2025 MDRT Executive Committee
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Secretary
Carol Kheng, ChFC, is the 2022 Secretary of the MDRT Executive Committee. She is a 23-year MDRT member with one Court of the Table qualification. She is also a Gold Knight of the MDRT Foundation and has served on its Board of Trustees. A private wealth consultant with Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, Kheng currently focuses on estate planning for high-net-worth individuals. Kheng's extensive MDRT volunteerism includes roles as Divisional Vice President of the Global Conference Program General Arrangements (PGA) Division, Divisional Vice President Member Resources – Practice Management Division and Divisional Vice President of the 2014 MDRT Experience meeting. Kheng is also a 2020 Prudential Presidents’ Club awardee and has been a member of Prudential’s Quality Club Elite and Star Club since 1996. In 2005, she was the founding member and chairperson of Prudential’s MDRT Club.
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Second Vice President
Gregory B. Gagne, ChFC, is the 2022 Second Vice President of the MDRT Executive Committee. He is a 22-year MDRT member with four Court of the Table and 13 Top of the Table qualifications. He is also an Excalibur Knight of the MDRT Foundation and has served on its Board of Trustees. Gagne is the founder of Affinity Investment Group LLC, which provides wealth management and distribution planning services. His extensive MDRT volunteerism has included Top of the Table Global Council Member and Advisory Board Chair and the 2020 Program Development Global Council Member, responsible for the Program General Arrangements (PGA) and Program Development Committee (PDC) for the 2020 Annual Meeting and 2020 Global Conference. He has spoken at 12 MDRT meetings. In addition to his MDRT leadership, Gagne is a past president of NAIFA–New Hampshire and was awarded the NAIFA–New Hampshire Distinguished Financial Advisor Award in 2008.
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First Vice President
John F. Nichols, MSM, CLU, is the 2025 First Vice President of MDRT. He is a 24-year MDRT member with 19 Court of the Table and 17 Top of the Table qualifications. Nichols served as Global Council Member of MDRT’s Membership Division in 2020 and Chair of its Bylaws and Ethics Committee in 2019. In 2022, he served as President of the MDRT Foundation, for which he is a Royal Order Excalibur Knight and a member of its Inner Circle Society. Nichols is president of Disability Resource Group Inc., an insurance agency that he founded in 1999. He also is a partner with Acrisure, a global fintech services provider.
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Second Vice President
Clay Gillespie, CFP, CLU, is the 2025 Second Vice President of MDRT. He is a 23-year MDRT member with 21 Court of the Table and 20 Top of the Table qualifications. An Excalibur Knight of the MDRT Foundation, Gillespie served as Global Council Member of MDRT’s Finance Division in 2023 and as Top of the Table Global Council Member and Advisory Board Chair in 2019. He was Captain of the 2015 MDRT Annual Meeting Focus Sessions Committee and has served as Chair of several committees in the Top of the Table Division. Gillespie is a financial advisor, portfolio manager and managing director with RGF Integrated Wealth Management.
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Secretary
Aurora L. Tancock, CFP, FLMI, is the 2025 Secretary of MDRT. She is a 23-year MDRT member with 13 Court of the Table and four Top of the Table qualifications. Tancock served as Chair of the Focus Sessions Committee for the 2023 MDRT Global Conference and as Global Council Member for MDRT’s Finance Division in 2020. She also has served on the Board of Trustees of the MDRT Foundation, for which she is a Diamond Knight and a member of its Inner Circle Society. Tancock is the founder of Aurora Tancock Financial Services Inc.
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