Director, Retirement &

Benefit Services

Division,

State of Connecticut

Thomas Woodruff is Director of the Retirement & Benefit Services Division of the Office of the Connecticut State Comptroller. The Retirement & Benefit Services Division is responsible for administering defined benefit retirement plans for state employees, the 457(b) deferred compensation plan, the Alternate Retirement Plan, the 403(b) plan, Municipal Employees Retirement System, health insurance and other employee benefit programs for 200,000 employees, retirees, and their family members.

Prior to joining state service in June of 2004, Woodruff had over 25 years of experience in employee benefits, management, research, insurance, employment policy, investment, collective bargaining and pension plan product development, legislation, and regulation. He was the Executive Director of the President’s Commission on Pension Policy during the Carter administration, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Executive Director of the foundation-supported Commission on College Retirement and the CEO of his own consulting firm. Woodruff has three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Economics, Planning, and Management.