SPONSOR PROFILES

ADP Retirement Services
71 Hanover Park
Florham Park, NJ 07932
adp.com

ADP is a leading retirement plan provider offering a wide range of qualified and nonqualified plan choices tailored to help your employees maximize their benefit. We leverage innovative technology to help drive plan success, manage administrative risk, while creating an engaging experience for your workforce.

From an online plan health dashboard and investment advisory services to our award winning employee education and mobile-enabled solutions, your ADP retirement plan will work hard for you and your employees. Because retirement benefits aren’t just about saving for the future – they are about attracting and retaining a motivated and productive workforce.

Ameritas
1876 Waycross Road
Cincinnati, OH 45240
Ph: 800-825-1551
ameritas.com

Founded in 1887, Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and its affiliated companies offer a wide range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, vision and hearing care insurance; retirement plans; investments; asset management and public finance. Securities offered through affiliate Ameritas Investment Corp., member FINRA/SIPC. For more information, visit ameritas.com.

Amundi Pioneer Asset Management
60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Steven Forss
Ph: 617-422-4710
steven.forss@amundipioneer.com
amundipioneer.com/us

Amundi Pioneer is the US investment headquarters of parent company Amundi, among the world’s top 10 asset managers globally* with more than $1.7 trillion under management across six investment hubs (as of 9/30/19). Amundi Pioneer Asset Management offers a broad range of fixed income, equity, and multi-asset investment solutions. A focus on proprietary research, robust risk management, disciplined investment process, and close partnerships with clients has made the firms that comprise Amundi Pioneer investment managers of choice among leading institutional and individual investors worldwide. Amundi Pioneer manages approximately $86.40 billion in the US as of September 30, 2019.

*Investments & Pensions Europe “Top 400 asset managers,” published in June 2019 and based on assets under management as of December 2018.

Actuarial Systems Corporation
15840 Monte Street, Suite 108
Sylmar, California 91342
Ph: 818-344-2084
asc-net.com

ASC is a leading provider of software for the retirement plan industry. Approximately half of the 401(k) accounts in the US are tested by ASC’s Compliance Testing System. Compliance Automation Tools, such as Plan Sponsor Driven Testing (DRIVE) and Single Step Processing (SSP) maximize resources for efficient year-end processing. DRIVE is the next-generation in automation, allowing Plan Sponsors to initiate their own testing online. Data from your recordkeeping system integrates with ASC. Plus even more efficiencies are gained because ASC’s Cycle 3, and all plan documents, integrate with ASC’s Compliance Testing System. ASC’s suite of solutions includes Plan Documents, 5500 Forms, Valuation/Recordkeeping Systems, CRM Workflow Systems, and more. Contact us today!

Ascensus
200 Dryden Rd
Dresher, Pennsylvania 19025
Media@ascensus.com
careers.ascensus.com

Ascensus is the largest independent recordkeeping services provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator in the United States. The firm delivers technology and expertise to help millions of people save for what matters most — retirement, education, and healthcare. For more information about Ascensus, visit ascensus.com. View career opportunities at careers.ascensus.com.

BenefitsLink.com & EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com
1298 Minnesota Ave., Suite H
Winter Park, FL 32789
Lois Baker, President
David Baker, Editor and Publisher
Ph: 407-644-4146
LoisBaker@benefitslink.com
BenefitsLink.com / EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com

BenefitsLink daily e-newsletters provide the latest developments and analysis in plan compliance, administration, policy and design – since 1995, we’ve delivered the very best articles to keep you on top of this ever-changing field. Website includes active message boards, industry news and an extensive calendar of conferences and webcasts.

Find – and fill — job openings on our sister site, www.EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com

And be sure to check out our mobile app – now available in the Apple Store and on Google Play.

28,000 Employee Benefits Professionals rely on us to keep them up to date – do you?

