Gary K. Allen, Jeffrey B. Coontz and W. Scott Simon are the principals and senior management of PIA. They have in aggregate more than fifty years of experience in the retirement plan industry. Their firm, a SEC registered investment advisor, specializes in showing sponsors of 401(k) and other retirement plans how a longstanding, yet little-known, legal mechanism in ERISA allows them to get rid of significant fiduciary responsibilities and liabilities for the selection, monitoring and replacement of plan investment options by transferring such responsibilities and liabilities to PIA. Any plan sponsor that makes this transfer will escape liability for PIA's decisions and actions concerning these critical responsibilities.