Tara Malone - Musculosketal Transplant Foundation - Edison, NJ

Tara Malone is the Director of HR Services for the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) located in Edison, New Jersey. MTF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing quality tissue, services and devices to meet the needs of donors, their families, recipients and the surgical community. In her role at MTF, Tara is responsible for managing the areas of Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, HRIS, and Health & Safety. She is also a member of the MTF 401(k) Investment Committee.

Prior to joining MTF in 2003, Tara had extensive private sector management experience. For seven years she served as a Benefit Consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Hewitt Associates.

From 1993 to 1996 she was the Benefits Administrator for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where her duties included day-to-day administration of benefit plans for 12 unions and non-union staff and management of the annual enrollment process.

She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and is a trained Six Sigma Black-Belt. Six Sigma, a business management strategy that is widely used in many sectors of industry, seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.

Tara has a Bachelor of Arts from St. John’s University.

"As part of the MTF mission, employees are committed to maximizing every donor's gift. The 501c Agencies Trust furthers our mission by helping us control unemployment costs through a well-managed investment strategy and claims management. I am honored to serve on the board."