Tobias Read, Chair

Oregon State Treasurer

Tobias Read took office on Jan. 2, 2017 as Oregon's 29th State Treasurer. He previously worked in the U.S. Treasury and as a liaison between designers, engineers and manufacturing units for Nike Inc. Prior to being elected Treasurer, he served a decade in the Oregon House of Representatives and championed legislation to invest in public education, improve state financial management, finance critical infrastructure improvements, and to help Oregonians save for more secure futures. As a lawmaker, he helped design and was a chief sponsor of the bill that successfully created the OregonSaves program. As Treasurer, he oversees Oregon's financial services agency.

The State Treasurer is a voting member of the Oregon Retirement Savings Board per ORS 178.200.

Appointed by Governor

Mr. Anderson was Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555, prior to retiring August 1, 2021. UFCW 555 represents 30,000 members in Oregon and Southwest Washington in retail, manufacturing, food processing, health care, building maintenance, and legal services. He also had served as trustee/secretary on the Oregon Retail Employee Pension Trust, trustee of the UFCW Local 555 Employers Health Trust prior to his retirement. and President of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council (Portland.) prior to his retirement Aside from labor, Mr. Anderson has served 37 years on the Salem Electric Co-op Board, is a member of the Claggett Creek Watershed Council. Jeff also served ten years on the Oregon Wage and Hour Commission, five years as chair of the Oregon Working Families Party, and eight years as President of Northwest Hope Foundation.

Kara Backus

Appointed by Governor

Ms. Backus is an employee benefits attorney at the Pacific Northwest law firm of Lane Powell. She is a member and past president of the Portland chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Council. She has experience with qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, executive compensation issues, and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions. She works with clients to design and draft benefit plans, to monitor compliance with new legislation under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code, and to interact with the IRS and the Department of Labor regarding plan issues. She regularly writes and speaks on employee benefits issues impacting Oregon and Washington employers. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree at Amherst College and her Juris Doctorate at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Edward Brewington

Appointed by Governor

Mr. Brewington is an executive council member and volunteer for AARP Oregon. Before he joined AARP as a volunteer, he was a senior executive at IBM and senior vice president of KinderCare. He now works part-time as an adjunct business professor at Marylhurst University in the MBA program.

Cory Streisinger

Appointed by Governor

Ms. Streisinger is an attorney by background and retired in 2011 as director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS). She was a clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Portland law firm of Lindsay Hart Neil & Weigler. She became legal counsel to Oregon’s governor in 1987, and from 1991 to 2001 was general counsel to the Port of Portland. Former Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed her as DCBS director in 2003. She volunteers as a tax preparer with CASH Oregon, a nonprofit focused on improving the financial health of low-income working families and individuals.

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The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to: Missy Simpson at RetirementSavings@ost.state.or.us or 503.373.1903.

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