MEPs: What Are Plan Sponsor Perceptions and Intentions?

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Gary Lineberry

Gary Lineberry is responsible for helping to develop the Fellow, Secure Retirement Institute (FSRI) retirement designation program and for working with member firms associated with the LIMRA LOMA Secure Retirement Institute in the consideration and implementation of FSRI. Prior to joining LOMA in 2013, Lineberry served as Vice President and Head of Consultant Relations at DST Retirement Solutions. Previously he was a Senior Vice President and Head of Institutional Retirement for AXA Financial and, prior to AXA, was President of the DC business at MetLife.

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Deb Dupont

Deb Dupont is responsible for LIMRA’s institutional (retirement plans) retirement research program. She conducts and supervises research, benchmark reporting, and study groups focused on the issues and trends faced by constituents of the defined contribution industry. She also provides guidance and thought leadership in helping LIMRA's member firms better understand the opportunities available for improving delivery of institutional retirement solutions.

Prior to joining LIMRA in 2014, Deb was the Director of ING's Retirement Research Institute (the Institute), where she created, managed, and published a research platform that included work focusing on multi-cultural, generational, and gender-based analyses of retirement behaviors, and also published insights and analyses of ING's own cross-defined contribution (i.e., across employment sectors) participant base. Deb's work has been recognized for effectiveness and quality by some of the most prestigious awards in the financial services and communications industries, including the Insurance and Financial Communicators' Association and the International Association of Business Communicators. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.