meet our team

Each MCA consultant has 20-30 years of retirement experience with well-known, reputable financial institutions. Our consultants have direct real-world experience and firsthand knowledge of the problems our clients are trying to solve.

We create sustainable strategies for long-term growth. We do this through executive-to-executive partnership and collaboration, working as allies with you to address challenges.

Barbara March

CEO

  • With over 35 years of experience in the industry, Barb has extensive expertise leading global and domestic mutual fund, asset management and insurance companies, as well as global technology outsourcing firms. Barb's previous experience includes senior roles at TATA Consultancy Services, BridgePoint Group, Fidelity Investments, ING, Invesco Retirement, Putnam Investments, and T. Rowe Price. She has served as a strategic advisor to major financial institutions on growth and scale initiatives as well as acquisitions and mergers to increase profitability and market share. She is a highly sought-after subject matter expert, speaker and thought leadership contributor on topics related to retirement, financial services transformation and bringing strategic vision successfully to fruition.

  • Kim has extensive experience in the financial services industry with Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She has held senior level positions at TIAA, Charles Schwab, and Morgan Stanley. She is a proven strategic leader with deep expertise leading large-scale, critical initiatives. Kim is recognized for establishing strategic direction, building and leading high-performing cross-functional teams and connecting with stakeholders to drive tactical execution. Her leadership experience spans the full spectrum of corporate initiatives including strategy, annual business planning, offer and product development, client experience and engagement and support models.

Kim Ryan

Chief Client Officer

Director Of Talent Aquisition

Amy Lassen

  • Amy has a highly successful history in the financial services and management consulting industries with global Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining MCA, Amy held several positions with global specialized staffing and consulting firms, each with increasing responsibility, including her most recent role as Managing Partner where she focused on business development, building strong partnerships with key stakeholders, and recruiting active and passive candidates. Her key areas of expertise include client relationship management, building high-performing teams, and aligning exceptional talent with world-class organizations.

  • Linda is a CPA with a focused history in the financial services industry. She has held leadership positions in numerous projects including the implementation of a captive broker-dealer, clean-up of historical process failures, existing process and control risk evaluation, new process design, and the installation and upgrades of SunGard’s OMNIPayments and OMNICash products. She has consulted with providers to strengthen their internal control environment and transition them to open architecture. She has held senior management positions with BridgePoint Group, Merrill Lynch, Invesco, and Bank of America. Her skills include financial operational controls, risk management, business intelligence, business support, and project management.

Linda McDougald

COO

Julie Bell

Consultant

  • Julie Bell is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in the healthcare and financial services industries, specializing in launching new ventures and expanding established businesses. She has held key leadership roles at Cigna, ING, The Hartford and Aetna, with a proven track record in strategic planning, market positioning, and execution  Julie excels at driving success through critical strategic and business development initiatives, consistently delivering measurable outcomes.

Kerry Bettenhausen

  • Kerry has wide-ranging experience in financial services consulting and corporate leadership roles in retirement, asset management, broker/dealer, wealth management, and RIA. She previously held roles at TIAA, American Century Investments, H&R Block Financial Advisors, and Merrill Lynch, and led an independent consulting company for 13 years with domestic and international clients. Kerry excels at strategic marketing, global communications, product management, thought leadership, content marketing, sales strategy, and project management, focusing on client satisfaction, communications excellence, and sales growth.

Kerry Bettenhausen

Consultant

  • Ira is a successful mutual fund executive with many years of retail, offshore and institutional experience. He has a strong track record in building solutions, reducing risk and increasing productivity. A proven industry leader, Ira has developed excellent relationship building, tactical execution and decision making skills. He is a strategic thinker with a hands-on management style and a consistent record of success and has been recognized for developing and building winning teams. While regarded as a mutual fund expert, Ira has been a keynote speaker at many industry conferences and has been an active member on several industry-wide committees.

Ira Cohen

Consultant

  • Peter is an accomplished creative professional with a background in commercial and editorial photography, content creation, production, branding, and editing. His creative talent has been commissioned by Amazon, Mazda, Land Rover, Subaru, The NFL, Chevrolet, Frito-Lay, and many others to launch products and elevate brand aesthetic both nationally and globally. Peter excels in conceptual thinking and translating a brand’s core values and mission into consistent messaging and visuals across all channels and applications. Along with his creative mind, Peter is also highly technically skilled as a Photoshop expert in retouching and complex compositing. His projects have been awarded “Best Of” category multiple times by Adobe.