Holly Horton, SPARK media sponsor

Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, New York 11717
Ph: 888-237-1900
broadridge.com

Broadridge, a global fintech leader with $4 billion in revenue, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. We help drive business transformation with solutions for enriching client engagement, navigating risk, optimizing efficiency and generating revenue growth.

Our integrated, front-to-back solutions translate data into actionable insights and streamline the investment lifecycle. Touching 90% of the world’s mutual fund assets, we are uniquely positioned to help asset managers get ahead of today’s challenges and capitalize on what’s next.

Cerulli Associates
699 Boylston St, Ste 11
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Liz Smith
Ph: 617-841-1059
esmith@cerulli.com
cerulli.com

Founded in 1992, Cerulli Associates is a research and consulting firm specializing in asset management and distribution trends worldwide.

Headquartered in Boston, Cerulli also has offices in London and Singapore. Cerulli blends original research and data analysis to bring perspective to current market conditions and forecasts for future developments.

Cerulli provides firms with guidance in strategic positioning and new business development through a suite of research publications, an online data platform, and through custom research and advisory services. Cerulli’s core product lines are complementary and include:

• The Cerulli Report Series
• The Cerulli Edge Series
• Cerulli Lodestar
• Consulting & Custom Research

Cerulli Associates
SPARK Forum Exhibitor 2019

Chesapeake Benefit Partners
6601 Gleaming Sand Chase
Columbia, MD 21044

Chesapeake Benefit Partners (CBP) is a niche strategic and tactical consulting firm, serving the retirement plan services industry since 2004.

Commonbond
524 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10012

CommonBond is a financial technology company on a mission to give students and graduates more affordable, transparent, and simple ways to pay for higher education. The company offers refinance loans to college graduates, new loans to current students, and a suite of student loan repayment benefits to employees through its CommonBond for Business™ program.

By designing a better student loan experience that combines advanced technology, competitive rates and award-winning customer service, CommonBond has funded over $3 billion in loans, partnered with over 300 corporate clients, and serves 11 million employees. CommonBond is also the first and only finance company with a “one-for-one” social mission: for every loan it funds, CommonBond funds the education of a child in need. For more information, visit www.commonbond.co.

Convergent, LLC
2018 Powers Ferry Rd SE, Suite 550
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Ph:866-567-7221
Kathy Sierra
info@beconvergent.com
beconvergent.com

Convergent is a retirement technology firm that delivers innovative solutions and world class expertise. Our knowledge of the retirement business, understanding of industry products and deep technology expertise separates us from the crowd.

Our industry expertise ranges from the micro to the very large plan market and our solution engineers have decades of end to end retirement processing knowledge ranging from system upgrades or conversions to developing custom record keeping solutions. Superior technology, measurable results and smart solutions are what enables us to deliver a degree of difference and Be Convergent.

dailyVest
5151 E Broadway Blvd #1520
Tucson, Arizona 85711
PH: 520-548-7403
petemcnellis@dailyvest.com
dailyvest.com

We are a financial services software company who brings over a decade of innovation and experience to investment performance reporting for retail mutual fund investors, 401k plan participants and retirement plan sponsors. Our big data visualization technology for 401k plans and investor populations make it easy for TPA’s, plan sponsors and administrators to extract the full value of their data.

Data443
data443.com

The Data443 mission is to deliver industry-leading, next-generation cybersecurity products, and services. Our products enable data security across local devices, network, cloud, and databases, at rest and in flight. We provide user and governance-enabled, up-to-date security for every data point, every time.

Visit data443.com to learn more about our archiving, data classification, governance and GDPR/CCPA compliant capabilities.

DIETRICH ANNUITY
1000 Germantown Pike, Suite K-1
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
dietrichannuity.com

DIETRICH provides insured institutional solutions to plan sponsors interested in transferring risk from their retirement plans.

Through the use of fully-insured group annuity contracts, we engineer turnkey insured funding programs for traditional Defined Benefit (pension) plan terminations and pension risk transfers, Defined Contribution plans with guaranteed income options, non-qualified executive compensation plans, retiree medical obligations and OPEB plans.

