Bill Ryan

Bill is NEPC’s Head of Defined Contribution Solutions. Bill is focused on designing and implementing innovative Defined Contribution (DC) solutions tailored to each plan sponsors’ unique objectives. Bill’s strategic leadership drives the way the organization services DC plan sponsors and optimize participant outcomes. Bill is an Executive Committee member for the DC Institutional Investment Association (DCIIA) and the Chair of DCIIA Investment Policy & Design Committee. He has been a Pensions & Investments (P&I) Eddy Award Winner, a P&I Eddy Award Judge (2016-2021), a DCIIA/P&I Innovator & Excellence Awards Judge (2017-2021), the P&I DC Investment Summit Chair (2016 -2021), and the P&I Retirement Income Summit Chair (2019-2020).Bill regularly speaks at conferences and is frequently quoted in the press. In 2020, Bill was named a Power Broker within Employee Benefits by Risk & Insurance magazine.

Prior to joining NEPC, Bill was the Head of Aon’s North America DC Multi-Asset Solutions team, which included four DC subject matter expert teams: the DC Manager Research team the Custom DC Solutions team, which was responsible for over $500 billion of bespoke DC solutions; the DC Fund Management team, and the Retirement Income team which helped clients evaluate offering DC retirement income solutions. In these roles, Bill advised 21 of Pensions & Investments’ (P&I) top 100 DC plan sponsors entrusted with over $800 billion in retirement savings for 60 million participants.

Before he was a consultant, Bill was a plan sponsor. As a Director within the University of California Regents’ Office of the Chief Investment Officer, he was responsible for overseeing UC’s $20 billion DC program’s investments, including a $5 billion custom target date fund series and multi asset funds which invested in private equity.

Bill earned his B.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from the University of California, Irvine. Bill holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designations.