SIMONE L. ROCKSTROH
President and Treasurer

Mrs. Rockstroh is President and Treasurer of Carday Associates, Inc. She started her career in employee benefits in 1969 in the Pension Department of Carday Associates. Since that time, she has worked for Home Life Insurance Company and served as office manager with Abraham and Axelrod, Inc., a firm specializing in benefit programs for professional corporations.

Upon her return to Carday Associates in 1980, Mrs. Rockstroh has gained experience in all aspects of Carday's business and operations. She has served as Assistant General Manager and was tasked in 1982 with organizing the Carday branch office in Washington, D.C. Since 1984, she has worked as an Account Executive on several large Carday accounts, including Carday's national accounts, and is currently serving as President of the Carday Board of Directors. She is a member of the Administrators Advisory Committee of the National Coordinating Committee of Multi-employer Plans and the Executive Director of the Health Care Cost Containment Corporation of the Mid-Atlantic Region. Mrs. Rockstroh is Secretary of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plan's Board of Directors, and is serving on the Strategic Initiative Steering Committee and Corporate Board. She has served on Administrators, Educational Program, Research and Coalition Committees.

Mrs. Rockstroh is certified as an EMT and serves as Treasurer of the Lisbon Volunteer Fire Company. She also serves as a Board of Director of Elizabeth Seton High School.

 

 

CHRISTOPHER E. BRECHT
Vice President and Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Brecht joined Carday Associates in 1995 as the Operations Manager. He has worked as an administrator for Taft-Hartley Multi-employer Funds since 1991. Mr. Brecht graduated from Radford University with a B.B.A. in accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Brecht currently serves as Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for Carday Associates.

Prior to joining Carday Associates, Inc., he served as Assistant Fund Administrator for the UMWA/BCOA Training and Education Fund.

 

RENEÉ PARENTI
Vice President and Account Executive

Mrs. Parenti joined Carday in 1992 as Assistant to the Senior Vice President. She is a 1982 graduate of Jefferson Technical with a certificate in Business Data Accounting. Prior to joining Carday Associates, Inc. Mrs. Parenti was involved in credit analysis and collections for a Fortune 500 company and provided administrative support for a construction management firm in its Pharmaceutical and Water Purifications Divisions. Since joining Carday Associates, she has been promoted to Assistant Account Executive and is currently an Account Executive. Mrs. Parenti was promoted to Vice President in 1997.

 

MARY JANE DE BATTISTA
Vice President & Manager of Milwaukee Area Offices

Mary Jane began her career at Carday in 1975 working as an assistant to the Account Executive. In 1981, she took over as Account Executive to several client Funds. Since that time, Carday added several new client funds and opened two more offices in the Milwaukee area with Mary Jane serving as the Administrative Manager of eleven varied Taft-Hartley Trusts and managing the local offices.

Before joining Carday, Mary Jane worked for several years as an executive in the automotive industry distributing auto glass for Ford Motor Company in the Midwest. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee majoring in Business Administration and is currently working toward completion of her C.E.B.S. Degree.

 

SUSAN GUNYON
Vice President and Operations Manager

Mrs. Gunyon joined Carday Associates in 1987, having worked in the accounting field for more than 10 years. She started in the Accounting Department and was later promoted to the Accounting Department Supervisor. In 2001 she was named the Operations Manager for Carday. Mrs. Gunyon was promoted to Vice President in 2002.