Stephen E. Barber is Chief Management Officer.  He came to PBGC in September 2005 from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), where he served as director of the Office of Information Management with responsibility for a nationwide information technology program that supported 10,000 federal and state users.  As the FMCSA's associate administrator for enforcement and program delivery from 2000 to 2003, he developed enforcement policies for heavy-truck and bus-safety regulation, including cross-border trucking negotiations with Canada and Mexico.  From 1991 to 2000 he headed the resource management division of the Federal Highway Administration, with responsibility for budget, acquisition, human resources, training and facilities for the Office of Motor Carrier Safety.  Mr. Barber holds a bachelor of business administration in management, marketing and economics from James Madison University.   

 Terrence M. Deneen is Chief Insurance Program Officer. He served as PBGC’s Principal Deputy General Counsel immediately prior to his current position. Mr. Deneen first worked at PBGC from 1978 to1981, when he participated in drafting the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980. He then served as Assistant General Counsel for one of the nation’s largest multiemployer pension plans, the UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, where he implemented and supervised the withdrawal liability program. He also engaged in a private law practice in which he concentrated on termination liability and fiduciary matters affecting pension plans. He rejoined PBGC in 1992. Mr. Deneen is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and has lectured on employee benefits law at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University law schools. Mr. Deneen is a cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois’ College of Law. He also completed undergraduate and graduate work at Illinois, earning a B.A. in history with high honors and an MA in medieval history.

Patsy A. Garnett is Chief Information Officer. She came to PBGC in April 2007 from the Environmental Protection Agency where she supported the Chief Architect in maturing the EPA's enterprise architecture program. Before joining the EPA, she served at the National Labor Relations Board in a variety of positions, including Deputy Chief Information Officer. As Deputy CIO, Ms. Garnett developed the NLRB’s first Strategic Information Technology Plan, introduced the IT Program into the Strategic Planning Process, and led the development of the NLRB’s Enterprise Architecture Program and the Capital Planning and Investment Control Process. She began federal service at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she led the migration of the technology infrastructure and operations from mainframe and mini-computer to a networked microcomputer environment. Her superior work in enterprise architecture, IT operations, security and customer support at these agencies has been recognized with several awards from the federal Chief Information Officers Council.

Patricia Kelly is Chief Financial Officer. She joined the PBGC in November 2007 after serving in the same position at the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to that, Ms. Kelly was the CFO and Budget Officer for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. During her federal career, she also worked at the Bureau of the Census where she was the Assistant Division Chief in the Decennial Census, the largest peacetime operation of the United States government. She earned an MBA from American University, and an MA and BA from Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Kelly also holds a CPA license and a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) certification.

Richard Macy is Chief Operating Officer. He came to PBGC in July 2006 following more than 20 years with ADP Inc., a worldwide provider of employee administration services based in Roseland, N.J. His most recent post was vice president, support services, with ADP COBRA/FSA Services in Alpharetta, Ga., where he oversaw major corporate initiatives in reengineering and automating core business processes, conducting business profitability studies and establishing overseas operations. Mr. Macy began his career as a systems engineer and IT manager with Williams, Thacher & Rand, a New York City-based benefits consulting firm. He became president of the firm’s WTR Data Services unit before it was acquired by ADP. Mr. Macy is a mathematics graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Judith Starr is General Counsel. She came to PBGC in July 2005 from the Department of the Treasury, where she served as chief counsel of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network with responsibility for administering the Bank Secrecy Act. In that position, she oversaw the creation of information-sharing mechanisms among government entities and the financial services industry, and the expansion of suspicious-activity reporting and anti-money laundering requirements. Prior to that, she was assistant chief litigation counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement. Ms. Starr also served as a special prosecutor for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has published a number of articles on both securities and bankruptcy law, and is a recipient of the SEC's Stanley Sporkin Award for outstanding contributions to SEC enforcement. Ms. Starr began her legal career as a clerk to Judge William Schwarzer of the U.S. District Court for Northern California. Before entering government service, she was a commercial litigator in private practice in Los Angeles. Ms. Starr received her juris doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and her bachelor of arts from the College of William and Mary.