Trina Gross, serving as Chairman and CEO of Acuff & Associates, is a founder with the firm since its inception. Trina is responsible for the executive oversight of Acuff’s 40+ professionals and 1,100+ qualified retirement plans. With career experience in the retirement and consulting field, she has a vast knowledge of plan design, consulting with employers on all aspects of their plans, and complex administration. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Pension Administrators, and served as President for the 2019-2020 term. She is dedicated to the betterment of the retirement industry while leading the firm.
With more than 20 years of experience in retirement plan administration, Jennifer Duff leads the Defined Contribution Administration Team at Acuff & Associates. Her experience ranges from working with a national firm in the defined benefit area to managing a team of plan analysts providing all administrative services for Acuff. Her capabilities in focusing her team on excellent client service are surpassed by none.
Matthew Bravo is an Enrolled Actuary with 18 years of experience advising companies in the design, compliance, funding and administration of their retirement programs including qualified cash balance and traditional defined benefit plans. With prior large plan experience (plans of up to 100,000 participants), he now focuses his efforts to deliver customized retirement solutions for small to mid-size organizations and individuals. He enjoys helping clients find retirement plan solutions that are easy to understand and result in straightforward financial solutions.
Michael Baron serves as Regional Director of Sales with over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. Michael’s passion is working with financial advisors helping them win, manage and retain the business of their institutional clients. With the insight he has gained, he is considered a great practice management resource. Michael enjoys working with all types of advisory practices from groups dealing exclusively with retirement plans to advisors looking to make retirement plans a piece of their marketing efforts.
As Implementation Manager, Ashley is highly motivated by the desire to assist Acuff & Associate’s clients for the purpose of making sure a strong network of communication is established. She is responsible for ensuring that each client’s plan is running smoothly. She has more than eight years experience in retirement plan administration, including generating plan documents, compliance testing and conversion processing.
Steve Jones is a Relationship Manager with 40+ years of experience bringing creative solutions to the most complicated of retirement plans. He believes that the key to a successful plan is to properly manage it from top to bottom; making sure the plan first fits the needs of the employer, and then staying on top of the details. He also mentors the staff as a Technical Resource.
John Russell is a Relationship Manager and Team Manager with more than 25 years of experience in retirement plan administration and consulting, While specializing in defined contribution plans, John’s experience has also included work on defined benefit plans as well.
John enjoys helping clients navigate through the somewhat confusing world of retirement plans. He believes in working together with clients and their service providers to provide the best retirement planning for their employees.
With more than 20 years of experience, Pamela Leitschuh serves as Controller and Human Resources Director with Acuff & Associates. Along with her responsibilities as Controller, Pamela manages the Asset, Distribution and Administrative Teams. She is instrumental in all things “financial” for the firm.
Heather Mursch has over 20 years of experience in the retirement plan industry, with a high level of expertise in peer review. She leads Acuff’s Peer Review Team, working closely with her team to deliver quality results to each client. Heather and her team are dedicated to providing client calculations that maximize efficiency, ensuring the best outcome tailored to each request. Her contributions ensure each plan is run profitably for each Acuff client.
Ginger is a Relationship Manager and RM Team Leader with 30 plus years of experience in defined contribution retirement plan administration and consulting. Ginger enjoys the challenge of working with her clients to solve the puzzles in the ever- changing world of retirement plans. She enjoys leading her team through coaching and sharing her experience to provide excellent service to their clients.