, variable annuities retirement products for financial advisers.

Lauren Boyman leads the digital strategy for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, the first major wirehouse to allow advisors to use social media in a compliant way.  She is responsible for client web and mobile, as well as advisor mobile and social media programs. Follow her on Twitter, @LBoymanMS.

Laura Morrison is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Exchange Traded Products at BATS Global Markets. In her role, Ms. Morrison oversees the company’s ETP listings business, developing strategy, working with issuers to list their products and overseeing market quality incentive programs. BATS is currently the largest U.S. market for the trading of exchange-traded funds (ETF).\nAn exchange industry veteran, Ms. Morrison joined BATS from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where she spent 20 years in leadership roles. In her last eight years at NYSE, she served as Senior Vice President, Global Index and Exchange-Traded Products, leading the team which managed ETF listings and trading as well as the NYSE index business. Ms. Morrison played a leading role in bringing new and innovative ETF products to market while launching key market quality programs and growing NYSE’s ETF issuer base to record numbers.\nPreviously at NYSE, Ms. Morrison held senior-level positions as Managing Director, Member Firm Sales, and Managing Director, NYSE Global Listings Group.\nMs. Morrison began her career at Barnett Bank in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and also spent two years working at the NYSE specialist unit, CMJ Partners L.P.\nMs. Morrison currently serves as a board member for Women in ETFs and the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Foundation Board.  She also served as a member of the Standard & Poor’s Index Committee.