Cheryl D. Alston is the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Employees' Retirement Fund of the City of Dallas, Texas ("ERF"), a $3.6+ billion pension plan for the City's civilian employees. Cheryl has over twenty-five years of expertise in the financial services industry. She serves on the Board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City and is Chair of the Finance and Investment committee. She also serves on the board of Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, CHRISTUS Health and Torchmark Corporation. In 2018, Women Inc. Magazine selected Cheryl as one of the most influential corporate directors. In 2011, Cheryl was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Advisory Committee and served two terms. She served as an Executive with CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services and Chase Global Services. Cheryl has an M.B.A. in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School at New York University and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Alston received awards from Institutional Investor magazine, D CEO Power 500 and the Dallas Power 50.