Consulting Executive Director
David Eager is the immediate past Executive Director of the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority.
During Mr. Eager’s tenure as Executive Director, he
led efforts to work with the General Assembly and the Governor’s office to
stabilize funding for the retirement systems. He also oversaw the
organization’s transition from the former Kentucky Retirement Systems to the current
KPPA structure.
Mr. Eager has a long history working in the investment industry and with large pension funds. He began his career at Gerber Products Company where he was ultimately responsible for the firm's investor relations and retirement plan and insurance assets. He also administered the in-house pension equity portfolio and the portfolio of their Gerber Life Insurance Company. Mr. Eager also worked for Merrill Lynch's Institutional Department where he was responsible for managing commodity hedging clients, and later joined Meidinger Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky where he ultimately headed their investment consulting practice and was a Division Manager overseeing their benefits offices in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Louisville. After Mercer's acquisition of Meidinger, he managed Mercer Investment Consulting and was a Global Partner.
Mr. Eager then founded Eager & Associates, a firm that provided management consulting and marketing research to a wide variety of investment management firms in the United States and Europe. Mercer later acquired Eager & Associates, after which Mr. Eager continued to manage Mercer's Eager Manager Advisory, and was later retained by Driehaus Capital Management to serve as their Director for Product Development.
Along with two former Eager & Associates partners, Mr. Eager co-founded Eager, Davis and Holmes, which continued to provide the service Eager & Associates offered. When Mr. Eager was first named Interim Executive Director, he was required to resign from the Board and became an inactive, non-participating partner in Eager, Davis and Holmes.
Mr. Eager received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The Ohio State University and a MBA with honors from Western Michigan University.
Mr. Eager was originally appointed to the then-KRS Board of Trustees in April, 2016 by Governor Bevin and was elected Chair of the Investment Committee. In August, 2016, he was named Interim Executive Director and served in that capacity until April, 2018 when the Board voted to make him the Executive Director.
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