Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Claudia Viek is founder of the Invest in Women Entrepreneurs Initiative and former chief executive of the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity.

Arthur Levitt Jr. is former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Steve Auerbach is CEO of Alegeus.

Leon is a partner in Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's Employee Benefits Group. Plan sponsors, plan administrators, plan fiduciaries and third-party record keepers seek his counsel on designing, establishing and maintaining qualified retirement plans, including ESOPs, 401(k), 403(b), 457(b) and defined benefit plans. He is also well-versed in negotiating recordkeeping agreements, ERISA 3(21) and 3(38) investment advisor/manager agreements, and the benefit aspects of large corporate transactions.

David B. Root, CFP, is the founder and CEO at D.B. Root & Company.

Richardson is a partner in the Pillsbury’s executive compensation and benefits practice and is located in the San Francisco office. She provides advice on all aspects of employee benefits, including: drafting, designing, and implementing, as well as handling operational, compliance, and strategic planning considerations related to tax-qualified plans such as 401(k) plans; non-qualified deferred compensation programs; welfare and health benefit plans encompassing wellness programs, reimbursement accounts, severance programs, cafeteria plans; fringe benefit plans; bonus programs; and advice related to the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, Affordable Care Act, WARN Act, HIPAA, and COBRA compliance issues.

Lutrin is a senior associate in Pillsbury’s executive compensation and benefits practice and is located in the New York office. Her practice focuses on the design, implementation and compliance of compensatory and benefits arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives, and deferred compensation and employment, retention and severance agreements, with particular emphasis on compensation and benefits issues arising in the transactional context.

Jenny Surane is a finance reporter at Bloomberg News.

Ilya Braude is the vice president of technology for platform solutions at Medullan, a digital health firm that designs and builds powerful solutions that achieve high rates of adoption for payers, providers, life sciences and pharma. At Medullan, he leads the Platform Solutions technology team, building and delivering Medullan’s suite of products.

Kugele specializes in employee benefits and privacy and information security law. His employee benefits work focuses on health and welfare benefits and the administrative issues associated with them, including COBRA, HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act. Kugele is also a privacy expert who helps organizations understand and comply with state, federal and international privacy and information security laws, including HIPAA, FTC consumer privacy requirements and breach notification laws.