DTCC
dtcc.com

With over 45 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities, data centers and offices in 16 countries, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. To learn more, visit dtcc.com.

EvoShare

EvoShare is a financial platform that enables employees to save for their 401(k) or 403(b) while shopping online and locally at stores, bars, and restaurants. Our service allows employees to spend at their favorite businesses, and receive up to 30% cash-back towards their retirement plan through their employer. For too long, employees have only relied on their paycheck to save for retirement. Now, employees can use both their earnings, and their daily spending to grow their nest egg! EvoShare partners with employers looking to increase employee participation, contributions, and overall engagement in their 401(k) plan. These employers offer EvoShare as a unique perk that gives their employees a breakthrough solution toward their retirement efforts. EvoShare also partners with over 10,000 online, and local merchants, giving generous cash-back amounts towards employees’ retirement accounts. This number continues to grow every day!

Fiduciary Benchmarks
Ph: 480-656-4414
Tom Kmak
tomkmak@fiduciarybenchmarks.com
fiduciarybenchmarks.com

Fiduciary Benchmarks provides independent, comprehensive and informative benchmarking services to the industry’s most respected Recordkeepers, Third Party Administrators, Broker/Dealers, Fund Managers and Advisor/Consultants to help them fulfill their ERISA duties. We ensure that Service Providers, Plan Sponsors and Plan Participants benefit from a comprehensive analysis for determination of fee reasonableness. This means that the quality of the provider, the cost drivers, the value factors associated with supporting the plan and “extra credit”​ items are logically evaluated against the fees that are being paid.

Fluent Technologies
331 Montvale Avenue, Suite 280
Stoneham, Massachusetts 02180
PH: 781-939-0900
lmiller@fluenttech.com
fluenttech.com

Fluent has a history of aggregating and analyzing retirement plan data and transforming it into action based insight for the right audience. We stand by our slogan, “smart data that speaks to your markets”.

Fluent’s UtopiaAdvisor suite allows advisors to evaluate plan health and investment metrics at plan and participant levels, transforming plan data into actionable information to improve retirement outcomes. It is configured for enterprise use serving advisor network platforms and plan recordkeepers. Record keepers and RIAs count on us for plan data trends and participant insights. Trusted by some of the biggest brands in the industry, Fluent has served the financial market since 1994.

GlobeTax
One New York Plaza, 34th Floor
New York, New York 10004
Juliet Zymeck
Ph: 212-747-9100
Juliet_Zymeck@globetax.com
globetax.com

GlobeTax specializes in the recovery of withholding tax for cross-border investors, servicing clients in 40+ countries around the world. The firm provides a full-service tax recovery, relief and reporting offering for investors who hold both American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and foreign ordinary shares; GlobeTax is also a provider of outsource tax reclaim services to the four US banks issuing ADRs: BNY Mellon, Citi, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase. GlobeTax conducts withholding tax research on over 240+ jurisdictions worldwide and processes over 7 million tax reclaims per year, as the largest tax reclaim filer in the world.

GuidedChoice
8910 University Center Lane, Suite 700
San Diego, California 92122
Ph: 888-675-4532
guidedchoice.com/business

Guidedchoice has rigorous methodology and advanced scenario planning tools to provide personalized, prudent, and actionable end-to-end retirement advice for plan participants.

Our services can be customized and scale for the simplest to the most complex plan designs — and are designed to fulfill your fiduciary responsibility while putting the interests of your employees first. And with our robust reporting, monitoring plan health is easy.

HealthView Services
55 Ferncroft Rd
Danvers, MA 01923
hvsfinancial.com

HealthView Services (commonly referred to as HVS) is the nation’s leading producer of health care cost-projection software.

The company’s primary objective is to prepare current and future retirees for the impact of health care costs, and the firm’s suite of tools, which covers Medicare costs, long-term care expenses, and Social Security optimization strategies, provides a holistic approach to financial stability in retirement. HVS has also emerged as a thought leader in this evolving domain, producing substantial educational content on the importance of integrating health care costs into retirement plans.

