Ajeet is the Global Co-Head of Client Solutions at Schroders. He focusses on working with institutional clients to understand their specific investment and governance needs in order to design innovative solutions to achieve their investment objectives. As a qualified actuary with extensive experience in both investment consulting and asset management, Ajeet is part of the senior management team with responsibility for the quality and evolution of our client-driven services. Ajeet has also worked in Deutsche Bank’s asset management businesses. Prior to that, he was a lead investment consultant advising several of our largest defined benefit and defined contribution clients

Alexa is a Director of Defined Benefit Solutions in Standard Life’s pension risk transfer team. She joined Standard Life in 2024, supporting prospective and existing clients with their de-risking objectives through the origination and execution of bulk annuity transactions. Alexa has worked in pensions for just over a decade, holding a number of previous roles across both pension insurance and pensions and investment consulting.

Adam has been working in the pensions sector for over 10 years now. He joined MaPS in 2021 and is a Senior Pensions Policy and Proposition lead working on the MoneyHelper Pension Dashboard. Before joining MaPS Adam previously worked in a similar role at Fidelity International and prior to that as a chartered financial adviser specialising in at retirement advice.

Chris Curry is Industry Principal of the Pensions Dashboards Programme at the Money and Pensions Service, alongside his role as Director of the Pensions Policy Institute. He co-chaired the 2017 DWP Auto-Enrolment Review, and holds degrees in Economics from the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London.

David is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion; serving as Deputy Chair of TPR’s EDI Steering Committee and a Public Sector Equality Duty champion.

He is Director of Trusteeship, Administration & DB Supervision. A chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience spanning pensions regulation, financial analysis, and corporate restructuring. David has led on strategic transformation across defined benefit schemes, trusteeship, and administration and has played a key role in the development of policy and guidance, most recently, the new DB Funding Regs, Code and accompanying covenant guidance. David has played a significant role in TPR’s transformation.

Duncan formerly a partner of Hogan Lovells is a non-executive director at Guiide (the online holistic retirement tool) and a trustee director of Sarcoma UK (the bone and soft tissue cancer charity). A Fellow of the PMI, Duncan also chairs the pensions sub committee at Yateley Industries for the Disabled.

Guy Opperman is the United Kingdom's longest serving Pensions and Financial Inclusion Minister from 2017-2022.
He was formerly a steeplechase jockey, a barrister, businessman and then the Member of Parliament for Hexham 2010-2024. Guy also held roles in the Home Office, Treasury, and Transport departments. He was responsible for the rollout of Defined Contribution Workplace Pensions to 8%, the reform of Defined Benefit, and multiple other reforms of our financial services from ESG to anti scam legislation. He served in the government of 4 Prime Ministers.
Since leaving politics in 2024 Guy is on a mission to change retirement savings around the world. He is a consultant to several countries and an advisor to multiple companies, notably Smart Pensions, and the Aptia Group.

Aside from politics, Guy set up and chaired from scratch the Northumberland Community Bank, a fully regulated savings and loan bank in the North East in 2015.
As a lawyer Guy was the UK 2007 Pro Bono lawyer of the Year winner, and was named by the Times newspaper as one of their lawyers of the year. He rode his last winner as a steeplechase jockey in 2019 at Sedgefield.

Hannah has more than 25 years of experience and 13 years of senior leadership in the pension industry with a focus on administration, systems, and data. Pertinently, she spent almost 3 years with the boutique insurer, Lucida, as a business analyst, gaining first-hand experience of the insurance side of de-risking solutions. She was involved with buy-ins at all stages, from pricing to transaction and beyond, including managing the post-transaction regular true-up process.

The following 8 years saw Hannah involved with major data management and transformation projects at ITM, some of which featured long-term partnerships with Capita. This also encompassed managing partnerships with Trustees and their administration teams, developing data strategies to achieve their long-term objectives. Some of these objectives were in relation to data and benefit remediation, whilst others were more focused on de-risking, enabling Hannah to gain an understanding of the complete de-risking journey.

Until recently, Hannah was the Senior Client Manager for UK administration clients at CEM Benchmarking, and although Hannah spent only 18 months there, this gave her the opportunity to work with RMPP to benchmark their administration services and member experience against other UK private and public sector pension schemes. This tenure has given her invaluable insight into how the RMPP administration services are delivered and their enduring objective to provide value to members.

John Wilson LLB (Hons), FPMI, ACII, Head of Pensions Technical at Aptia, has nearly 40 years’ experience in the pensions industry, spending 20 of them at JLT Employee Benefits where he led the in-house research function and authored a number of white papers on topics such as DB deficits and the adequacy of retirement.
He has also held roles at firms such as Dalriada Trustees, Standard Life, Aegon, Scottish Widows and Buck Consultants. He is currently the chair of the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) and Pensions Management Institute (PMI) Scottish groups, and a member of the SPP’s Legislation Committee.

Lawrence is Head of Endgame Solutions within our Client Solutions team.
He started his career as an actuarial consultant and now specialises in advising on and implementing investment solutions for UK DB pension schemes, with a focus on ‘endgame’ objectives.
Lawrence leads the development of Schroders’ endgame proposition, whether that’s to design investment strategy to ensure safe transfer to an insurance company (buy-out), or to continue to run a pension scheme on, either in a ‘Low Dependency’ manner or to explicitly generate and distribute surplus.
Lawrence has over 18 years of experience in the pensions industry, covering traditional actuarial consulting, investment analytics and investment advisory services including Fiduciary Management.
He is a part qualified actuary and holds a BSc in Neuroscience and Physiology from the University of Bristol.

Martyn has been involved and heavily focussed on the Pension Risk Transfer market since 2007. In that time, he has worked on the insurer side for around 4 years (gaining hugely valuable insights into the insurer processes, mindset and strategies), and has over 13 years of experience on the trustee advisory side.

Martyn has built and led Pension Risk Transfer teams in major Employee Benefit consultancies. He has personally led and advised on c50 transactions, covering schemes below £10m to schemes over £1bn in size, and has driven innovation in the Pension Risk Transfer marketplace, bringing a focus on pragmatic and holistic solutions whilst always maintaining a focus on key client and member outcomes required.

Nick leads sales and marketing activity for all of TPT’s consolidation solutions, and also heads up TPT Investment Management, including the delivery of our fiduciary management capabilities.

He joined TPT in 2023, following eight years at Van Lanschot Kempen. Previously, he worked at Hymans Robertson and XPS, supporting large organisations with their DB and DC pension provision.

Rob is the Director of Commercial for Just’s DB business. His team is responsible for business development, trustee relationships, reinsurance relationships and proposition development. Rob started his actuarial career in a small company and then qualified at Aviva where he worked on various actuarial roles for 13 years. He has been involved in bulk annuities since 2008, working on hundreds of transactions. He joined Just in 2014, leading the business development team. He qualified as an actuary in 2006.

Sarah has worked in the pensions industry for over 40 years; leading and developing Aon’s trustee board effectiveness to support clients in delivering their agenda of work in constantly evolving times.

Shalin brings extensive pensions, insurance and investment experience having worked across the sector for many years. He started his career in South Africa in life insurance pricing and reserving and then transitioned into liability valuations for defined benefit pension funds.

In addition, he brings significant LDI, derivative and credit portfolio management experience and has advised some of the UK’s largest pension funds on their LDI strategies both as a consultant with Mercer and portfolio manager with Legal & General Investment Management..

He is a member of the advisory panel at the Financial Reporting Council and a non-executive director at Pensions for Purpose. He recently served as a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Finance and Investment Board and as an advisory member for the task force to boost socio-economic diversity at senior levels in both the financial and professional services sectors.