Adrian is Business Development Director at HUB Financial Solutions, which is part of Just Group plc. He is passionate about delivering innovation in the retirement space to help people achieve a better later life. Prior to joining HUB Group, he held senior sales and marketing management roles at Barnett Waddingham, Sacker & Partners and Towers Perrin. He is Chair of the Central London Group PLSA Committee and a regular judge at industry awards.

Antony Esposito is Head UK DC Client Solutions and is part of the European Client Solutions business unit, based in London. He has been with Partners Group since 2012 and has 12 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Pictet and UBS. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management and strategy from Aston University, UK. He also holds the UK Society of Investment Professionals Investment Management Certificate. Antony also sits on Partners Group's Diversity & Inclusion committee.

Gareth is a managing associate in Linklaters’ pensions practice, with over 12 years' experience advising trustee and employer clients. Gareth has broad experience of all aspects of pensions law including benefit issues, scheme governance, the pensions aspects of corporate transactions, and advising on complex restructuring arrangements. Gareth has a particular interest in pension investment issues and liability management and has advised on a number of buy-in transactions over the past few years. Gareth is a member of Linklaters’ Pensions Investment Practice. He is also a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and sits on the investment committee of the Society of Pension Professionals.

Helen is a partner at Sackers advising trustees, employers and providers on all aspects of pensions law. She has a particular interest in new legislation, regulatory and policy development, particularly in relation to defined contribution pensions. Helen has acted for many DC schemes and master trusts over the years and is an expert on their particular design and governance issues. She contributes to various industry initiatives and monitors developments in defined contribution matters closely, most recently becoming chair of the new PASA CDC working group on member engagement and communications.

Henrietta Pacquement is a senior portfolio manager and the head of the Global Fixed Income team at Allspring Global Investments. She joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Henrietta joined WFAM as a quantitative analyst before becoming a portfolio manager and, subsequently, the head of the European investment-grade business for the Global Fixed Income team in London. She has extensive buy-side experience in portfolio and risk management. Prior to joining WFAM, Henrietta was a quantitative analyst at Barclays Global Investors. Earlier, Henrietta spent four years in Paris working for AXA Investment Management in a similar role. She began her investment industry career in 2001. Henrietta earned a master’s degree in astrophysics from Cambridge University. She has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation.

Jack is an associate in Linklaters’ pensions practice. He has experience providing legal advice to trustees and employers of DB and DC pension schemes. He advises on a broad range of matters, including DC master trust bulk transfers, pensions investments issues (including ESG and TCFD), scheme mergers and day-to-day DB and DC general advisory matters. He is interested in pensions investment and DC governance requirements, including SIPs, implementation statements and chair’s statements. Jack has experience in funds and pensions investment work having previously worked as an in-house lawyer for both a major Australian infrastructure fund manager and UK property fund manager. He is also a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers.

John has over 34 years experience in the pensions and employee benefits industry across a wide range of roles from Consultancy to in-house Management. John joined the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in January 2022 and has responsibility for oversight of LSEG’s global DC pension arrangements and development and delivery of LSEG’s global financial education programme.

Joined Ruffer in 2012, having graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA Honours in French and Spanish. He became a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment following completion of the CISI Diploma, receiving the highest mark in that year. He manages portfolios predominantly for institutional clients and is co-manager one of Ruffer’s flagship funds.

Katharina is a Senior Responsible Investment Manager at Nest, leading the pension scheme's approach to managing climate change risks and opportunities within the £25 billion portfolio. She helped develop Nest’s climate change strategy and is responsible for evolving the strategy in line with policy developments and the latest available scientific data.
Prior to joining Nest Katharina worked at Railpen and Aberdeen Standard Investments. She holds an MA in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment from UCL. Katharina is also a CFA charterholder.

Louise is the Interim Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice at The Pensions Regulator. Louise has been with TPR for the past 15 years, with the majority of that time spent leading the development of regulatory policy across DB, DC and public service schemes. Before joining the Regulator, Louise held technical roles in the pensions industry ranging across personal and occupational pensions, third party pension administration, and TPAS (The Pensions Advisory Service). Louise has recently taken on the role of Interim Director, taking over from David Fairs.

Mark has many years of experience in financial services, including delivering service innovation and pension scheme member services for major FTSE companies.

He leads the team responsible for developing and implementing a range of financial education and guidance services for our existing clients and for companies and Trustee boards across the UK.

Mark also actively manages partnerships with major institutes for retirement savings professionals including the Pensions Management Institute and Pensions Policy Institute and leads the development of our at-retirement services for workplace pension schemes and pension scheme members.

