BenefitsPRO readers: As we present this Advisors Who Serve(d) slideshow, we are grateful not only to all the advisors who serve and have served but to all the benefits managers and brokers who serve and have served.

This is our sister site ThinkAdvisor's sixth year of the Advisors Who Serve(d) slideshow, and each time they've debuted this over Memorial Day weekend and then ran it on July 4th and Veterans Day. 

One advisor who served in the Navy for many years, and is still active in the reserves, had mulled submitting his story but decided against it because he believed, as he said in an email, "it wasn't the appropriate thing to do on Memorial Day."

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Ronald Pechtimaldjian

Ron, who is Executive Editor of ThinkAdvisor, has worked for the website since 2010, when he helped design and launch the site. Previously, he was a staff editor at The New York Times News Service for 18 years, editing TimesDigest, a daily digest of The Times distributed worldwide. He also edited The New York Times International Weekly, a syndicated news section with a global readership of over 6 million. Ron received a B.S. in Communications from University of Texas at Austin. He also attended University of London, studying Art, Architecture and Theater.