Howard Simon
President and Founder— Howard Simon & Associates, Inc.
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| After graduating from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Accounting and earning his C.P.A., Howard began his career in public accounting in 1969. Howard was with the accounting firms of Alexander Grant and Arthur Young for a period of 9 years. He left public accounting for a consulting position with a local actuarial firm for the next three years. At that time, Howard noticed a void in the marketplace in the area of pension administration companies that had a real interest in service vs. product sales. With Howard heading up the |
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consulting and business operations, and Mark Schwechter handling the administration services, Howard Simon & Associates, Inc. opened its doors in July 1981. The business has grown and evolved into one of the largest and most respected Third Party Administration firms in the Chicagoland Area. |
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Mark Schwechter
Vice President of Administration — Howard Simon & Associates, Inc.
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After graduating from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Finance, Mark began his career in the insurance industry in 1974. As the pension laws were rewritten for ERISA in 1974, Mark entered the field of pension administration in 1975. Over the next several years, Mark began to polish his skill in field of pension plan design and administration. In |
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1981 he helped with the founding of Howard Simon & Associates, Inc.. Mark has continued to be an innovator at the company, ensuring the latest technologies in the field of pension administration are utilized and in delivering new products and interfaces to our clients and their participants. |
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Doug Simon
President— HS&A Payroll Services, Inc.
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Doug earned his degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and began his career as a cellular engineer in a test lab at Motorola’s Arlington Heights campus. After earning his MBA from DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business in 1997, Doug was looking to take his career in a new direction. At the same time, Howard had noticed a demand in the marketplace for single point servicing of retirement plans and payroll processing. Doug accepted the challenge of creating |
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a payroll company that lived up to the service, technical and profession level of Howard Simon & Associates. HS&A Payroll Services, Inc. was incorporated October 30th, 1997. Since that time, the company has grown from 3 clients to processing payroll for thousands employees and providing tax filing services in nearly all 50 states and hundreds of local jurisdictions. |
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Brad Simon
Vice President Operation — HS&A Payroll Services, Inc.
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After graduating from Tulane University with a degree in Computer Science, Brad began his career as a key operations manager at a startup company in New York. Quickly realizing the market was collapsing around them, the group transformed their company into a payment processing platform. As Vice President of Operations Brad helped to build and develop that platform into a national product that was utilized by such Fortune 100 companies as Coca-Cola and the Altria Group. In 2006, the company was purchased by the world’s largest credit card processor, TSYS (NYSE: TSS).
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Facing a move to Georgia, Brad re-evaluated his career path. In late 2005, while pursuing his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, he put his operational expertise to use as Vice President Operations of HS&A Payroll Services, Inc. In addition to running our general operations, Brad implemented our next generation of enterprise-level processing technology. He is currently spearheading the transition of our existing client base from our legacy application to our new processing platform. |
