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Cindi Van Meir has more than a decade of experience creating technology products for human resource departments and their employees. As a product manager at Benefitfocus, she leads cross-functional teams of user experience, engineering, and product management to design and develop products that are serving 25 million consumers.

Cinda Jones, CFP, CDFA, is a divorce only financial consultant who provides services to couples, individuals, their attorneys, and other advisors before and during the divorce process.  Consulting services also include prenuptial and postnuptial financial agreement analysis.\nMs. Jones has been a Certified Financial Planner since 1987 and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst since 1997.\nShe is a trained collaborative professional.  Ms. Jones is a member of the Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego since inception (1999) and a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.\nMs. Jones has completed 40 hours of Mediating Divorce Agreements and 12 hours of Advanced Divorce Mediation.\nMs. Jones has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University.\nShe is an experienced speaker who has provided divorce financial education programs to groups and organizations such as the Financial Planning Association National Conference September 2011;  San Diego County Bar Association; Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts;  San Diego CPA-Personal Financial Planners; Financial Planning Association – Retreat; and San Diego National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.\nShe has provided expert testimony regarding the fiduciary and professional standards for financial planners who work with parties in the divorce process. \nIn addition, Ms. Jones has provided expert testimony in connection with tracing assets for fiduciary accounting, pension plan division, separate property reimbursement, and Epstein credits.  \n

Chuck Miller is a strategist, project manager and content producer. He has worked with insurers, investment advisers, consulting firms and plan sponsors across all media platforms, with significant experience in new media strategy and production. \n\nMiller is the co-author of Employee Benefit Communications: A Guide published by BLR and The Employee Benefit Communications Toolkit, published by CCH.

Brian Baker is a benefits consultant at Corporate Synergies. He applies 20 years of experience in group employee benefits consultation to reducing the employer’s program costs. His expertise includes in-depth market research, strategic plan design, claims data analysis and diligent negotiations. He has achieved success in improving workforce health and productivity via customized wellness strategies that engage employees to take ownership of their health behaviors and benefits decisions.

Christopher Ward is a partner and litigation attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he focuses on representing and counseling employers in all aspects of labor and employment law throughout the country.

Anh Tran is the managing partner at SageMint Wealth, a Southern California-based wealth management firm for high-net-worth individuals, families and business owners with a passion for supporting women, the LGBTQ+ community and individuals in the technology space. As a Certified Professional Planner and estate planning attorney, Ms. Tran is in a unique position to counsel her clients on a wide variety of wealth management and estate planning issues. Ms. Tran manages over $350 million in total client assets and has been consistently ranked in the top 1% of financial advisors at LPL Financial. She has also been recognized as a Forbes Top Women Wealth Advisor.

Christine Nigro is a senior vice president for AXA Equitable and president of AXA Advisors, LLC, the broker\/dealer for the retail distribution channel for the company. Ms. Nigro is responsible for managing all aspects of the broker\/dealer including overseeing business development and operations, sales and marketing, and partner management for 5,200 AXA Advisors financial professionals nationwide. \nMs. Nigro has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, and joined AXA Advisors in February 2006 as chief operating officer (COO) of the broker\/dealer. AS COO, she played a major role in enhancing the operational efficiency of the broker\/dealer and in providing strategic guidance to expand its service, technology and investment product offerings to support the wide range of needs of AXA Advisors financial professionals and clients. \nMs. Nigro has held numerous management roles for domestic and global organizations. Prior to joining AXA Advisors, she was vice president and director of Personal Financial Services, Investment Operations and Customer Service for JP Morgan Chase, where she was responsible for supporting telephone customer sales, service, and product administration. \nPreviously, Ms. Nigro was vice president of the International Private Client Group for Merrill Lynch, where she was responsible for creating new products and developing local markets in the United Kingdom and Australia. Earlier, she spent eight years with Fidelity Investments: four in the United Kingdom where she was responsible for the execution, clearing and custody for the organization’s assets for more than 40,000 clients, and four years developing treasury and risk systems at Fidelity-owned National Financial Services. \nMs. Nigro earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ithaca College. She holds the FINRA Series 7, Series 24 and U63 registrations.