Joe Griffin is a Senior Consulting Actuary with Foster & Foster, Inc.  Joe has 23 years of experience serving governmental retirement plans, including topics such as actuarial valuations, plan redesign studies, accounting under GASB standards, plan experience studies and assumption/method recommendations, actuarial audits, and forecast/budgeting.  Joe has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University with concentration in Actuarial Science.  He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary under ERISA, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.  Joe is a former president of the Atlanta Actuarial Club and is a frequent speaker at both national and regional conferences. Joe currently serves on the Education Committee for the Georgia Association of Public Pension Trustees and has been drafting model education sessions for the new education requirements in the State of Georgia.  He most recently spoke at conferences for the Georgia Association of Public Pension Trustees (GAPPT), Georgia Government Finance Officers Association (GGFOA), Florida Government Finance Officers Association (FGFOA), Florida Public Pension Trustees Association Conference (FPPTA), the Louisiana Trustee Educational Council Investment Education Symposium, and the South East Public Employee Retirement Systems Forum.

Sara Carlson joined Foster & Foster in 2011 and is currently a consulting actuary to over 60 governmental retirement plans in Florida. Sara’s experience includes topics such as actuarial valuations, plan redesign studies, accounting under GASB standards, statutory requirement disclosures, plan experience studies and assumption/method recommendations, actuarial audits, forecasting, and individual retirement benefit calculations. Sara has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Florida and a Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of North Florida. Sara is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary under ERISA, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.