Randy G. DeFrehn, Executive Director, National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer plans (NCCMP), has over 40 years of experience serving multiemployer plans, their participants and sponsoring organizations, Randy has served as an administrator of national pension, health and welfare benefit plans in the U.S. and Canada; an employee benefits consultant; a registered investment advisor; and since 2000, as their lead advocate and chief spokesman on matters of public policy. He regularly testifies before committees of the United States House of Representatives, Senate, and administrative agencies with jurisdiction over multiemployer plans. He is often consulted by government officials and quoted in the mainstream and trade press in the US and Europe. During his tenure the NCCMP has been instrumental passage of a variety of legislative measures to protect the interests of these plans and their participants, including the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) which provided additional voluntary tools for trustees of plans otherwise heading for insolvency to remain solvent and preserve participants’ benefits above what they would have received under previous law. Recognizing that employee benefit trends no longer respect geographic boundaries, in 2009 Randy joined with like-minded advocates in Canada and the European Union as a founding member of the Consortium of Advocates for Worker Benefit Security to share information regarding developing trends and coordinate comments and responses to government proposals and quasi-governmental regulatory authorities. This consortium was expanded in 2013 to become the Global Pension Alliance which represents a wide array of organizations and pension plan sponsors. Under his leadership, the NCCMP received the National Electrical Contractor Association’s “Industry Partner Award” for its work to preserve and protect multiemployer pension plans. Personally, Randy was recognized as a “CORPaTH Champion.” Institutional Investor Magazine has named him a member of their Pension 40 each year since its inception in 2013. This has been described as a listing of “the 40 most influential people in the battle to decide the future of U.S. pensions.” In addition, Randy received the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans 2015 Public Service Award which recognizes an individual’s contribution and concern for others through the advocacy and advancement of employee benefit plans Randy is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and earned a Master of Arts in Industrial Relations from St. Francis College. Loretto, Pennsylvania.