
January 10, 2011
François Gadenne
François Gadenne is co-founder, chairman and executive director of the Retirement Income Industry Association, (RIIA).
Gadenne co-founded Retirement Engineering, Inc. (REI), and Rational Investors. He served as general manager of S&P’s Retirement Services group and worked at the Bank of Boston (now Bank of America). Gadenne was an associate of Braxton, the strategy arm of Deloitte, and a senior staff member at Arthur D. Little.
Gadenne is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member of the CFA Institute and a Lecturer at Boston University’s School of Management.
He is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris and earned an M.B.A. from J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.