Eric Keller / Paul Hastings LLP
Mr. Keller is a partner in Paul Hastings LLP’s Employment practice and represents clients in all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits law. In this regard, he advises clients regarding tax, labor (including ERISA), financial accounting, securities, and litigation issues. He designs and prepares plan documents and participant communications, negotiates service-provider contracts, and assists clients in developing and operating efficient and prudent plan administration practices.

Andrea M. Gehman / Paul Hastings LLP
Ms. Gehman is an associate in Paul Hastings LLP’s Washington, D.C. office where she focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation law. She regularly advises public and private companies regarding their tax-qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, deferred compensation plans and equity-based compensation arrangements. In addition, her practice involves working on compensation, benefits and employment issues associated with business transactions which includes due diligence and negotiating and preparing contract provisions.

A substantial portion of Ms. Gehman’s practice is devoted to the design and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans and welfare plans where she designs and prepares plan documents and participant communications, negotiates service-provider contracts, prepares required plan filings, and advises clients on a broad range of employment and benefit matters, including HIPAA privacy compliance, COBRA, fiduciary liability and developing strategies to develop and operate efficient and prudent plan administration practices. Before practicing law, Ms. Gehman was the Senior Benefits Manager for a large national law firm for seven years managing the retirement and welfare benefits.

Ms. Gehman earned a J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the development editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and graduated with the BNA/ABA Award for Excellence in Employment Law. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Gehman earned a B.S. from Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Paul Dennett / Senior Vice President, Health Care Reform / American Benefits Council
Mr. Dennett is senior vice president, health care reform for the American Benefits Council, a trade association based in Washington, D.C. representing primarily Fortune 500 companies that either sponsor or administer health and retirement benefits covering more than 100 million Americans. Paul joined the American Benefits Council in 1996 and previously served as the organization’s vice president for health policy. Paul directs the Council's efforts on health care reform, including as it relates to the federal standards established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Mr. Dennett graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and also holds a masters degree in public administration from the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle.