Management
Team

Angela Conn is responsible for client services, management, and retention at Andesa.

Angela joined Andesa in 2015 as the Manager of Plan Administration with a focus on our plan administration clients and the expansion of Andesa’s service offerings. After she transitioned to a Business Operations Manager role focused on client administration for TPA services, she was promoted to Director of Client Experience, overseeing client service, management, and retention. Angela has more than twenty years of experience in nonqualified retirement planning and life insurance policy support. Before joining Andesa, she was an Assistant Director of Client Operations for The Principal Financial Group, focused on process efficiency and nonqualified retirement plan support. She also spent several years working for Clark Consulting in the community bank business segment.

Angela holds an undergraduate degree in management from the College of Saint Benedict and a master’s degree in business administration from Keller School of Management. She is also Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

Jacqueline Hunter is responsible for Andesa’s enterprise risk management and legal functions and serves as Corporate Secretary.

Hunter joined Andesa in 2018, bringing a business approach to legal developed through experience in the public and private sectors. Establishing Andesa’s General Counsel role, she drives results in contracting, compliance, insurance, and business support. Having spearheaded the enterprise risk management office in 2021, Hunter and her team bring together our legal, security, and compliance disciplines.

Hunter holds a bachelors’ degree in social work from Rutgers University and her juris doctor, cum laude, from New England Law Boston.

Chris Shalbert, Andesa’s Chief Technology Officer is responsible for driving Andesa’s technology strategy aligned with business objectives, which includes responsibility for application development practices, technology solutions, systems architecture and IT operations.

Chris joined Andesa in 2001 after spending six years performing back office support and analysis in a Financial Planning and Consulting firm located in Allentown, Pa.  Recently, he spent almost seven years as Andesa’s Chief Implementation Officer responsible for implementing application initiatives and ensuring Andesa’s service offerings were effectively and efficiently designed, developed, and launched.

Chris attended LaSalle University where he studied Mathematics with concentrations in Computer Science and Risk Management & Insurance.

Ron Scheese is responsible for guiding Andesa toward its present and future goals.

Prior to his role as CEO, Scheese served as Andesa’s Chief Administration Officer and Chief Financial Officer since 2006. Before coming to the company, he worked at Phoebe Ministries, a not-for-profit network of long-term care, housing, and support services for seniors, where he was the Senior Vice President of Finance. He has also worked for three years with QuadraMed, a software and services solutions company, as the Product Line Manager in decision support services.

Scheese is a CPA and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Albright College, where he now serves as chair of the college’s board of trustees. He has spoken about his leadership experience for CEOpeek and the value of employee ownership for the Kelso Workshop at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. In 2021, he released his first book, More Than a Company: Leading in a Values-Based Ecosystem, which offers guidance on how to build a business ecosystem around core values to sustain a high-performing culture and directly impact revenue and long-term success.

In January of 2022 Ron was a guest on Executive Leadership Radio, you can listen to the interview here.

Mark Wilkin has oversight of five areas of the organization: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal and Enterprise Risk. 

Mark is an experienced Chief Financial Officer and Business Development Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the technology and insurance industries. Mark is a strong finance professional skilled in Strategic Financial Planning, Accounting, and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). He is also Andesa’s Business Development Executive that works with internal sales teams to seek relationships with organizations needing the solutions of Andesa.

Mark joined Andesa in March 2011 from the Philadelphia office of KPMG, a global network of professional services firms, where he was a Senior Manager focusing on audit and advisory services to the insurance industry.

A CPA, Mark holds a BS in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has served as a board member of multiple nonprofit organizations.

Leadership in the community:

Mark Wilkin was awarded as 10 Best CFOs of 2021| C Level Focus. You can view the article here
Mark was a guest of Executive Leaders Radio on January 14, 2022.  You can listen to the broadcast here