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Michele Equale

Michele Equale is a Relationship Manager in Government Markets for Empower. In her role, she is responsible for a subset of Empower's largest government clients and for delivering world-class service, supporting plan management, and creating meaningful engagement with clients and participants. She is adept at helping her clients manage complex issues and fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities while collaboratively driving results and milestones.

Michele joined the organization in 2020 through the acquisition of the MassMutual Retirement business. She has tremendous experience in the industry, including in product, investments, transformation, and project management.

Enthusiastic about closing the gap in women in leadership, Michele serves as the National Co-Chair of Empower’s Women’s Empowerment Network (WEN) with primary oversight of developing and executing WEN’s strategic plan and leading the various WEN committees towards short term and long-term goals.

Michele holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and her MBA from University of Massachusetts-Amherst Isenberg School of Management. She has the FINRA Series 6 securities registration and the Series 63 state securities licenses and is pursuing the ASSPA QKA certification.