Jay Kirschbaum, J.D., LLM
Jay Kirschbaum is senior vice president and benefits compliance-director
with World Insurance Associates LLC. He has more than 30
years of experience as a tax attorney, specializing in employee benefits
and the application of a broad range of compensation and employer-
sponsored benefits programs. His experience combines a high
level of technical expertise with creative and practical business-oriented
solutions in the design, administration and compliance of health
and welfare benefits plans, qualified retirement plans, fringe benefit
plans and executive compensation, including nonqualified deferred
compensation and equity-based programs. Previously, he was a senior
vice president and senior ERISA attorney with Lockton, and he
also served as the leader of the compliance review process for Aon’s
merger and acquisition practice. Kirschbaum was previously the national
practice leader for the legal and research team at Willis Towers
Watson. There, he directed a team of employee benefits attorneys and
paraprofessionals who provided technical and marketing assistance to
employee benefits producers in Willis offices worldwide. The team
provided guidance on all employee benefits programs under ERISA,
the Internal Revenue Code, and all other statutory and regulatory provisions.
He served as a Peace Corps volunteer and business consultant
from 1979 to 1982 in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and El Salvador.
He holds an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University
School of Law, a J.D. degree from the University of Arizona James E.
Rogers College of Law and a B.S. degree in business administration
from Washington University.
Senior Vice President and Benefits Compliance-Director, World Insurance Associates LLC
Edison, New Jersey