Total Rewards

Malinda Riley works with clients to address a full range of total remuneration and employee benefits challenges.  From day to day issues to long term strategic planning, Malinda partners with her clients to meet their business needs.  Her expertise centers on the design and analysis of benefit and total remuneration programs. 

Malinda understands the employee benefits challenges facing clients today and develops solutions to address escalating costs, administrative inefficiency and employee education. Increasingly, she works with clients across all industry sectors to ensure they have the right mix of compensation and benefit programs that fit the needs and objectives of the organization while maintaining cost and market competitiveness. 

Malinda’s expertise includes the following:

• Analysis of competitiveness, design, and cost effectiveness of clients total remuneration programs, including in depth analysis of benefits as well as impact analysis of significant plan design changes on total compensation mix
• Analysis of competitiveness and design of executive retirement plans and perquisites
• Comparison of the compensation structure, incentive plan design and benefit plan designs against the organization’s Total Remuneration philosophy, and
• Health & welfare and Retirement plan design.

David Scott is the Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at DISH Network in Englewood, Colorado.

DISH Network is a connectivity company that has been a disruptive force in the pay TV industry since 1980 and is now planning to disrupt the wireless industry by launching the United States’ first standalone 5G broadband network. 

David leads the Global Human Resources team, with accountability to deliver the human capital to achieve DISH’s business aspirations.  Since joining DISH in 2018, he has driven a full HR revolution, positioning the organization for significant growth as they prepare to enter new business lines. In addition to HR, he oversees other aspects of team member experience, including real estate, construction, travel, and corporate dining.

David began his professional career at Walmart directly after college.  He held levels of increasing responsibility in most HR disciplines through his 20 years in the Company.  David helped form the then-fledgling HR organization, transforming the hiring, diversity and employment practices during his time, as well as leading all major business partner functions. When he left the retail giant, he was serving as the SVP of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness.  David is a graduate of the University of Florida (go Gators!) with a degree in Business.

Mark Lam is Vice President, Compliance at Assurance, specializing in creating highly personalized client relationships through consistent communication regarding legislative and regulatory issues. He is responsible for a wide variety of activities, including supporting internal staff and clients with their compliance-related questions and working with Assurance staff on internal compliance projects. Additionally, Mark delivers seminars and webinars on topics that span the complex web of employee benefit regulations, such as Health Care Reform, ERISA, HIPAA, IRS, DOL, EEOC, and other federal and state employee benefit regulations.  

Carol Kivler, MS (Human Resource Education), CSP, CMT is a nationally recognized professional speaker, author, international executive coach /corporate consultant and President of Kivler Communications. Carol is also a passionate and tireless mental health advocate. She is the Founder and President of Courageous Recovery, Inc. a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote a mental wellness movement by advancing education, advocating nationally, and eliminating stigma surrounding mental illness. Carol is the survivor of four bouts of treatment resistant depression, has sustained recovery for the past 16 years, and lives a personally fulfilling and professionally thriving life.

Bert Alicea is a Licensed Psychologist with over 27 years of experience in the EAP field. Bert specializes in conducting trainings locally and on a national level on topics including harassment awareness; violence prevention; drug free workplace; DOT compliance training; and supervisor EAP awareness training. Bert also has a specialization with executive coaching; conflict mediation; and management and supervisor consultations in assisting with difficult workplace situations. Bert obtained a Masters of Arts in Industrial Psychology from West Chester University, West Chester, Pa., and he also has his Bachelors of Science in Psychology from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. He is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) and a U.S. Department of Transportation qualified Substance Abuse Professional.

Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media. 

Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.

He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.

In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society.  He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.

Pamela Chan is Project Director of Human Insights at Prosperity Now, a national non-profit that ensures pathways to financial stability and prosperity for everyone in the U.S.  Ms. Chan works with organizations serving economically disadvantaged communities conduct market research and create human-centered services. Prior to Prosperity Now, Ms. Chan studied how financial products, programs and regulations affect lower-income consumers and managed a national workplace savings pilot at New America. She also advised Fortune 500 companies on new product development at the Nielsen Company. She holds degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern Law, and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Susan Simon is a Senior Human Resources Consultant for Campus Services at Harvard University.  Working as a HR generalist for over 20 years, she developed expertise in HR disciplines such as employee relations, performance management, recruiting and training.  Currently, she is the Training Coordinator for Campus Services, concentrating on designing and implementing responsive training programs for the diverse community of management and service & trades unionized staff.  Susan spearheaded the effort to bring Working Credit’s financial wellness program to Harvard’s dining services staff.  She sits on the board of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union.  Prior to joining Harvard University, she designed playgrounds for schools, community groups and municipalities. Susan holds a Master’s Degree in Leadership Development from Wheelock College.

As founder of Corporate Advisors Group, Kevin Mahoney joined Raymond James as a Managing Director, Investments and Senior Institutional Consultant in 2015. Kevin brings over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry. His areas of expertise include fiduciary risk management, ERISA issues, qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, liability driven investing, philanthropic services, employee education and communication. 

Kevin led the launch of SHRM 401(k) Solutions by Raymond James. SHRM 401(k) Solutions by Raymond James offers fiduciary investment advisory services to SHRM’s ecosystem.  We help employees make meaningful progress towards their financial goals and employers meet their fiduciary responsibilities.

Josh Bersin founded Bersin & Associates (now Bersin by Deloitte) in 2004 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning, leadership, talent management, and HR technology. Josh is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted on talent management topics in key media, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, BBC Radio, CBS Radio and National Public Radio. He is a popular blogger for Forbes.com, a leading LinkedIn influencer, and has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine. Josh spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM.  Josh's education includes a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.