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Executive Director: Dennis Simmons

Dennis Simmons is the Executive Director for CIEBA, the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets.

Prior to joining CIEBA in 2017, Dennis was a senior Principal with Vanguard, working with the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based investment firm for over 20 years. At Vanguard, Dennis served in many policy-making and leadership roles, including heading Vanguard’s retirement savings legal and government policy efforts for the Vanguard International Division, heading Vanguard’s ERISA Legal and Fiduciary Services Group, and the Vanguard Strategic Retirement Consulting Group. Dennis also served as lead counsel on several employee benefits committees responsible for the design and administration of Vanguard’s global retirement and health and welfare programs.

Dennis has served on various committees for important retirement savings industry groups over the years, including serving as Chair of both global and US retirement savings and pension committees. Dennis is also a past member of the U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, the council established under federal law to give recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Labor on important policy issues that affect retirement savings and health and welfare plans.

Dennis earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in business administration from Roanoke College. He also earned his J.D., cum laude, from Widener University School of Law.

 

Associate Executive Director: Anna Paredes

Anna Paredes is the Associate Executive Director of CIEBA, (Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets), where she works alongside Dennis Simmons to support CIEBA members, and manage member communications, logistics, and other   initiatives that impact that organization. 

 Prior to joining CIEBA in 2026, Anna served as Manager, Membership Development at the Consumer Technology Association, best known for producing CES.

Anna graduated from Grand Valley State University in 2020 and earned her MBA from Louisiana State University Shreveport. 

 

General Counsel: Michael Kreps

Michael P. Kreps is a principal at Groom Law Group, where he counsels employers, plan sponsors, financial institutions, trade associations, and coalitions on retirement, health, tax, and employment matters.  Mr. Kreps specializes in issues relating to public policy, fiduciary responsibility, and plan funding and restructuring.  

Previously, Mr. Kreps served as the Senior Pensions and Employment Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions from the 110th through the 114th Congresses.  In that role, he managed all aspects of the Committee’s retirement agenda and had primary staff responsibility for pension legislation, including the pension investment provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the funding stabilization and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation reform provisions of the MAP-21 Act of 2012, the Pension Relief Act of 2010, and the CSEC Pension Flexibility Act.  He also led the Committee’s oversight of regulatory activities involving employee benefit plans.