Barbara Kontje is the Director of Global Retirement and Smart Saving for American Express. She is responsible for the oversight, administration and strategy for all American Express global retirement plans.

Barbara’s responsibilities include the leadership of American Express’employee financial wellness program, Smart Saving. The intent of the Smart Saving program is to bring a more holistic perspective of the benefits offered by American Express to its employees to make it easier to support not only retirement savings, but the general financial wellness of each employee. This program incorporates retirement education as well as general financial education to provide useful tools and resources to employees.

Barbara has a B.A. from the College of New Jersey and an MBA from Pace University in New York.