With over 30 years experience as attorney and association manager specializing in employee benefits, self-insurance and captive insurance for corporations and associations George Pantos is the Executive Director of the Healthcare Performance Management Institute.
 
Previously serving as Chief Counsel for the Self Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) and a former partner in the national law firm Vedder Price of Chicago, Pantos co-founded and served as counsel to The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), a national coalition of 125 major employers concerned with ERISA benefits issues. For more than 13 years, he served as principal counsel to ERIC, drafting briefs in five major U.S. Supreme Court cases involving ERISA preemption.
 
Prior to entering private law practice, Pantos served in the U.S. government as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce in the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he managed the legislative-relations program for a Cabinet-level federal agency. Earlier in his career, Pantos worked as an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business association, where he concentrated on employer-policy issues before Congress.

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