Jeffrey D. Thiemann

Portico Benefit Services is a pension fund management firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 1988 and was formerly known as Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Board of Pensions. Portico Benefit Services is a subsidiary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a non-profit provider of health and retirement benefits with related services solely designed to help plan members of the ELCA and other faith-based organizations. The firm manages and operates the pension and other benefits plans for the church with the design and policy adopted by the Church wide Assembly.

Cogency Software, Inc. develops, deploys and supports automated management solutions. It offers discovery phase, implementation process, enrichment and support. The company was founded by Jeffrey Axelrod in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.