Kathy Ledford has joined Buck Consultants’ Atlanta office as Principal in the Compensation practice, focusing on Sales Management Consulting.
Ledford most recently served with Sibson as Senior Vice President. She previously was a Principal with The Alexander Group. Ledford has more than 15 years of consulting experience developing and implementing sales effectiveness programs, aligning sales resources with market opportunities, and improving sales productivity. Prior to consulting, she was a Director of Investor Relations for a development stage pharmaceutical company.
Ledford has spent a large portion of her consulting time working with large multi-line pharmaceutical companies as well as specialty and start-up pharma companies. At Buck, Ledford will continue to concentrate on this industry sector nationally and expand the sales management consulting offering in the southeast region.
Ledford received her MBA from the Yale School of Management. She holds a BA from Albion College and a BMSc from Emory University.
Jennifer Beattie has joined Buck Consultants’ Atlanta office as a Director in the Retirement practice.
Beattie comes to Buck from Towers Perrin, where she served as a Consultant in the Atlanta office. She also worked in Towers Perrinís Toronto office for more than two years. Beattie has more than 15 years of consulting experience serving a wide range of clients. Her expertise includes both U.S. and Canadian regulatory environments, defined benefit plan actuarial services, pension and postretirement expense issues, executive benefits, and deferred compensation.
Beattie received her bachelorís degree in mathematics from McGill University (Montreal). She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and an Enrolled Actuary.
David Pitts has joined Buck Consultants’ Secaucus office as a Principal in the Retirement practice.
Pitts had served with Mellon Human Resources & Investor Solutions as the Market Leader for Connecticut. Prior to that, he worked at Mercer Human Resources Consulting as a Client Developer, where his responsibilities included generating profitable, recurring revenue from new clients. He previously was a Consulting Actuary with Towers Perrin. Pitts has 18 years of consulting experience with expertise in pensions, health care, compensation, outsourcing, and employee communications.
Pitts received his bachelorís degree in mathematics from Tufts University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Buck Consultants, an ACS company, is a company in human resource and benefits consulting with more than 1,500 professionals worldwide. Founded in 1916 to advise clients in establishing and funding some of the nationís first public and private retirement programs, Buck is an innovator in the areas of retirement benefits, health and welfare programs, human resource management, compensation and employee communication.
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