Monte Tarbox
United States
Expertise:
Business & Industry
Executive Director, Investments
Monte Tarbox is the executive director, investments for the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF), which provides pension benefits to (IBEW) members and the electrical industry nationwide. NEBF has over 500,000 participants, more than 9,000 contributing employers and assets of $18 billion. Tarbox joined NEBF in 2013 and is responsible for the investment program, including asset allocation, investment policy and oversight of external investment managers.
Before joining NEBF, Tarbox was CIO at the IAM National Pension Fund in Washington, D.C. Previous experience included five years with IFM Investors, a global investment firm that is wholly owned by over 30 Australian superannuation (pension) funds. He held senior positions with investment consulting firms in Chicago, Washington and Melbourne. Tarbox also spent two years as the executive director of the AFL-CIO Center for Working Capital, where he developed a trustee training and education program and created a trustee curriculum on fiduciary duty and investment responsibilities.
Tarbox has a BA from Carleton College and an MBA from the University of Chicago with a specialization in finance. He served for 18 years as a trustee on the Board of Investments for the Montgomery County Public Schools Retirement System in Rockville, Maryland. In 2018, he was appointed as a public advisor to the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System.