Peter Dawson

Creative Director

  • Lilia has a deep background in the retirement services industry. She previously held senior roles at Fidelity Investments, Mercer, and Putnam Investments. Lilia’s expertise includes partnering with diverse operational teams to develop strategic plans for successful client implementation while complying with legal mandates. She focuses on understanding key business issues and problem statements using consultative, analytical, and strategic communication skills in developing solutions, metrics and managing projects to a successful conclusion.

Lilia Gallagher

Consultant

  • Glen has held management and director-level positions for Fidelity Investments and worked as a Product Delivery Leader at Tata Consultancy Services. Glen has experience in Lean Six Sigma, Agile, process improvement, program management, project leadership and change management. His skills include offshoring processes, product and solution design, project management, quality controls, document reviews, regulatory compliance, vendor management, participant communications, offshore delivery, and process reengineering. Glen’s key areas of expertise include development of the framework for Quality programs while overseeing both small- and large-scale process improvement initiatives.

Glen Leavens

Consultant

  • Anne is a proven innovator with expertise in investing, product development, thought leadership, and sales and marketing. Prior to joining MCA, Anne was Global Head of Retirement Solutions at JPMorgan Asset Management, and led the strategy, architecture and management of JPMorgan SmartRetirement Funds. She specializes in strategy, product development, and messaging. Anne has significant expertise in integrating big data, capital markets and behavioral finance concepts to drive product design. She is a frequent speaker at industry and client forums on subjects related to investing, innovation, individual behavior, big data, and retirement policy.

Anne Lester

Consultant

  • Bill has comprehensive knowledge and experience in the financial services industry. He has held operational leadership roles with the Federal Reserve Bank – Miami Branch – Fiscal Agency, AMVESCAP Retirement, GPC Securities, Inc and Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing. Bill has a track record of leading teams to drive change and client satisfaction through value-added optimization of business processes and alignment of service capabilities with client focused activities. He is a results oriented leader with proven success in the project and program management and the implementation of strategic and regulatory solutions.

Bill Loveland

Consultant

Administration & Marketing

Christie Merrick

  • Christie works behind the scenes to enable the success of My Corporate Ally. She has previously held administrative roles at several different corporations, including Siemens and BridgePoint. She excels in polishing presentations, white papers, proposals, and other documents into professional, customer-ready materials. She also manages WordPress websites, executes marketing campaigns, and oversees the technology needs of our consultants. Christie enjoys learning and deploying new technologies and is a PowerPoint expert. Her skills include project management, proofreading and editing, website creation and maintenance, and MS 365 applications.

  • Jody has spent her career helping businesses refine their strategies and improve the value of their product and service portfolios, with over 30 years of experience in the institutional retirement, brokerage, trust and custody businesses. She has held executive leadership positions at major financial institutions in which she was responsible for growing revenues and profitability, advancing strategic product management capabilities, and driving significant transformation efforts. Jody has also led numerous strategic consulting engagements to help firms develop and execute their business growth strategies, refine their product offerings and associated product management capabilities, and drive extensive transformation and change management.

Jody Meth

Consultant

  • Megan is a proven leader in the financial services industry. She has held leadership positions at TIAA and Ascensus, focusing on product strategy, product lifecycle management, offer management and market segmentation. She is recognized for aligning products to meet client needs in support of organizational goals. In addition, Megan is highly skilled in leading large, complex, cross-functional teams by building effective relationships within an organization. She also has a proven track record in business process re-engineering and change management.

Megan Morgan

Consultant

  • Andi is an accomplished senior leader with a strong background in mutual funds with a detail oriented approach. Early in her career, she served as the CFO of the family of mutual funds at Raymond James Financial with considerable experience in operations and accounting. Later she was the CCO at an investment advisor, establishing and implementing an effective compliance program. Andi currently resides on a variety of mutual fund boards as an independent trustee and as the financial expert. Her analytical and strategic skills allow her to approach challenges in a methodical manner. She maintains an active CPA license in Florida.

Andi Mullins

Consultant

  • James has held numerous leadership roles in the Financial Services industry, including CEO of a Digital Bank, President of an Advisory business, President of multiple BDs, and Head of Customer Experience for a top 5 Retirement Plan provider. James has driven enterprise transformations around customer focus, advisory services, and financial wellness at firms like TIAA, Voya Vanguard, Wells Fargo and more. At each of these firms, James has consistently identified and unlocked new sources of enterprise value amidst complex corporate environments characterized by highly matrixed organizations, cultural resistance to change, and product-oriented systems and businesses.

James Nichols

Consultant

  • Ryan has 30 years of experience as an analyst focused on software design, project management, and process improvement, with 20 years in the financial services industry. He has worked as a Global Business Analyst with INVESCO Retirement Plan Services and a process consultant with Northern Trust Retirement Consulting. He has also worked on government contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. State Department.

