Peter has around 25 years’ experience of working in the policy development and management of the Civil Service, Parliamentary and Royal Mail Statutory Pension Schemes. During that time, he has specialised in analysing complex statutory provisions, and working with professional advisers both to develop new pension schemes and to defend legal challenges to existing arrangements. He is currently Head of Pensions Policy and Technical in Civil Service HR in the Cabinet Office.

In his spare time he enjoys listening to music, watching sport and spending time with his family and dog.

Maurice is a risk transfer consultant and a qualified actuary, with over 12 years’ experience.  He focuses on helping clients reduce risk, liabilities and costs from their schemes through various de-risking strategies, from member options exercises through to bulk annuity transactions.

Manpreet has a portfolio of clients where she acts as professional trustee and leads the Ross Trustees Pensions Manager and Secretariat teams.

Manpreet has worked in the professional trusteeship industry since 2005, managing a portfolio of pension schemes, acting as either professional trustee, outsourced Pensions Manager or as Scheme Secretary. She has acted as Trustee to five schemes and Project Manager or Scheme Secretary to over 15 Trustee Boards with assets ranging from the low millions up to £1 billion.

She has worked at Ross Trustees since its inception in 2010, and has been central in establishing and developing the company’s outsourced pensions manager and secretariat governance offering.

Mairi Dearden is the Stakeholder Lead at The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO). 

Her role involves leading the TPO’s external engagement function, working with stakeholders across the pensions industry: schemes, providers, trustees, consumer groups, regulators, other Ombudsman, and Parliamentarians. Working to share information and intelligence, promote best practices, improve the customer journey, and promote informal resolution of complaints. 

She joined TPO in 2014 as a Casework Manager in 2014 leading a team of Senior Adjudicators and Lawyers.

Prior to joining TPO, Mairi enjoyed a 30-year career in criminal justice in the UK and USA. In roles with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and a District Attorney’s Office. On her return to the UK Mairi worked with Victim Support and led the project to establish a Witness Service in the Magistrates Courts’ and contributed to the work of Her Majesty’s Inspectorates. 

Before her move to TPO Mairi worked for The Independent Office of Police Complaints (IOPC) as a Detective Chief Inspector, leading criminal, coronial and misconduct investigations involving the police and agencies with policing powers.

Greig is an Accredited Professional Trustee with Dalriada having joined in 2008 from a large organisation specialising in pensions for the not-for-profit and charity sectors.  Since entering the industry in 1999, Greig has gained a wealth of experience across the spectrum of pensions management.  Greig predominantly works in our on-going trustee practice working with sponsors as a sole or co-trustee across a variety of pension schemes, ranging from a £1 million pension scheme with 30 members to a £500 million+ scheme with around  5,500 members.

Greig is Accredited as a Professional Trustee by the Association of Professional Pension Trustees.

Greig, an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute, has a strong technical background and wide-ranging experience in pension scheme governance, including numerous complex negotiations, investment reviews and corporate transitions.  He is a keen market commentator and is regularly featured in industry publications discussing current pension issues.

Andy leads Aon’s Trustee Training team which provides training to new and experienced trustees as part of the Trustee Knowledge and Understanding requirement set out by the Pensions Regulator.

Andy is a consultant in the retirement practice in Aon’s Birmingham office, having joined the firm in 2001.

He supports trustees in their day-to-day duties as a scheme secretary and governance consultant, and has previously been seconded to a client’s in-house pensions department.