Ed Slott, CPA, is a professional speaker and author. He created the Public Television special "Stay Rich Forever & Ever with Ed Slott". He is the author of Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map (Ballantine Books 2007), Parlay Your IRA Into a Family Fortune (Viking 2005), The Retirement Savings Time Bomb and How to Defuse it (Penguin 2008) and Ed Slott's IRA Advisor, a monthly IRA newsletter. He also writes personal finance columns for financial publications. He is a past Chairman of the New York State Society of CPAs Estate Planning Committee and editor of the IRA Planning section of The CPA Journal. He is a former Board member of The Estate Planning Council of New York City.