John Spagnola, the Philadelphia Eagles' star tight end and players' union rep in the 1980s, has built a 24-year post-NFL career as paid advisor to public-employer and union pension plans.
He is a Managing Director at Philadelphia-based PFM, which ranks among the nation's largest pension advisory firms, with 530 employees and a total of $67 billion in client accounts. Advisory clients include 82 Pennsylvania governments, the NFL,and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, among others.
Spagnola took questions in his new BNY Mellon Tower office last week.