Infosys McCamish Systems, LLC
3225 Cumberland Boulevard SE, Suite 700
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
Darin Lister
770-690-1797
darin_lister@infosys.com
infosysmccamish.com

END TO END SOLUTIONS FOR RETIREMENT PLANS
Infosys McCamish Systems supports a financial institution client base with its full service 409A compliant non-qualified administration platform, VPAS Benefit Plan Administration. With its front-end Internet based sales enabling services, Advisorfolio and Deferral +, Infosys McCamish Systems also provides automated best practice sales and design solutions in a turn-key platform. This plan design and sales platform cost effectively leverages scarce expert talent and enables non-expert distribution to deliver best practice 409A compliant solutions to the underpenetrated mid-market.

Infosys McCamish Systems offers their solutions as platform only Software as a Service, or as a full recordkeeping outsourcing arrangement. With the merging of McCamish Systems into the Infosys family of companies, offerings include Qualified Retirement Plan Services in the DB & DC markets with both onshore and offshore delivery models. For more information please contact Darin Lister at darin_lister@infosys.com.

Rich Magner, SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

iraLogix
100 South Commons Alloy 26
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Ph: 330-328-9627
plittlejohn@iralogix.com
iralogix.com

iraLogix is an industry-leading provider of technology-enabled, fully paperless, white label IRA recordkeeping solutions. The company’s everyIRA(r) recordkeeping and technology solutions enable any financial institution to easily customize their IRA offering and compete effectively in all segments of the IRA market. Through modular technology, clients have the choice to use their internal investment or advisory capabilities or select from a number of industry leading providers, as desired. Regardless of market strategy, iraLogix can streamline your IRA service options and expand your business.

Laurel Hill Advisory Group
Joe McDavitt
PH: 646-398-3022
jmcdavitt@laurelhill.com
laurelhill.com

Laurel Hill Advisory Group is the number one independent cross border provider of Shareholder Communications and Asset Recovery services in North America. Additionally our missing participant compliance services seamlessly supplement our clients existing operations. Our services meet DOL and IRS guidelines fulfilling your fiduciary duty to missing participants by using best efforts due diligence and minimizes potential regulatory fines and penalties. Our solution follows strict security policies and procedures.

LIMRA LOMA Secure Retirement Institute
Gary Lineberry
Ph: 770-984-3728
glineberry@loma.org
limra.com/secureretirementinstitute

The LIMRA LOMA Secure Retirement Institute provides comprehensive, unbiased research and education covering all aspects of the retirement industry. It also offers a forum for senior leaders across the financial services retirement landscape to identify and explore the challenges Americans face surrounding retirement. The Secure Retirement Institute’s goal is to spur innovation and broaden industry collaboration to help improve retirement readiness and promote retirement security.

Messagepoint
207 Queen’s Quay West, Suite 802
Toronto, ON M5J1A7
Ph: 416-687-5381
info@messagepoint.com

Messagepoint is a SaaS-based Customer Communications Management (CCM) solution that enables organizations to enhance customer experiences with optimized communications. Our customers include industry-leading banks, financial services organizations, and insurers that leverage Messagepoint’s intelligent content management capabilities to create more timely, relevant, compliant and highly-personalized customer-facing communications, across print and digital channels.

Millennium Trust Company
2001 Spring Road, Suite 700
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
mtrustcompany.com

Millennium Trust Company is a leading automatic rollover IRA provider for retirement plans. Our solutions help plan sponsors and other professionals comply with DOL safe harbor requirements for automatic rollovers.

We offer a full range of services to address plan-related issues including: missing participants, uncashed checks, benefit distributions and notification services. These solutions not only can help plan sponsors limit fiduciary risk and reduce cost, but also increase access to retirement readiness for more Americans.

