Retirement Industry People Moves

Kevin Murphy Joins Broadridge as Retirement Solutions VP

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy, former head of workplace at Franklin Templeton,  joined Broadridge Financial Solutions as vice president of retirement solutions. Murphy will lead sales for Broadridge’s recently acquired fintech platform, iJoin.

The move follows Murphy’s 26 years of experience in the retirement services industry, including 14 years at Franklin Templeton.

As Broadridge’s new sales leader for iJoin, Murphy will be responsible for helping scale adoption of the platform among recordkeepers, advisers, asset managers, plan sponsors and other retirement stakeholders.

Star Mountain Capital Plucks Former Alaska Permanent Fund CEO

Angela Rodell

New York-based employee-owned investment firm Star Mountain Capital LLC announced the hiring of former Alaska Permanent Fund CEO Angela Rodell as a senior adviser.

Rodell will educate high-net-worth and institutional investors on the reasons to add lower-middle-market private credit to their portfolios, while also enhancing Star Mountain portfolio companies’ governance and leadership diversity. The firm had approximately $4.5 billion in committed capital, including debt facilities, under management as of January 31.

In her former role as CEO of Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund, where she served until 2021, Rodell modernized trade, risk and operating systems and oversaw growth in AUM to $80 billion from $50 billion.

Prior to running the Alaska Permanent Fund, Rodell joined the Alaska Department of Revenue in 2011 as commissioner and oversaw more than $100 billion in retirement and state funds.

Dorsey & Whitney Hires New Health Care Litigation Attorney

Erin Secord

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP hired for the firm’s health care litigation group in Minneapolis.

Secord joins the firm from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota, where she was an assistant U.S. attorney handling broad civil litigation, including restitution enforcement, torts, civil commitments, bankruptcy, foreclosures and affirmative fraud. Secord additionally worked on behalf of several major U.S. federal administrative agencies.

Davis Polk Names New Executive Compensation Partner

Law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced that Amanda Hines Gold has joined the firm as a partner in its executive compensation practice in New York.

Gold will be responsible for advising clients on executive compensation matters, such as designing, drafting and negotiating severance; change in control and executive employment agreements; preparing related disclosures for securities filings; and managing all executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions.

Polk joins Davis Polk from Cravath, where she was a partner in the executive compensation and benefits practice.

Employee Fiduciary Hires 2 New Retirement Plan Leaders

Employee Fiduciary LLP, a 401(k) recordkeeper and third-party administrator, announced the addition of Jack Moody as regional sales director and Mark Nicholas as vice president of ERISA and regulatory strategy.

Moody joins with a decade of experience in recordkeeping, as well as trust and custody services. At Employee Fiduciary, he will be responsible for expanding relationships within the adviser community.

Nicholas brings three decades of experience leading retirement service organizations in regulatory compliance, fiduciary best practices and automation, with a focus on small and midsize employers.

Employee Fiduciary was founded in 2004, is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, and serves more than 5,000 businesses and approximately 140,000 participants nationwide.