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Name
Bob Melia
Title
Executive Director, Institutional Retirement Income Council (IRIC)
Bio
In early 2017, Bob assumed the role of Executive Director of IRIC where Bob leads a group of Retirment Plan Advisors, DC executives, DC service providers and investment firms that seek to deliver institutional retirement income products and income solutions through the DC system thereby delivering additional security and additional income to plan participants. IRIC is a not-for-profit organizataion manged by industry professionals dedicated to delivering retirement security throught the DC system by developing best practices regarding retirement income, working with regulators and legislators that promote institutional income solutions, generating innovation & thought leadership that fosters retirment income products within DC plans.
Prior to assuming the Executive Director role at IRIC, Bob was Vice President of Product Development for the Retirement Plan Services Product and Solutions Management team at Lincoln Financial Group for 11 years. In this role, Bob was responsible for identifying applicable trends, regulatory changes, legislative changes, competitive product developments, plan sponsor needs and participant needs as they affect Lincoln’s Retirement Plan Services business and the employer-sponsored retirement plan industry. Bob was responsible for developing the Lincoln Retirement Plan Services product strategy that creates or repositions solutions in response to the changing marketplace.
Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts and an MBA in Business Economics from Drexel University. He speaks on a variety of subjects at various industry conferences and has published several articles on the retirement plan industry, plan design, fiduciary issues and other topics and trends.
Prior to assuming the Executive Director role at IRIC, Bob was Vice President of Product Development for the Retirement Plan Services Product and Solutions Management team at Lincoln Financial Group for 11 years. In this role, Bob was responsible for identifying applicable trends, regulatory changes, legislative changes, competitive product developments, plan sponsor needs and participant needs as they affect Lincoln’s Retirement Plan Services business and the employer-sponsored retirement plan industry. Bob was responsible for developing the Lincoln Retirement Plan Services product strategy that creates or repositions solutions in response to the changing marketplace.
Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts and an MBA in Business Economics from Drexel University. He speaks on a variety of subjects at various industry conferences and has published several articles on the retirement plan industry, plan design, fiduciary issues and other topics and trends.
