Upcoming Events
Meet our 2023-2024 committee members:
Kayla Byler, Events Chair
Kayla is a financial advisor with Raymond James. She is one of three advisors for Fields Wealth Management group in Franklin, TN. Kayla made her way down from Cleveland, OH to attend Belmont University graduate program.
Kimberly Coggin, The News
Field Vice President NQDC Solutions, Pacific Life
Kim is a highly qualified insurance executive with extensive experience building relationships with prospects, referral sources, and market influencers. She has considerable background in the executive benefits market and excels at building relationships with C-level executives and Boards.
Jenny Kiesewetter has more than 24 years of experience advising businesses in ERISA, employee benefits, compensation, fiduciary responsibility, and compliance matters.
As a member of the firm’s Employee Benefits and Tax Practice in Nashville, she advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, including qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, cafeteria plans, severance plans, and equity-based compensation plans.
Over the course of her career, Jenny has advised companies, governmental entities, plan sponsors, plan administrators, human resources professionals, and fiduciaries regarding employee benefit plan compliance (both ERISA and non-ERISA). She also has served as a retirement plan compliance consultant at a national brokerage where she supported both external clients and internal retirement plan advisors and consultants, helping to complement organizations’ benefits, compensation, and overall people programs.
Jenny has also worked with businesses and investors during mergers and acquisitions, focusing on due diligence and compliance related to employee benefit plans, including retirement, health and welfare, and executive compensation plans. Additionally, she has worked on many post-acquisition employee benefit matters, specifically related to plan compliance and correction.
Additionally, Jenny has over 10 years of experience in defending federal ERISA litigation claims for employers or insurers while also serving as an adjunct professor at the Cecil C Humphreys School of Law, University of Memphis, where she has taught Employee Benefits for over 14 years.
Jenny earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, as well as a master’s in communications. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida. She has been consistently recognized by U.S. News – Best Lawyers for ERISA Litigation and Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.
Jenny is a frequent speaker and author on topics including ERISA, employee benefits, retirement plans, health plans, and statutory and regulatory compliance.
Don’t miss our next social event!
2024 Happy Hour – Wednesday, July 24th Downtown 4-6pm apps provided…more info to come
Check out our past events:
May 10th, 2024 Nails before Mother’s Day sponsored by Regina Lewis, CPFA and CAPTRUST
June 8th, 2022 thanks to Kasi Boyles of Lincoln Financial!
December 2021 Holiday Party
December 2021 Holiday Party was a smash! Love these Nashville Women for coming to network, have a good time and support eachother as we come out of the Pandemic. Retirement Plans are good hands with these women! Thank you to Fidelity and Janus Henderson for your amazing support and sponsorship as always!
Arrington Vineyards – July 7, 2021:
Close to 30 WIPN members gathered at a vineyard in Nashville on July 7th, 2021. It was a grand event since most of us had not seen each other in person since our 2019 WIPN holiday party. We enjoyed a beautiful setting, delicious wine, and a fantastic guest speaker who provided valuable tips on work/life balance. This lovely evening was due to the gracious sponsorship of Lincoln Financial Group. What a treat to have a celebrity crash our meeting! Kix Brooks of the duo Brooks & Dunn not only has 20 number one songs but is also the owner of the vineyard. We felt so special when he stopped by to say Hello!
Chapter Co-Chairs
Regina Lewis, CPFA
Vice President, Financial Advisor
CAPTRUST
regina.lewis@captrust.com
Regina has been helping business owners, HR Professionals, and C-Level executives better sponsor their retirement plans since 2014. Whether you are looking for ways to allow your plan to run in a more compliant fashion or more efficiently, she will work with great passion and care to guide you and your participants to create better outcomes. She also has a successful history in business to business sales and sales management that stems back to 2007. This has given her the unique ability to better serve business owners and corporations across many different industries.
Jennifer Cote, Membership Chair
Jennifer Cote is Of Counsel in the firm’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice. Jennifer advises private and public companies, financial institutions, and non-profit organizations on a wide range of employee benefit and executive compensation matters. Clients look to Jennifer for practical, “real-world” advice on the design, implementation, administration, and on-going maintenance of their pension and 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and health and welfare plans. She regularly counsels clients on compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code.
Jennifer has extensive experience with executive compensation arrangements, including equity awards, performance-based incentive compensation, and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Her practice includes drafting and negotiating agreements and plan documents, and strategizing plan design to comply with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.
In addition, Jennifer regularly advises clients on benefits and compensation issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions, including drafting and negotiating transactional documents and integrating acquired companies’ employee benefit plans and arrangements.
