Greg Carpenter, Chairman & CEO, has more than 20 years of experience as a leader in the financial services industries. Prior to founding Employee Fiduciary Corporation, Carpenter served as President and CEO of one of the fastest growing third-party defined-contribution record-keeping companies, leading that company from its very early stages to profitability. Carpenter also served as Vice President, Mutual Funds, and Vendor Relations Manager for Dain Rauscher Corporation. At Dain, Carpenter was responsible for all mutual fund products, including marketing promotion and due diligence on fund vendors. He also developed the preferred mutual fund vendor program and managed the firm’s mutual fund wrap products. From 1990 to 1996 Carpenter was Director of Pension Investments with Northwest Airlines, Inc. where he directed investments for $5 billion of defined benefit,
401(k) and employee stock plan assets.

Carpenter began his career as a consultant and CPA with Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte Haskins & Sells. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an MBA in finance from The University of Chicago.

Mike Palmer, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, oversees plan consulting, conversion and compliance for Employee Fiduciary. Previously, Palmer served as manager of accounting and administration at Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, managing a team responsible for servicing 350+ retirement plans, ranging in size from 3 to 3,000 participants. Palmer also oversaw ERISA compliance and reporting for corporate retirement accounts at Hancock Bank and served as lead conversion analyst for Daily Access Corporation. Palmer began his career as an auditor for the Mobile County (AL) Public School System.

In 2006, Palmer was selected to serve on the Employee Benefits Technical Resource Panel, providing governance and technical support on retirement plan issues to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), which is the largest national association of Certified Public Accountants, with a membership of more than 200,000.

Palmer is a CPA, a Qualified Pension Administrator and a Qualified 401(k) Administrator. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA from The University of South Alabama.

Parker Payson, Executive Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs, is in charge of proposal creation and plan analysis for Employee Fiduciary. Since 2004, Payson and his team have helped several hundred employers, trustees and advisors slash fees in company retirement plans. Previously, Payson worked on national policy issues—such as deregulation of the telephone industry, social security and other entitlements, campaign finance reform and foreign aid—for more than 15 years. He is a former journalist and trained statistician. Payson taught statistics to municipal managers of the City of Chicago. He helped the Maytag Corporation improve operations and international sales. He addressed the National Press Club, lectured for the Smithsonian and spoke at the Chautauqua Institute. Payson wrote and produced a national, prime-time television series for PBS and served as a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. He previously worked as a communications consultant for the Oracle Corporation.

Payson holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of the South and an MBA in statistics, finance and policy studies from The University of Chicago.