Ernesto Boada, former Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Information Officer at Workday and former Chief Technology Officer at Western Union, joins workplace savings startup Sunny Day Fund as its Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer. “After working in the technology sector for over 25 years with major companies like Workday, Visa, Intuit, and Western Union, […]
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What simplified emergency savings look like: badcredit.org article
I sat down with Jon and Andrew at badcredit.org recently to talk about why working Americans want help saving for emergencies. I became passionate about this journey because it’s partly my own. You probably have seen the new data around lack of emergency savings, rising loans and withdrawals against retirement savings, and growing demand for […]
Secure Act 2.0 Signed and More from 2022: Year in Review
What a nail-biting finish to the year! Last night (Dec 29, 2022), President Biden signed into law Secure Act 2.0, including workplace emergency savings – hooray! With that lead unburied, we can finally wrap up the year and celebrate all that we’ve done and accomplished. Thank you for following us – learning why we are […]
Sitting Down with Lisa Massena to Talk Emergency Savings
By chance I sat next Lisa Massena at a recent forum on the future of retirement savings. Lisa launched OregonSaves, the original state Auto IRA that has become the template for twelve other states and more to come. Lisa is now the COO of Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association (DCIIA), which has been conducting great […]
Partnering with Financial Solutions Lab to Improve Access to Benefits
We are humbled to announce that Sunny Day Fund has joined the Financial Solutions Lab’s 2022 Accelerator Program. The Financial Solutions Lab, an initiative by the Financial Health Network in partnership with JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Prudential Financial, is on a mission to “cultivate, support, and scale innovative ideas that help improve financial […]
Workforce Financial Well-being & Sunny Day Fund: 2021 in Review
As 2021 comes to a close, I can’t help but reflect on the past year and what we’ve accomplished. Though not without challenges or volatility (from the ongoing pandemic that’s impacted our own team to the Great Resignation), it’s been a rewarding year with significant wins for employee finances within Sunny Day Fund, the organizations […]