Experience
The Principals of Chesapeake Benefit Partners, Michael Looney and Robert R. Williams, share a combined 45 years’ experience in pension administration, technology and process management and fiduciary services. Mr. Looney has worked in the defined contribution industry for 14 years, starting in plan administration before entering the consulting field, where in his 10 distinguished years has helped many benefits administration firms recognize their business needs. Mr. Looney is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Mr. Williams has a long career in investment and pension administration and for the past 17 years was a senior manager in the area of custody, pension administration, trustee and fiduciary services. He has considerable experience in advising governments and market regulators on pension development, capital market operations and pension reform. Mr. Williams retired in 2003 as Executive Vice President of State Street Corporation in Boston and is a Director and Principal of the firm.

Vision
Chesapeake Benefit Partners does not seek a large number of clients. Rather, the firm specializes in developing close relationships with a small number of client organizations whose needs span a range of technical, process and governance related functions. The firm offers specific expertise in the following areas:

• Pension administration and systems applications used in
  administration
• Investment compliance
• Trustee and fiduciary standards and processes
• Systems integration and project management
• Process design and management, both as a stand alone discipline and as part of technology applications
• Technology support to include application installation, integration, web access, process design and business contingency planning, with a particular area of expertise involving support of defined contribution pension plan administration
• Plan compliance, including staffing for temporary compliance workflow needs
• Outsourcing of plan compliance testing
• Governance and Board procedures impacting this area