PANC 2020: Advisers Giving Back – Ideas for Getting Started

Ken, a Managing Director at UBS is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®), he has over 30 years of 401k Institutional Consulting experience and joined UBS in 1991. Ken heads up with his son Brian the Catanella Institutional Team in Philadelphia and as of 12/31/19 consulting to over $5 billion in retirement plan assets.
The Catanella Institutional Consulting Team is nationally recognized as one the Premier 401k Consulting Teams to Private Equity Retirement Plans.
In 2020 The Catanella Institutional Consulting Team was named Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers by Plan Adviser Magazine as additionally in years 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
In 2018 named one of Barron’s Top 50 Institutional Consulting Team.
In 2016 The Catanella Institutional Consulting Team was named the Plan Adviser Team of the Year by Plan Adviser Magazine.
In 2015 and 2016 Ken was selected by The Financial Times as one of the Top 401k Retirement Plan Advisers.
In 2015 and 2017 Ken was selected by Barron’s to moderate and speak at the annual Barron’s Institutional Consulting Conference.
In 2018 Ken was selected to the Retirement Plan Consulting Advisory Council of UBS.
In 2011 Ken was named by the 401kWire as the Number One 401k Plan Advisor for Mid-Market Retirement Plans in America.
In 2008 during the financial crisis, Ken was selected to be one of two Institutional Consultants to be a member of the UBS Financial Services Investment Committee of the Americas with respect to the investment of assets of the firm’s Pension and 401k Retirement Plans covering over 17,000 participants.
Ken holds an undergraduate degree from Butler University where he played Varsity Football.
Ken is the Founder of the Moorestown, NJ “Challenger Baseball” program for children with Autism and Down Syndrome and other disabilities
Ken, along with the Mayor of Moorestown, NJ founded the foodbank “Moorestown Neighbors Helping Neighbors” in March 2020

Taking what he has learned over the last three decades, Brad brings his industry experience and knack for prognosticating what’s coming…or needs to come next, to a business plan aimed at serving a demographic that has largely been ignored by the wealth management sector – successful financial outcomes for the American worker. As the fifth employee in his family’s local retirement planning/recordkeeping business, he used his legal training for spotting issues and coming up with progressive solutions to help engineer a sustainable firm with a national client footprint and over 140 employees at its peak. Brad’s pioneering spirit pushes an atmosphere of innovation yet collaboration among the intellicents team; and, ever the creative visionary, he has a penchant for taking the “fine” or even the “good” and turning it into the “beautiful”…like a 40+ year-old company with a startup mentality and aspirations for offices around the country. Brad has worked in the retirement and employee benefits areas for over three decades. With a concentration on the design, funding, and communication of defined contribution retirement plans, IRC Section 125 flexible benefits plans, defined contribution health insurance approaches, private health insurance exchanges, health savings accounts, executive compensation plans, and worksite financial wellness programs, he has practically made ERISA his work-wife. A graduate of Washington University School of Law, he is a current member of the Retirement Advisor Council for Fidelity Investments Custody and Clearing Group (FCC), a former member of the Charles Schwab Retirement Business Services Trust & Custody Advisory Board, a former member of the Advisory Council for SunGard Relius, a member and former President of Retirement Advisors & Designers of America (RADA), a former member of the Employee Benefit Section of the Minnesota Bar Association, and a current member of the Blue Partners Advisory Board for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Brad is a frequent industry speaker, and he primarily focuses today on expanding the company footprint nationally by recruiting new teammates to join intellicents. Offline Brad enjoys decompressing either in the gym or around water…which generally involves a lake, a boat, good classic rock or Motown tunes, a full cooler, and his wife of more than three decades. He chases his three adult daughters around the Twin Cities in support of their “foodie” habits, loves to go “out west” skiing a couple times each winter and makes his yard an art project every spring and summer. He’d like to be a decent golfer some day, but accepts that it’s just going to be another source of stress right now while his play is generally confined to only three or four charity best-shots per year. At the end of the day, he simply loves his job. Brad also deeply believes in giving back to the community of Albert Lea, Minnesota where he was raised and that has supported his business efforts. His current passion centers on the issue of rural healthcare. For 2 ½ years, he chaired the local citizens action group Save Our Healthcare whose mission was to: 1) restore services being removed; 2) regain control of the healthcare services offered in the community; and 3) reduce the cost of high-quality healthcare in the community. Today, those efforts have morphed into the Albert Lea Healthcare Coalition, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that Brad helped found and currently volunteers as its President. Its purpose is to build a full-service healthcare clinic and outpatient surgery center to serve the citizens of Albert Lea and the surrounding area by providing an affordable high-quality healthcare alternative. In recognition of his local business development and community service efforts, Brad was inducted into the Albert Lea High School Education Foundation Hall of Fame in 2017. Read his inspirational “What He’s Learned Along the Way” talk here he gave to the senior class as part of his induction. Brad was also named 2020 Citizen of the year by the Albert Lea Tribune for his volunteer efforts to restore lost healthcare services to Albert Lea and the surrounding communities.

Kelli Davis is the Vice President of Retirement Plan Consulting at CSi Advisory Services. Since 2004, Kelli has been dedicated to helping individuals reach their retirement goals. She takes a great interest in what clients do with their free time to learn better ways to guide them towards achieving financial success. She believes that qualified retirement plans have become an essential part of people’s financial lives. With defined benefit pension plans becoming increasingly rare, 401(k) and 403(b) plans are necessary vehicles to allow people to save for retirement. That is why Kelli dedicates much of her to helping employers offer quality retirement plans, so their employees can save for a comfortable retirement. Kelli holds a B.S. in Economics from DePauw University. She has earned her Accredited Investment Fiduciary, AIF®, and Certified 401(k) Professional, C(k)P, designations. She is a proud wife and mom of twins living in Indianapolis.

Michael Newhall has served as the Vice President, Business and Community Development since he joined Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group in 2014. In this role Michael has been responsible for creating and expanding “Sentinel Cares”, our Corporate Citizenship benefits. Sentinel Cares has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal, Invest in Others Foundation, Millie Giving, PlanAdviser and the New England Employee Benefits Council for creative employee engagement, philanthropy and community partnerships. Michael’s commitment to supporting and enhancing the Sentinel culture by creating authentic and personal opportunities that help employees to support the people and mission of the many nonprofit organizations that serve their communities has helped the company continue to recruit and retain talented professionals.

Prior to joining Sentinel, Michael served in senior leadership roles with nonprofit organizations for nearly 30 years, most recently as Associate Headmaster at St. John’s Preparatory School. He continues to serve on the advisory committee for the Prep to Pro Internship Program and the John Carnevale Golf outing at the school. In 2016, Sentinel Cares, with the help of family, friends and business partners helped create and donate $350,000 for the John Carnevale Scholarship after the sudden passing of our founding CEO. Michael also serves as an advisor on the development committee for Healing Abuse Working for Change (HAWC), the corporate partners committee at Cristo Rey High School in Lawrence, and Boston Children’s Hospital and the Corporate Cup. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Marketing from Providence College and a Master in Business Administration from Suffolk University in Boston.