Born in Chicago, James McNamee began his career in law enforcement in 1979 as a police officer for the Village of Barrington. In 1983, Mr. McNamee was elected to the Barrington Police Pension Board as a trustee. During his term as trustee, McNamee quickly saw the need for training and education for all trustees of pension boards. Taking action, Mr. McNamee went to work to form the Illinois Police Fund Association now known as the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association.

Under Mr. McNamee's leadership, the IPPFA grew to fifty funds in its first year. Mr. McNamee had the vision to expand the IPPFA to include Unions and Teacher Funds and his efforts have dramatically expanded the association's membership. The Illinois Public Pension Fund Association has grown into the largest organization of its kind in the country with more than 450 pension funds as members.

Mr. McNamee continued to serve as a police officer and field training officer for the Village of Barrington for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2007. He continues to assist with legislative pension fund issues by supporting the Coalition Group and chairing the Pension Working Group with help of The Office of the State Treasurer. The Pension Working Group helps to review the performance of investment managers and consultants, along with helping to develop uniform standards for comparing the costs of investment services.

Mr. McNamee was instrumental in leading the push for many changes in pension board procedures and policies which helped to develop the standards under which they operate today. He was also involved in drafting and passing important legislative changes, including comprehensive investment law changes allowing for expanded investment authority to the pension boards. Along with legislative changes, Mr. McNamee helped to develop the IPPFA 457 Defined Contribution Plan and has since become a leader in benefit development for municipalities, coming up with many new programs and ideas that are now being implemented in the state.

Dave started his law enforcement career in the United States army as a military policeman. He served as a police dog handler/trainer and later as a line policeman. After serving three years he was honorably discharged in 1966. That year he became a member of the Bellwood police department. He served a short time there before moving on to a long career in law enforcement ending a more than thirty year employment at the Matteson police department, where he served as a select traffic unit accident investigator, field training officer, swat team member, a founding member of the ITOA ,Illinois tactical officers association, and a certified motorcycle officer. He quit with benefits in 2004 (retired). He has served on the IPPFA board for almost twenty years, as a director, second vice and now vice president. In his spare time he collects law enforcement memorabilia, his collection of more than ten thousand shoulder patches and over three hundred metal breast badges and other items keeps him very busy. He also is training to become a helicopter pilot. He also serves as president of the Matteson police pension fund serving since its inception in the early 1970s....he currently serves as co-chairman of the IPPFA legislative committee.

Mark became a police officer on October 31, 1977 after serving four years in the Marine Corps and had been assigned as department pilot, underwater recovery diver, field training officer, tactical officer, narcotics agent and various investigation teams. Mark has taught NIMS classes through both Illinois Fire Safety Institute and FEMA as an independent contractor. Mark retired from Rock Island Police Department in October 2010 and became Chief of Police in Coal Valley, Illinois. Mark assisted in forming a public safety dive team which meets the Class 1 FEMA dive team standards and volunteers as an instructor for public safety diving to police and fire department dive teams. His team has responded to requests for divers from ISP, and several police and fire agencies throughout Illinois and Iowa and is listed as a resource through ILEAS.

He became involved in police pensions as a trustee in 1980 and has served continuously on the Rock Island Police Pension Board until 2010. He was responsible for recruiting the Rock Island Police and Fire Pension boards to become members of the IPPFA. He is actively recruiting other Boards to join the organization.

As a Director of the IPPFA, Mark has served on the legislative committee and was Secretary / Treasurer of the IPPFA Political Action Committee. He is also the author of several articles for
the IPPFA newsletter.
Mark is married and has one son. He received an Associate degree in Law Enforcement Technology from Black Hawk College and a B.A. in Business Administration from Marycrest College. His post graduate work was completed at the University of Iowa in Business Administration and Multimedia Presentations.

Bob retired as Chief of Police from the Pekin Police Department and served as Police Pension Fund President for 23 years. He is presently serving as the retired trustee on their fund.
In 1986, the second year IPPFA was in existence, Bob was elected as IPPFA Director and resigned in 1995 as he started working as a Field Representative and Lobbyist for IPPFA through 2000. In 2008 Bob was appointed to the position of IPPFA Director and now has over 15 years with IPPFA as a Director.
 

Rick started as a police officer in January of 1988. He has worked over the last 24 years as a patrol officer, tactical officer, undercover narcotics agent, school liaison and for the past 15 years as a detective. Rick specializes in Arson investigations but has worked all types of cases. Rick is also the coordinator of Crime Stoppers of Will County. Rick was elected to the Joliet police pension board as a trustee in 1994. He was elected President of the fund in 1996 and has been the funds President ever since.

Rick lives in Joliet with his wife Phyllis and enjoys golfing and coaching High School football in his off time.

Shawn Curry started his police work in 1996 at the Woodford County Sheriff’s Office. In 2004, Mr. Curry left Woodford County to start work with the Peoria Police Department.

Mr. Curry has held various positions ranging in work as a certified correctional officer, police officer, arson investigator, elderly service officer and lead homicide investigator. He has served on past union boards for both the FOP and PBA, and he is the current president of the Peoria Pension Fund. Today, he is assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division under the Violent Crime Unit.

James "Jim" Maloney is an elected Trustee for the Chicago Policemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund. Jim is the Chairman of the Investment. Jim is also a Lieutenant on the Chicago Police Department for over thirty years, assigned to the Detective Division. Jim also serves on the Board of the Chicago Police Lieutenants Association. He was appointed to former City of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "Commission to Strengthen Chicago's Pensions", which met from 2008-2010.

He has a BS from Western Illinois University. He has a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Masters Certificate in Financial Fraud from St. Xavier University. He is a Graduate of the FBI National Academy (Session 233) and is elected to the Board of Directors for the Northern Illinois Chapter of the FBI National Academy, the most active FBI NA Alumni Chapter in the world.

He is a speaker at many Pension and Investment related events.

He was named the Acting Chief Investment Officer (CIO) in Nov/2014, for the Chicago Policemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund.

Dan Collins has been an elected trustee with the Skokie Firefighter Pension Board since 2000. Dan has served the board as a trustee-at-large, secretary and currently as president. Once elected as board president, Dan made it a priority to contract with a third party accounting firm, actuarial service and outside counsel. Dan then commissioned studies utilized to effectively change funding policy which has kept their fund on a positive course.

Mr. Collins began his full-time firefighting career with the Village of Oak Park before accepting a position with the Skokie Fire Department in 1999. In 2007, Dan was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Dan is a proud member of IAFF Local 3033 and the AFFI. He has been a licensed paramedic since 1996, is certified in all rescue disciplines and has served as a member of the MABAS Division 3 Technical Rescue Team.

Mr. Collins began teaching the Retirement Coordinator course with the IPPFA in 2015. Dan believes that education is the key to success with regards to pension related public policy. He further believes that all American workers deserve a pension and real retirement security.

Dan's interest in pension security and employee rights began while he was working his way through the University of Illinois at Chicago for a respondent workers compensation firm. While performing research and covering the Chicago Industrial Commission call, Dan realized that public safety workers were not giving themselves enough credit for the difficult jobs they perform. Dan noted that public safety workers often downplayed the severity of their injuries and the toll the job took on them and their families. Dan became a staunch advocate long before his own public safety career began.

Dan is a lifelong Chicagoan and resides with his wife, Julie, and their two children in the southwest side neighborhood of Beverly. In 2009, Dan and Julie adopted their children, Kirsten and Danny, at the ages of 13 and 9 after a period of fostering. The Collins family is actively involved with several foster child charities. Their hope is to give as many adversely affected children of the foster care system a real chance at success.