Laura A. Grogan O’Mara is Director of Retirement Policy Planning & Strategy on the Retirement Research & Insights team of the Retirement & Personal Wealth Solutions Group at Bank of America. She is responsible for developing retirement savings policy initiatives as well as managing legislative and regulatory proposals as they impact employer plans in large, corporate and small market as well as retail products such as IRA, Roth IRA, SEP, SIMPLE and 403(b) plans. She has consulted on employer retirement plan issues and IRAs and has more than 30 years of experience in the retirement and financial services industry. Ms. Grogan-O’Mara represents Bank of America Merrill Lynch at SIFMA and the SPARK Government Relations Committee. She is current Co-Chair of the SIFMA Retirement and Savings Committee as well as the Co-Chair of the EBRI Public Policy Advisory Council. Ms. Grogan-O’Mara holds a BA in Music and English from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.