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Kevin Levitt is a Senior Vice President at comScore, Inc. and leads the company’s financial services practice. His team is responsible for consulting to Global Fortune 500 firms within the Financial Services industry. The team specializes in analyzing business intelligence and consumer research to drive more effective digital strategies related to clients’ online and moble acquisition, retention and servicing goals. Clients include leading retail banks, credit card issuers, brokerages, and insurance carriers. Additionally, the team manages comScore’s relationships with over 60 of the top equity research and investment banking firms on Wall Street.\nPrior to joining comScore, Kevin held various sales and marketing roles at two Internet ventures. Prior to these positions, Kevin worked for Octagon, part of The Interpublic Group of Companies, as a sports marketing consultant developing and implementing marketing programs for IBM and AT&T in support of their sponsorships of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.\nKevin holds a B.A. from American University in Washington, DC and an M.B.A. from the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Kevin Boyles is vice president of Ascensus, an independent retirement plan and college savings services provider. He holds the Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) and Certified IRA Professional (CIP) designations.

Kevin Keller is CEO of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board).

Boettner Professor; Professor of Business and Public Policy\n\n\nEDUCATION: 1995 Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University \n1992 M.A. Economics, Harvard University \n\n1990 B.S. Computer Science, Ohio State University \n\n1990 B.S. Economics, Ohio State University \n\n \nPublications \nKent Smetters, S. Nishiyama (2007), “Does Privatizing Social Security Increase Efficiency?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, (4): 1677 - 1720 \nKent Smetters, Jagadeesh Gokhale (2007), Do the Markets Care about the $2.4 Trillion U.S. Deficit?, Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 63, Number 2: 37 - 47 \n\n \nCurrent Research \nKent Smetters, Julia Li 2011, Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security \nKent Smetters, Walter Theseira 2011, A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions \nKent Smetters, Ying Chen 2009, Optimal Portfolio Choice over the Life Cycle with Social Security \nKent Smetters, Shinichi Nishiyama 2009, Richardian Equivalence Under Asymmetric Information \nKent Smetters, Walter Theseira 2009, A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions \n

Ken Nopar is a senior philanthropic advisor for the American Endowment Foundation donor-advised fund. Founded in 1993, AEF is one of the country’s leading independent DAF sponsors, working with donors and their tax, wealth and legal advisors in all 50 states.