Tom Ryan

Current

• Vice President, Retirement Services at Fidelity Investments

Past

• HR Specialist at Merrill Lynch
• Administrator, teacher, coach at The Hun School of Princeton

Education

• Princeton University
• Liverpool High School

Connections

80 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Tom Ryan’s Summary

Top-rated performer who uses teaching and coaching experience to drive results and foster productive collaboration in financial services/benefit administration. Proven success in staff development, process improvement, and initiative management. Advanced capabilities in executive communication, strategy creation, and organizational restructuring.

Tom Ryan’s Specialties:

Benefit plan administration, product management, product development, capital management, organizational redesign and development, executive communications, human resources, strategic planning, education, training

Tom Ryan’s Experience

• Vice President, Retirement Services

  Fidelity Investments

  (Privately Held; FMR; Financial Services industry)

  September 2000 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  Product Management and Development: Created new functional group and managed staff of internal product consultants responsible for execution and ongoing support of product strategy for Defined Contribution, Defined Benefit, and Health Savings business lines. Collaborated with systems, operations, and client groups on solution design and rollout strategy for products. Product Manager for multi-practice integrated offerings. Drove enterprise-wide initiatives to identify cost reductions for product implementations (50-70%) and comprehensively define standard offering.
  
  Process owner of the FHRS Product Development Process, modeled after industry standard Stage-GateTM. Managed staff responsible for execution of all phases of process and capital budget of approximately $130 million.
  
  Other roles: VP Sales Operations, Director of Strategic Planning

• HR Specialist

  Merrill Lynch

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

  June 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  Employee relations specialist; supported 318 branch offices, 13,000 employees.

• Administrator, teacher, coach

  The Hun School of Princeton

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  September 1992 — June 1999 (6 years 10 months)

  Director of Residential life, middle school teacher, varsity football coach

Tom Ryan’s Education

• Princeton University

  A.B. , Psychology , 1988 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Varsity Football - Dr. Harry McPhee Award, All-Ivy League Honorable Mention

• Liverpool High School

  1984 — 1988

Additional Information

Tom Ryan’s Groups:

•    The Hun School of Princeton
•    Fidelity Investments Networking Group
•    Princeton Class of 1992
•    Princeton Football Association

Tom Ryan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• reference requests
• getting back in touch