Dr. Albert M. Teplin, PhD, CFP® is Senior Financial Planner with Connemara Group. A 2012 graduate of Georgetown University’s Center for Continuing & Professional Education Certificate in Financial Planning Program, Al is a retired PhD economist with The Federal Reserve System. Dr. Teplin’s career as an economist and consultant spanned more than thirty years. From 1989 to 2001, he was the chief of the Flow of Funds Section at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC and served as senior economist before leaving in 2002. He then consulted for the European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, the Federal Reserve, and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Dr. Teplin has also served as a corporate director for two publicly traded companies. He was a director of Viad Corporation from 2009-2015; Viad Corp is an S&P Small Cap 600 company that provides services to the trade show industry and exhibitors and offers travel and recreation services in the United States and Canada. Dr. Teplin was Audit Committee chair for six years and later chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. He was also a director of MoneyGram International, an S&P Midcap 400 company, from 2006 to 2011, where he served as chairman of the audit committee from 2008 to 2011. Dr. Teplin holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has a doctorate in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and resides in Rockville, Maryland.