Martijn de Vree is head of Fixed Income Solutions for the Global Fixed Income team at Allspring Global Investments. In this role, he is responsible for collaborating with global institutional investors to deliver appropriate fixed income strategies to meet their financial, sustainability, and climate objectives. Martijn is also part of the Allspring Climate Change Working Group, which provides a research engine to drive engagement on climate issues. He joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Prior to joining WFAM, he served as a senior solutions specialist at Insight Investments. Martijn began his investment industry career in 2006 as an investment consultant for Watson Wyatt. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Allspring (Lux) Worldwide Fund and Allspring Global Investments Luxembourg, S.A. Martijn also serves on the Board of Examiners and as Chief Examiner Subject SP6 – Financial Derivatives for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the U.K., where he achieved Fellowship. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business and economics and a Latin Legum Magister in financial law, both from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and a master’s degree in economics from the National University of Singapore, where he graduated top of his class. Martijn has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Based in London, Mary is part of the UK Institutional team at Invesco, working closely with UK pension funds to promote Invesco’s full range of investment strategies across all asset classes.

Prior to joining Invesco in January 2022, Mary worked for Russell Investments in a variety of roles within the institutional business. She started off in the operations and quickly worked her way into the institutional team focusing on developing and maintaining relationships with UK pensions schemes with primary focus on Fiduciary Management. Previously she worked in Client communications, marketing, and products development teams for organisations like Henderson (now Janus Henderson), Premal Group and Advanced Real capital. Mary did not choose the conventional route to building her career in the asset management industry. She has also had a range of roles in retail and consultancy while raising her family.

Mary graduated from Bayes Business School in 2012 in BSc (Hons) in Investment and Financial Risk Management. and has passed levels 1 and 2 of the CFA.

Michael is a partner and leads the DC practice at Eversheds Sutherland. He advises trustees, employers and providers in relation to all types of DC pension arrangements, focussing on large commercial master trusts and pensions consolidation.

As part of his business, Michael advises clients on regulatory and legal issues relating to investment and ESG considerations, including unit-linked policies and permitted links, TCFD reporting, responsible investment and stewardship activity.

Michael sits on the DC/Investment Sub-Committee of the Association of Pension Lawyers and is involved in several PLSA initiatives.”

Robert has twenty plus years experience at Scottish Widows,  most of this in customer facing roles leading teams who get out and talk to workplace savers.  He has lead on many high profile engagement initiatives from Pensions Awareness Day to Pension Engagement Season and runs many of Scottish Widows Adviser and Employer Events.  He’s been at the forefront of digital innovations and activity in the pension world.

As part of Lloyds Banking Group, Scottish Widows have a unique insight into how the cost of living crisis is affecting scheme members finances right across their entire financial journey and Robert has been instrumental in sharing this data and insight with advisers and employers.

Stephen is a Partner in LCP’s DC team and leads the development of LCP’s DC investment proposition and research alongside client advisory.

Stephen has advised DC pensions schemes for over 20 years. During his career, he has had the pleasure of advising some of the largest sponsored DC pension schemes in the UK. His work on private markets with several of these schemes received two innovation awards from Professional Pensions in 2018. Stephen has also advised eight different master trust arrangements during this career, including NEST.

He is actively involved in a number of industry organisations and taskforces which share the same ambition of improving the opportunity for better member outcomes. This includes working with the DCIF on their Advisory Committee and he is currently leading a workstream for the Productive Finance Working Group.

Simon Redman is a Managing Director of Client Portfolio Management at Invesco Real Estate. Simon is responsible for developing the business with DC Pension Funds, HNW and Retail Investors.

Simon began his investment career in 1990 and joined Invesco Real Estate in 2007. Prior to joining Invesco Real Estate, he was a board director of RREEF Limited, head of business development and an investment committee member of its multi-manager business. He also spearheaded the development of RREEF's European and Middle East private client business. Previously, Simon also worked for Aberdeen Property Investors developing new funds and structuring debt. He was on the board of the Regent Residential Partnership. Before Aberdeen, Simon assisted in developing Grosvenor's fund management business through structuring, launching and managing its two largest funds. He has extensive experience in real estate fund management, capital markets, fund structuring and marketing.

Simon earned experience and educational include being a chartered surveyor, holding a Land Management Degree and a Master of Business Administration from the John Cass Business School, specialising in corporate finance and international business and being a lecturer. At Invesco Real Estate, Simon is a member of the Global Private Markets Leadership Group, European Executive Committee and the European Investment Committee. He is based in the London office.