Special Guests

Comedian, Actor, Radio Personality, Television Host and NY Times best-selling Author

Adam Carolla

Coming soon

Anthony Freda

Artist, Editorial Illustrator & Activist

Renowned visual artist and based in New York, Freda works as an editorial illustrator, visual political activist, and as part of the permanent faculty of the fashion Institute of technology in New York. In addition to many mainstream clients, such as Time, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and the New York Times, he also contributes to many alternative news, websites and publications. In 2006 the Village Voice commissioned Freda to illustrate a story about people who challenged the official 911 narrative and the artwork has since become part of the permanent collection of the US National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. His imagery is thought provoking and at times provocative.

Jenny Johnson

President, Chief Executive Officer - Franklin Templeton

Jenny Johnson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Franklin Templeton. In a career spanning over 35 years, she has been a key driver of the company's transformation to what is now one of the largest global investment managers with $1.6 trillion in assets under management.
Ms. Johnson held leadership roles in all major divisions of the business-including investment management, distribution, technology, operations and wealth management-before becoming CEO in February 2020. She has led the evolution of the business in recent years, further diversifying the company's investment capabilities and solutions for clients through key strategic acquisitions and investments.
Ms. Johnson has received many recognitions, including being named to Forbes' "World's 100 Most Powerful Women" list in 2023 and 2022, as well as its "50 Over 50" list in 2022. She has been named to Barron's list of the "100 Most Influential Women in US Finance" for five consecutive years, most recently in 2024. She was also named to Pensions & Investments' inaugural class of "Influential Women in Institutional Investing" in 2023.
Ms. Johnson serves on a variety of boards, including the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the NYSE Board Advisory Council and, in 2023, was appointed to the US-Brazil CEO Forum. Additionally, Ms. Johnson is a board member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Foundation, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Catalyst. Previously, she has served on several other boards, including Stanford's Lucille Packard Children's Hospital and the San Francisco Giants.
Ms. Johnson earned her B.A. in economics from the University of California at Davis.

Eric Maddox

Author, Motivation Speaker & Consultant

Eric Maddox is an author, motivational speaker, and consultant who teaches audiences worldwide in the art of Empathy Based Listening. He is the author of the book Mission: Black List No.1 (Harper Collins, 2008) which details his lead in the search and capture of Saddam Hussein.
After graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1994, Eric enlisted in the U.S. Army where he was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, a jumpmaster, and graduate of Ranger School. He then reenlisted in 1997 as a Chinese Mandarin linguist and interrogator. In 2003, he was sent to Tikrit, Iraq where he joined a Delta Force team who was searching for high value targets on the infamous Deck of Cards. After five months and over 300 interrogations, Eric was able to track down and eventually give the team the exact location of the spider hole in which Saddam hid. For this, he was awarded the Legion of Merit, the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement, the Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Award, and the Bronze Star.
Following the capture of Saddam, Eric was hired as the first ever civilian interrogator by the Defense Intelligence Agency where he went on to conduct over 2,700 interrogations of prisoners from 25 different countries.
Having served in the U.S. Army and Defense Intelligence Agency for 20 years, Eric now devotes his work full time to teaching what he learned during that time to audiences worldwide—the art of Empathy Based Listening.

Moderator

Nevin Adams

Thought Leader & Author

Now “retired” (whatever that means), Nevin is the former Chief Content Officer and Head of Retirement Research for the American Retirement Association. One of the retirement industry’s most prolific writers, these days he’s “retired”, which means he writes less, but continues to keep his eye on developments in, and threats to, the nation’s private retirement system. In addition to helping guide the agenda development for the NAPA 401(k) Summit, he’s also the “Nevin” in the Nevin & Fred podcast (along with renowned ERISA attorney Fred Reish), offering irreverent, but relevant perspectives on the critical issues confronting plan sponsors, advisors, and retirement industry professionals.
Prior to his time at the ARA, he was the Employee Benefits Research Institute’s Director of Education and External Relations, Co-Director of EBRI’s Center for Research on Retirement Income and Director of the American Savings Education Council, and prior to that spent a dozen years as Global Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine and PLANSPONSOR.com, as well as PLANADVISER and PLANSPONSOR Europe magazines. He was the originator, creator, writer and publisher of PLANSPONSOR.com’s NewsDash. He began his retirement services career at Northern Trust in Chicago, where he later served in a variety of management roles, culminating in the development of a proprietary recordkeeping platform, and at Wachovia Bank, leading their defined contribution/recordkeeping businesses.
He has been honored three times by the National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators (NAGDCA) with their Media Recognition Award (in 2002, 2004 and 2013), and has regularly been noted as one of the Most Influential People in Defined Contribution by the 401kWire, most recently ranked #7 of the top 100. In 2023 his contributions to the nation’s private retirement system were acknowledged with ASPPA’s Harry T. Eidson Founder’s Award. He graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and after a number of years working with retirement plans, also received his JD from DePaul University.