Thomas J. Mackell
Dr. Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. has had a life-long career in the management, administration and investment management of employee benefit funds.

Dr. Mackell was appointed a Class C Director of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on January 1, 2003 where he served as Deputy Chairman since June 2003 and as Chairman from January 1, 2005 until December 31, 2008.

He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Benefits and Pension Services, Inc. and is President of the Association of Benefit Administrators and Editor of its Newsletter, Insights.

Dr. Mackell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Director of the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies, a member of the National Board of Directors of Volunteers of America and the Editorial Advisory Board of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.- Publishers and Consultants, and a member of the Council on American Politics at the George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.

He was a White House appointee to the ERISA Advisory Council to the Secretary of Labor in 1997 through 1999.

Dr. Mackell spent 14 years with the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association as Administrator of their jointly-administered trust funds and has worked over the last 28

years in the investment management and financial services business working with Taft-Hartley, public, corporate pension funds and endowments and foundations on asset allocation and corporate governance issues.

In addition, Dr. Mackell was a professor at C.W. Post Center, Long Island University's School of Health and Public Affairs, and adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology Graduate Center for Labor and Industrial Relations School of Management.

He was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Investment Management Consultants Association, a member of the International Foundation for Employee Benefit Plans, a past member of the board of the American Benefits Council, and a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He was a director of the Association of Investment Management Sales Executives and a trustee of the New York Foundation. He is a former member of the advisory boards of the Empire State College, St. Thomas University School of Law, and the Corsi Institute of Labor-Management Relations of Pace University.

Dr. Mackell is the author of the book: "When the Good Pensions Go Away, Why America Needs a New Deal for Pension and Health Care Reform."

He earned a bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University, attended St. John's University School of Law, and earned a master's degree from Long Island University and a doctorate from Rutgers University.