Mr. George is a Partner at P/E Investments and has been with the firm since 2014. He focuses on investment solutions for Institutional investors globally. Prior to joining P/E Investments, Mr. George served in various senior positions at UBS Global Asset Management, Putnam Investments and Comerica, Inc. Mr. George is a CFA Charter Holder, a CAIA Charter Holder, and a Chartered Member of the CISI. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Mr. George serves as a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee, for United Lutheran Seminary Endowment Foundation. He also serves as a Trustee for World Medical Relief, Inc. Mr, George has previously served as a Trustee, and Chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, for the Board of Pensions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Baiju joined Bluefield in March 2020 as the UK Investment Director, leading investment activity in the UK across a range of renewable energy technologies such as solar, onshore wind, hydro and energy storage. During his time at Bluefield, Baiju has led on circa £400m of solar and wind transactions. Prior to Bluefield, Baiju has worked in the renewable energy industry since 2008, having been involved in over £900m of renewable energy transactions.

Christopher Bone is Head of Private Debt in Europe and Asia business unit. He is a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Direct Debt US Investment Committee and Co-Chairman of the Global Direct Debt Investment Committee, Chairman of the Direct Debt Europe Investment Committee and Chairman of the Direct Debt Asia Investment Committee. He has been with Partners Group since 2010 and has 23 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at AlpInvest Partners, RBS, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. Christopher holds a master's degree in finance from the University of Durham, UK and is also a CFA charterholder.

Fiona is Group Head of Pensions and Benefits at Rolls-Royce Plc. She has over 25 years’ experience of working in the industry, both as a consultant and leading in-house teams. At Rolls-Royce she has overall responsibility for a large global portfolio of DB and DC pension schemes, as well as benefit insurances. She also has a number of trustee and fiduciary roles.

While pensions and benefits are Fiona’s core professional experience, she is now increasingly passionate about broader Financial Wellbeing, both for Rolls-Royce plc colleagues and more widely.

Gareth is a managing associate in Linklaters’ pensions practice, with over 15 years' experience advising trustee and employer clients. Gareth has broad experience of all aspects of DB and DC legal issues 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, DC and liability management and has advised on a number of DC master trust transfers and buy-in transactions over the past few years. Gareth is a member of Linklaters’ Pensions Investment and DC Practice. He is also a full member of the Association of Pension Lawyers and sits on EPFIF’s Money Purchase Pension Forum and the investment committee of the Society of Pension Professionals.

George is a Senior Consultant at LCP, with more than 8 years’ experience in the pensions sector. He works with some of the UK’s biggest DC pension schemes, both own trust and master trust, as well as a range of corporate clients. George has led some of the industry’s most high-profile initiatives, such as the initial roll out the PLSA’s Retirement Living Standards across the pensions industry.

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 PASA CDC working group on member engagement and communications.

As an Investment Director at Fidelity International, I work closely on the FutureWise Investment Solution to continue its evolution and to improve its sustainability credentials and communication. I also manage strategic client relationships, particularly around their investment solutions, and consult on Fidelity's investment philosophy. With over 14 years of experience in the investment management industry, I have a clear and deep knowledge of the Defined Contribution (DC) investment landscape, as well as a strong network of life insurer and fund management contacts.

Prior to joining Fidelity International, I was the Head of DC Investment at Aon, where I was responsible for the development and alignment of UK DC policy and house views, the monitoring and enhancement of the DC product range, and the implementation of DC investment strategy advice across Aon Consulting Limited. I also contributed to the Productive Working Finance Group and the DC Investment Committee, and mitigated significant advisory risk and created business efficiency through the development of the advisory process. I have a proven track record of designing and launching market-leading fiduciary investment products, one of which won the PIPA award for Best DC Investment Provider of the year in 2015. I hold a Regulated Financial Planner (DipPFS) certification from the Chartered Insurance Institute, and a 2:1 degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Southampton.

Joanna Asfour is part of the Client Solutions business department, based in London. She has been with Partners Group since 2011 and has 16 years of industry experience. Her role is currently focused on working on private markets fund solutions for different client segments having set up many open ended and closed ended private markets products for the UK and US market. Joanna also spent 5 years in our Denver, Colorado office working with US clients and consultants. Joanna was part of the industry-led Productive Finance Working Group in the UK which aimed to develop practical solutions to the barriers to investing in long-term, less liquid assets. Prior to joining Partners Group, she worked at Citibank. She holds a master’s degree in international business and languages from Heriot-Watt University, UK.

John St-Hill is a Portfolio Manager within the Retirement Solutions Team of MASS. He focusses on the LifePath UK Defined Contribution Solution. He joined BlackRock following British Airways Pensions’ decision to appoint BlackRock as their OCIO and is responsible for supporting the Airways Pension scheme (APS) and New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) .

MASS is the investment group at the heart of BlackRock's portfolio construction, asset allocation, and active management ecosystem. MASS draws on the full toolkit of BlackRock's index, factor, and alpha-seeking investment capabilities to deliver precise investment outcomes and cutting-edge alpha insights. MASS constructs active asset allocation strategies and whole portfolio solutions across a wide spectrum of commingled funds, separate accounts, model portfolios, and outsourcing solutions in the wealth and institutional channels.

John joined BlackRock in 2021 from British Airways Investment Management (BAPIML) where he was Deputy CIO and Head of Matching Assets. Prior to joining BAPIML he was Deputy CIO at NEST, the government backed DC MasterTrust provider.

John has degrees from The Open University, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Imperial College. He holds the CFA and the FRM designations.

