Staff section
Monte Tarbox is the Executive Director, Investments for the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) which provides pension benefits to IBEW construction electricians nation-wide. NEBF has over 500,000 participants, over 9,000 contributing employers and assets of $12 billion. Monte has over 25 years of experience as an investment officer and advisor serving multi-employer pension funds and… Read more »
Lori Wood is the Executive Director of the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund located in Fairfax, Va. The Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund is a $4 billion, labor-management defined benefit pension plan with approximately 140,000 participants nationwide. Lori has 25 years of experience in working with Taft-Hartley benefit plans, plan sponsors and organized… Read more »
Lorraine Lewis has been employed by the UMWA Health & Retirement Funds as Executive Director since 2003. Prior to working at the Funds, Ms. Lewis served as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education, the General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and the General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee… Read more »
Martha LaFave has spent several years working with Self Insured Taft Harley Health plans. She is the Health Fund Coordinator for the Operating Engineers Local #49 Health & Welfare Fund and previously was the a Fund Administrator for the Sheet Metal Workers Local #10., Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has worked to implement programs that provide early… Read more »
Jeff Applegate is an actor who has worked for more than 25 years on stage, screen and radio. He has served as union deputy on various stage productions and as a National Councilor and negotiating team member for Actors Equity Association. He became an observer/apprentice of the union caucus of the Equity-League Benefit Funds in… Read more »
Jim is the Director of the Negotiated Benefits Department at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), as well as the Director of UFCW’s Capital Stewardship Program. As Director of the Negotiated Benefits department Jim works with UFCW’s benefit funds to address the challenges that they face as we work to sustain and… Read more »
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