Dan brings over 20 years of experience at the intersection of pensions, technology, and policy, with deep, first-hand insight into global retirement systems. He is the UK Country Head at Festina Finance, a leading European pension administration technology provider whose life and pension platform supports the continent’s largest pension providers. Prior to joining Festina, Dan served as Director of International at Smart Pension, where he led the global expansion of its Keystone technology platform across multiple continents. Dan began his career advising UK ministers on business strategy and innovation.

Dominic is a qualified actuary and Senior Consultant at Aon, primarily dividing his time between advising corporates on their pensions strategy and Aon’s Member Options and Support Team. He also leads a specialist team dedicated to innovating online educational modelling tools, helping to support tens of thousands of members with their retirement planning and decisions at-retirement.

Ed is an actuary and Senior Consultant, spending his time advising trustee and corporate clients on their pensions strategy. He is a passionate advocate for improving the member experience, and as part of Aon’s Member Options and Support Team he has helped numerous clients improve the support and flexibilities they provide to their members through the introduction of IFA support, online modellers to educate them on their options, and additional options to allow members to reshape their benefits to better suit their retirement needs.

Graeme is responsible for driving the Mantle software business to realise its full potential. This includes leading on business development, identifying new markets and product developments.
Graeme joined in November 2019 and has spent the last 10 years in Fintech. Variously in the DB market and the individual annuity market. Most recently he was the founding director of HUB Pension Solutions a ground breaking DB member option business with a big focus on member engagement.

Matt brings a wealth of experience from across the Financial Services industry, having worked with several FTSE 100 and global organisations. He has deep expertise in Defined Benefit pensions, built during his time supporting the Pensions Review and working within an actuarial consultancy.

In recent years, Matt has focused on developing innovative solutions in financial planning, open banking, financial wellbeing, pensions dashboards, and pension risk transfer, helping organisations navigate change and deliver better outcomes for their customers.

Paul is Head of Barnett Waddingham’s Pension Administration service. Paul’s role means that he is involved in all aspects of the strategy for, and delivery of, Barnett Waddingham’s trust based pension administration service. This includes defined benefit (DB), defined contribution (DC), cash balance, CARE, schemes going into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), and now Insurance Administration. He is responsible for the delivery of our pension administration service to some 400 clients covering 420,000 members. Our clients range from schemes with a handful of members up to 40,000 and are administered from nine Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) accredited offices across the UK. Paul also has responsibility for several related in-house digital pensions technologies for scheme members and clients, including our online pensions services and Insight, our online trustee dashboard.

Festina Finance is a leading European software company transforming the future of pension administration. Its flagship platform, FF Life and Pension, is built from the ground up to support the full range of pension products—Defined Benefit (DB), Defined Contribution (DC), Collective Defined Contribution (CDC), and life insurance—with unmatched flexibility and precision. FF Life and Pension is modular and fully client-configurable, empowering pension funds, insurers, and administrators to focus on business strategy, product and proposition innovation, streamline operations, adapt quickly to regulatory change, and focus on delivering the best outcomes for their members. With proven success in Denmark and the Netherlands, including powering Europe’s largest pension provider with over £500bn in assets, Festina is scaling fast and is on track for more than £700bn in assets and 8 million savers running through the software—positioning us as Europe’s premier life and pensions platform.