Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsHenry founded Limeade in 2006, and has led the company from an idea in his basement to a high-growth, industry-leading SaaS health, well-being & performance improvement company serving some of the greatest companies in the world. Henry focuses on making Limeade a place where great people want to come do their best work. He also does his share of evangelizing, and is a popular and irreverent writer and speaker at leading national conferences.\nBefore founding Limeade, Henry was a VP of Product Management at an enterprise software company and a product and marketing leader at Intuit, where he launched a number of successful new multi-million dollar businesses under the QuickBooks brand. Before earning his MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management with an emphasis in technology marketing, Henry toiled in the econometrics and professional basketball trades.\nHe graduated cum laude in Literature and Economics at Claremont-McKenna College, where he was two-time basketball captain, proud winner of the Hustle Award, and a Phi Beta Kappa inductee.
Michael Taylor, MD, FACP, board-certified internist, is chief medical officer at Truven Health Analytics.
William F. Sweetnam joined Groom in May, 2005 and he co-chairs the Policy and Legislation Group. Before joining Groom, Mr. Sweetnam was the Benefits Tax Counsel in the Office of the Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Benefits Tax Counsel is the principal legal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to all aspects of employee benefits taxation and related matters, including pensions, health care and executive compensation. While at Treasury, Mr. Sweetnam led the teams that provided guidance for Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements, the preliminary guidance regarding executive deferred compensation arrangements under Section 409A and the regulatory and legislative proposals regarding cash balance pension plans. In addition, Mr. Sweetnam was part of the Bush Administration's task force to restructure the defined benefit plan funding system (which resulted in the Pension Protection Act of 2006), and he testified before Congressional Committee on behalf of the Administration's proposal. Prior to his services at the Treasury Department, Mr. Sweetnam was Tax Counsel for benefits matters on the Majority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, under the chairmanship of Senator William V. Roth of Delaware. \n\n\nHonors & Distinctions\n\n - Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel\n\nPrevious Experience\n\n - Benefits Tax Counsel, Office of the Benefits Tax Counsel, Department of the Treasury\n - Tax Counsel, Majority Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance\n - Technical Consultant, Towers Perrin\n - Chief Counsel, Compensation and Benefits, Sun Company, Inc. (Sunoco)\n\nProfessional Affiliations\n\n\n - American Bar Association\n - Employers Council on Flexible Compensation\n - Co-Chair, ALI-ABA Program on Pension, Profit Sharing, Welfare and Other Compenation Plans\n - Co-Chair, ALI-ABA Annual Fall and Spring Employee Benefits Video Update\n - Editorial Board, Journal of Retirement Planning\n - American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
Frank Palmieri is an attorney who limits his practice to tax and ERISA employee benefit and employment related matters. Prior to founding Palmieri & Eisenberg, Mr. Palmieri headed the employee benefits practice for a major accounting firm in the Philadelphia Region, was a partner in a New Jersey law firm which specialized in employee benefit and labor matters, worked for a major Philadelphia law firm, and began his employee benefits career working in New York City. \n\nMr. Palmieri has extensive experience in both tax and ERISA employee benefit matters, including the establishment, operation and termination of qualified retirement plans for public and privately held companies; implementation and review of executive compensation and equity compensation programs; nonqualified deferred compensation plans for taxable and tax-exempt organizations; healthcare cost containment and design of Section 125 cafeteria plans; HIPAA compliance; U.S. and foreign compensation programs; mergers and acquisitions; retiree medical and COBRA issues; and employee benefits litigation. As a partner in a law firm specializing in employee benefit and labor matters he was responsible for benefit issues relating to corporate downsizings, union negotiations, preparation of employee handbooks, and a broad range of tax and human resource matters. Mr. Palmieri has over 27 years of experience in applying tax, ERISA, labor, employment and insurance laws to complex transactions, and helping employers understand the ramifications of their decisions. \n\nMr. Palmieri is a Lecturer at the Rutgers Center for Management Development, and is a frequent national lecturer for employer and professional organizations. He writes a monthly "Benefits Law" column in Employee Benefit News and previously authorized a similar column from 1994 through 1998. He is also Editorial Advisor for a weekly Legal Alert for Employee Benefit News. Mr. Palmieri's other accomplishments include writing a Chapter on "Qualified Retirement Plans" for the Corporate Controller's Manual; co-authoring a book entitled "Complying with the Family & Medical Leave Act: A Detailed Guide"; authoring Chapters for the Employment Law Handbook and publishing numerous articles in various publications. Mr. Palmieri is Vice Chair of the Qualified Retirement Plan Committee of the American Bar Association Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section (2008 to present). Mr. Palmieri previously chaired the American Bar Association, Tax Section, Subcommittees on Section 125 Plans, State Regulations of Welfare Benefits, Welfare Plan Design Issues and COBRA (1993 to 2007). Mr. Palmieri served on both the Board of Directors and the Personnel Committee of the Family and Children's Services of Central New Jersey, Inc., a not-for-profit entity. Mr. Palmieri has been selected as one of the Best Employee Benefits attorneys in the States of New Jersey and New York every year since 1995, has been recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer in the field of employee benefits law, and has been named one of the Best Employee Benefits Lawyers in America since 1995. Mr. Palmieri is also a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.\n \nMr. Palmieri is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law and has an advanced law degree in taxation (LL.M.) from New York University School of Law. He is also a graduate of St. John's University College of Business Administration and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Palmieri is licensed to practice law in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. \n
Benavidez is a manager of Aspen Advisors, which is part of The Chartis Group, a management consulting firm dedicated to healthcare. She is experienced in revenue cycle management and has more than 30 years of health information management experience in a large integrated healthcare system.