Millennium Trust
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

O’Neil Digital Solutions
12655 Beatrice Street
Los Angeles, California 90066
PH: 816-500-9645
jeff.melton@oneildata.com
oneildata.com

O’Neil is a leader in innovative data-driven technology to produce and deliver compliance-driven, marketing communications and other business critical documents for the financial services industry.

O’Neil creates solid business applications for our client’s unique data driven needs by leveraging our core-competency in complex data-processing print and distribution. O’Neil Digital Solutions makes it easy for you to strengthen your customer relationships by communicating how they prefer.

We offer a complete Omni-channel communications platform for creating and delivering personalized documents, anywhere your audience wants to receive them — via mobile, web, email or print.

O’Neil Digital Solutions
SPARK Forum Exhibitor 2019

RCP Solutions
550 Pinetown Road, Suite 320
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Mark Sweatman
Ph: 267-607-4175
msweatman@rcp-solutions.com
rcp-solutions.com

RCP Solutions specializes in risk management, compliance, communications and outreach programs that drive performance and positively impact the bottom line for our clients. Driven by state-of-the-art technology solutions, we integrate the many facets of business, risk, compliance and management to achieve the best results for our clients.

For retirement plans, we help mitigate plan participant risks such as missing participants, locating beneficiaries and resolving uncashed checks while providing the necessary audit trail reporting.

Mark Sweatman, SPARK Member & Conference Exhibitor

T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.
4515 Painters Mill Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117
troweprice.com

INVEST WITH CONFIDENCE® T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on—now, and over the long term. We provide an array of commingled funds, subadvisory services, separate account management, retirement recordkeeping, and related services for individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors.

Our intellectual rigor helps us seek the best ideas for our clients, our integrity ensures that we always put their interests first, and our stability lets us stay focused on their goals as we pursue better investment outcomes.

As of June 31, 2019, T. Rowe Price has more than USD $2.5 billion in assets under management and serves clients in 49 countries worldwide.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

TCS BFSI Platforms provides end-to-end Digital Platform-as-a-Service capabilities for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance customers. TCS’ third-party administration (TPA) services bundle business operations, a digital technology ecosystem, and cloud-based infrastructure in a Digital First Operating Model. Powered by the TCS BaNCS™ universal financial solution, TCS’ Digital Platform strategy is geared to improving customer experience by lowering enterprise complexity and operational risk, through a digital business architecture comprising a customer experience and journey layer, data and analytics engine, electronic communications hub and cloud-based infrastructure. With more than 35 million policies already under administration, TCS BFSI Platforms is proven in its ability to take insurance and financial services organizations through the journey of Business 4.0 through investment in Cloud, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Agile.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that partners with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys. TCS offers a consulting-led, Cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of IT, Business & Technology Services, and engineering. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India.

For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com. For the most up-to-date content and news, download the ‘TCS Perspectives’ app for your iOS and Android device.

The Retirement Advisor University, Inc.
4425 Military Trail, Suite 202
Jupiter, Florida 33458
Ph: 561-371-4902
Fred@TRAUniversity.com
trauniversity.com

TRAU (The Retirement Advisor University) is now partnering with SPARK and its members to offer the acclaimed ARPC and ARPS designations to providers, advisers and their staff leveraging the newly updated courses on TRAU’s LMS. More info here.

In addition to the online certification, TRAU will be hosting half day regional at 5-10 SPARK members’ offices in 2020 with 25-35 advisers expected. Come to our booth to learn more about hosting ARPC and ARPS training.

TRAU and SPARK Training Partnership
Fred Barstein at SPARK Forum 2019

vWise
85 Enterprise, Suite 320
Aliso Viejo, California 92656
Ph: 949-716-1276
info@vwise.com
vwise.com

vWise provides innovative, scalable solutions designed to increase efficiencies and optimize outcomes through interactive, personalized experiences that boost confidence and drive informed decision making.

Aligned with the way today’s digital savvy audience consumes content, our solutions feature relevant, engaging information in an easy to understand format that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, on any device. For more information, visit vwise.com.