Kevin Murphy is a senior vice president and Head of Institutional Retirement & Strategic Growth for Franklin Templeton's US retirement, insurance & college savings division. He is responsible for driving institutional retirement sales and strategic growth initiatives focused on positioning Franklin Templeton for the future through visionary thinking, market-responsive strategies, and go-to-market execution plans and implementation. In addition to leading the team of sales professionals, Mr. Murphy also leads the firm's Health Savings Account (HSA) initiative.
Mr. Murphy's primary objective is to help more Americans achieve optimal retirement outcomes. He approaches this by offering thought leadership in retirement plan services and investments and working diligently as a key business partner to retirement plan advisory firms, consultants, and retirement plan sponsors. His expertise spans qualified plans, investments, fintech, current industry trends and Franklin Templeton products and services.
Mr. Murphy began his career in the financial services industry in 1999 and joined Franklin Templeton in 2011. Prior to that, he was a regional vice president on Columbia Management's Defined Contribution Investment Only team. He also served as vice president and regional sales director of corporate retirement plans at Wachovia Retirement Services.

Lee Hollingworth, Head of UK Retirement, joined Franklin Templeton in December 2021. Lee is responsible for developing and leading FT’s defined-contribution (DC) pensions business in the UK market.
He has over 20 years of industry experience and joined FT from Hymans Robertson, where as a partner, he led their DC consulting business.

Leonardo González joined Berenberg in 2023 and is a Business Development Manager (UK) responsible for building and fostering relationships with institutional investors, investment consultants and professional trustees. Leonardo has 14 years of experience in asset management within the UK institutional space, he was previously at Janus Henderson Investors where he was a Client Director and he spent several years at AllianceBernestein and Newton Investment Management in client-facing institutional roles. Leonardo holds a Master’s degree in Globalisation & International Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Economics, he is a holder of the Investment Management Certificate and the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Philipp Löhrhoff joined Berenberg in 2021 and is a portfolio manager in the Multi Asset team. In his previous roles he worked closely with institutional investors to structure, develop and place bespoke hedging and investment solutions. He is an expert for quantitative investment strategies as well as cross asset solutions with a particular focus on equity and fixed income. He spent several years at Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and Natixis in London. Philipp holds a Master‘s degree in Finance and Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Rosalind advises trustees and companies on all aspects of pensions law, including trust law and regulatory advice. She has specialist expertise in benefit change programmes, valuation negotiations (including involvement from The Pensions Regulator), and funding (including contingent assets), de-risking, investment and governance issues.

An experienced pensions professional, Sharon comes with 30 years’ DC experience consulting across a wide range of disciplines. Sharon joined Scottish Widows in September 2020 and works closely with the Scottish Widows IGC and Master Trust Trustee Board – Sharon has unrivalled insight and well-rounded experience gained from her time in consultancy as well as from being on the provider “front line”.
Sharon is an Accredited Professional Pension Trustee and a member of the PLSA Master Trust Committee; she also Chairs the ABI Master Trust Working Group and is a member of the Scottish Widows Master Trust Scheme Strategist Committee.

Sandie is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead at TPR having joined the organisation in June 2022. She most recently worked at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as the Head of Policy Transformation and Diversity & Inclusion. She is a CIPD accredited HR professional with over 10 years’ experience in the public sector. Over the course of her career, she has worked in the Civil Service and National Health Service leading on Diversity & Inclusion, Reward, employee relations, change and project management.

Steve Webb was Minister of State for Pensions between 2010 and 2015. During that time he implemented major reforms to the state pension system, oversaw the successful introduction of automatic enrolment and played a key role in the new pension freedoms implemented in April 2015. He was awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s honours in 2017.

Following his time in Parliament he worked for Royal London for four years before joining LCP as a partner in 2020, where he has campaigned successfully to secure an estimated £2 billion in backpayments for over 100,000 women who had been underpaid state pensions. More recently he has been working on proposals for reform of the DB funding system and on innovative ideas for decumulation in DC pensions.

Yaqub Ahmed is Global Head of Retirement and co-Head of US Retirement, Insurance Sub-Advisory & 529 College Savings for Franklin Templeton. In this role he is responsible for overseeing
Franklin Templeton's U.S. institutional and advisory defined contribution, insurance sub-advisory, 529 businesses & market strategies. His responsibilities
include leadership on strategic partnerships/joint ventures, M&A, FinTech, public policy and regulatory matters related to the broader U.S. retirement &
insurance market.
Yaqub serves on the Franklin Templeton Management Committee and on the Fiduciary Trust International Board of Directors and Audit Committee.
In addition, he is a member of the MMI Institutional Steering Committee, the DCIIA Public Policy Committee (emeritus), SPARK Institute Board of Directors,
Board of Advisors for EACH Enterprise, LLC (emeritus), IRI Asset Management Committee (emeritus) and NAPA Leadership Council (emeritus).
Yaqub also serves on the Board of Directors for The Florida Aquarium and the historic Tampa Theatre.
He has over 25 years of experience in financial services, with a focus on the institutional retirement & insurance markets. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton in
2009, he served as managing director for Columbia Management's investment-only division responsible for overseeing both the U.S. defined contribution
(Institutional & Retail) and insurance subadvisory businesses.
Mr. Ahmed holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University. Mr. Ahmed has been named as one of the "100 Most Influential" in the defined contribution
industry by InvestmentWires.com for eight years and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and client forums.
Yaqub and his wife Caroline are proud parents to 3 very active boys.