Ryan Presley

Consultant

  • With over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, Laura has established a track record of delivering impressive contributions to growth and profit in complex environments. Her extensive experience includes successfully operating companies as well as providing valuable guidance to Fortune 500 and Global 50 companies in shaping their human capital, global outsourcing, and retirement plan strategies. Her prior experience includes executive leadership positions at Ascensus, Newport Group, and Mercer. She helps organizations navigate through transformational change and execute on their vision. Her expertise includes directing strategy, while at times delving deep into details, to achieve results.

Laura Ramanis

Consultant

  • Susie is an experienced consultant with cross-functional experience in Lean Six Sigma, process improvement, program management, project leadership and change management. She has held management, Director level and VP positions at General Electric, JPMorgan and Raymond James Financial. At MCA, Susie has consulted with clients to streamline processes and deliver cost reduction strategies across Operations and Technology teams. She has developed the framework for multiple Quality programs for several teams and organizations. Her key areas of expertise include team building and relationship development while overseeing both small- and large-scale process improvement initiatives.

Susie Reyes

Consultant

  • Scott is an experienced retirement services professional who has served in various management and leadership positions with Smart USA Co., SunTrust Bank, Hewitt Associates and Northern Trust Retirement Consulting. His diverse skills and experience include fiduciary oversight, third-party management, relationship management, product strategy, operations, plan implementation, business/system requirements and financial management. This combination of skills and experience have proven to make him adept at identifying, developing and delivering unique business and retirement solutions in the most challenging of environments.

Scott Rice

Consultant

  • Gordon is a proven strategic leader with deep expertise leading large-scale initiatives and operations in the financial services industry. He has held management and director-level positions for Infosys, T. Rowe Price, Aon Consulting, Invesco, Merrill Lynch, the Hartford, and SunGard Consulting. Gordon has exemplary knowledge of retirement administration and the ability to analyze, simplify, and communicate complex solutions. His skills include product and solution design, project management, business intelligence, sales support, vendor management, offshore delivery, book migrations, and process reengineering.

Gordon Snider

Consultant

  • Ashish is a challenge driven technology leader in the Retirement and Financial Services industry delivering innovative institutional, intermediary, and individual solutions. He has deep and diverse expertise leading large-scale client focused initiatives covering technology transformation, legacy modernization, and cloud enablement. Ashish is well versed with enabling new product development, creating multi-year technology strategies, designing futuristic enterprise architectures, building engaging digital experiences, implementing intelligent process automation, and deploying data, integration, security, and hybrid cloud platforms. He has created high performing agile organizations by hiring, advancing, and retaining talent while maintaining operational excellence and improving customer focus.

Ashish Tilve

Consultant

Suzanne Weeks

Consultant

  • Suzanne is an experienced B2B and B2B2C strategic marketing professional with in-depth knowledge of the content and positioning financial services providers need to attract, retain and grow institutional relationships. She has held senior positions at Fidelity Investments and TIAA ranging from institutional proposal team management to creating insight-based B2B thought leadership. She is adept at understanding and optimizing the end-to-end client experience and using that knowledge to create marketing messages that resonate and strategies that recognize the complexities of B2B sales. Her skills include customer research, campaign strategy, content development, product marketing and message simplification.

  • Crystal has held senior leadership positions with Transamerica Life Insurance Company and TATA Consultancy Services. She is an accomplished senior operations leader with a history of management versatility, adept at adding enhanced value and producing results. Recognized as a change agent, Crystal quickly identifies opportunities and successfully implements impactful solutions. She is an experienced project leader with a proven record of accomplishment for on-time, on-budget implementations. She is known to be a valued client service and marketing partner with operational skills and credibility who assists in turning prospective clients into partners.

Crystal Wyland

Consultant

  • Snezana Zlatar advises companies on development and implementation of revenue growth strategies and operating model scalability and transformation. She works with executives on developing institutional and retail channel strategies, innovative client experience, product and advice solutions, and leading risk management practices.

    As a former Fortune 100 financial services executive with decades of experience in senior leadership roles with Fidelity Investments, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prudential and TIAA, Snezana has demonstrated expertise in leading and transforming global organizations, and significant experience in working with institutional clients, advisors, regulators and government agencies. She has served as an executive and non-executive director on corporate and not-for-profit boards and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. As a recognized industry expert, Snezana has authored thought leadership papers and has been quoted in numerous industry publications and consumer news outlets.

Snezana Zlatar

Consultant