Aled is Chief Commercial Officer at Knowa, an AI-powered governance and meeting pack platform. Knowa has garnered the trust of over 500 pension schemes and over 5,000 industry professionals as it continues to set the benchmark for board governance in the pensions industry.

Before joining Knowa, Aled was a pensions actuary with KPMG (now Isio) for over 15 years.

Ally joined mallowstreet to head up the Insights division and is responsible for all research and analytics. She started her career as an Executive Producer for Marcus Evans’ investment summits. Ally was then invited to join EDHEC-Risk Institute to research East Asia’s pension systems, while studying for a Master’s degree in finance on a full scholarship. After this, Ally worked in analytics sales at Scientific Beta, Ned Davis Research and eVestment. Striving for a more strategic role, she found purpose in mallowstreet’s vision - to help create a better retirement for everyone. Since joining six years ago, she has worked on over 30 research projects, across the DB, DC and LGPS markets as well as the UK insurance industry.

Chris has been a Trustee CEO for over a decade, initially at Royal Mail and more recently National Grid, and is currently transitioning to become an Independent Trustee.  An experienced corporate leader working in the UK pension fund industry for over 20 years, his focus has been on strategy and risk management, governance effectiveness of trustee boards and enhancing and futureproofing internal management operating models.  At Royal Mail Chris led the transfer of £30bn of assets and corresponding liabilities to the UK Government in 2012. 

Chris is a PMI Trusteeship SIG committee member and previously chaired the PLSA’s DB Council and sat on the PLSA Board.  Chris holds a BSc in Actuarial Maths and Statistics (First) from Heriot Watt University, and is a keen yoga practitioner and piano player. 

Donna is passionate about improving the experience for members. Companies and members have more pensions, wider savings and benefits options than ever before, due to recent changes in pensions and advances in technology. Donna believes that these changes provide an opportunity to innovate and design new ways to engage people with their retirement savings. She loves listening to client, trustee, adviser and member feedback to ensure that Standard Life delivers experiences that truly meet their needs. All of this is centred on helping members towards better outcomes in retirement.

Having joined Standard Life 25 years ago, Donna is a qualified actuary and has helped to design and deliver Standard Life’s Workplace developments for over 15 years. She is a regular at roundtable discussions, industry working groups and events, and loves to share ideas to help shape the future of retirement savings in the UK.

Gareth joined the Trustee Board of the Pilots National Pension Fund in 2011 as a MNT and stayed in this role until his retirement at the end of 2018 when he remained on the Trustee Board as an ENT.

He undertook the PMI Unit 1 – Award in Pension Trusteeship in March 2019 and went on to complete Unit 2, Certificate in Pension Trusteeship during September 2021 and became a PMI Accredited Lay Trustee. He hopes to remain on the Board till the end of the current Recovery plan  to see if the Actuaries got their sums right.

Georgina is Head of Multi-Asset Strategies (MAS) UK team and Fund Manager within Invesco’s Henley based investment centre.
Georgina joined our company in June 2013 as a Product Director, became Research Director in 2016 then went on to become a Fund Manager in 2018. Georgina
became Head of the Multi Asset Strategies (MAS) UK team in January 2023.
Georgina commenced her career with HSBC in 2001 as an Equity Strategist. She went on to join the Equity Strategy team at Goldman Sachs in 2004 where she wrote
global equity and asset allocation research. Georgina gained asset management experience at Legal & General Investment Management, contributing to the overall asset
allocation outlook for the firm and multi asset funds. Before joining Invesco, Georgina was head of Equity Strategy, EMEA, at State Street Global Markets, producing and
presenting on asset allocation and equity research.
Georgina holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Bath.

Gillie is responsible for building strategic relationships with the professional trustee firms and spends the majority of her time getting to know them and learning about their clients’ needs and objectives, as well as educating them on what Cardano do. Representing the wider Group, Gillie has particular focus on sharing Cardano’s capabilities in fiduciary management, covenant, endgame, and sustainability.  Throughout her career Gillie has been involved in EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) initiatives, and for the last four years has been part of Cardano’s Disability Working Group – one of six networks within Cardano. Gillie is particularly proud that we are one of the founding participants in the 10,000 Able Interns programme for disabled students. Given Gillie’s EDI interest, she was understandably keen to be part of the team that partnered with mallowstreet to survey UK pension professionals on where they are on their EDI journeys. The third year findings are about to be published. Outside of work Gillie keeps chickens, bees, and is a keen wild swimmer.

Peter has been a member nominated trustee director for 13 years, working to ensure members interests are represented and that they achieve the best possible outcome that leads to a comfortable post work lifestyle. He has held positions on investment, governance, communications and risk committees for both DB and DC schemes ranging from £400m to £1.6bn. 

He strongly believes that members are at the very heart of the trustee role and works passionately with his board members and advisors to ensure members are fully informed about each step of their pensions journey from joining to taking benefits. Most recently involved in the buy in of benefits to DB members in preparation for eventual buy out This seeks to secure members benefits now an into the future.

Working for the construction industry, I actively work with my employer to run member events and seminars, seeking to ensure that access to knowledge and understanding of their scheme is easily and readily available. In doing this, I strive to ensure that they are in the best possible position to make informed decisions as their journey progresses.

Peter is an accredited lay Trustee of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI). He is also an active member of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT), leading its education and training working group.

Rich Fox is the Head of Public Policy for Schroders in the UK. Before joining Schroders Rich spent over 15 years at the Financial Conduct Authority in a range of senior roles focused on policy development and stakeholder engagement.

Robin Ellison is Chairman of the Cambridge Colleges’ Federated Pension Scheme, and chairs the Governance Committee of the Public Service Pensions Board. He has practiced as a solicitor for over 50 years, acting for major corporates, government agencies and foreign governments and continues to advise on the development of pensions and investment products. He has been an adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions. He wrote a monthly column on pensions law for 40 years for Pensions World and now publishes a monthly blog for Professional Pensions.

His study of regulation, Red Tape: managing excess in law, regulation and the courts is published by Cambridge University Press, and he is the author of a number of pension texts including the standard work on pensions law published in four loose-leaf volumes (Sweet & Maxwell), Pension Fund Investment Law (Bloomsbury Professional), The Pension Trustees Handbook (PMI, eighth edition 2024), and edits the Pension and Benefits Law Reports (Pendragon/Perspective). He now works with UK and international asset managers in relation to regulation and product design. He is currently working on a new book, Rulemaking, intended as a practical guide for regulators and lawmakers.

He is Visiting Professor in Pensions Law and Economics at The Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and gained his PMI Diploma in Pension Trusteeship in 2021.

Robin Jarratt has been a non-executive director of Rothesay since 2013. Rothesay insures the pensions of over 1 million British pensioners and has AUM of £73bn. Robin is also an industrial adviser to sovereign wealth fund GIC, and a senior adviser to G3. 

Robin retired from GIC in September 2024 after 20 years at the firm. His final role was Global of Private Credit, where he was responsible for all private credit investment in Europe, the US, and Asia. Before establishing the firm's private credit activities Robin was Head of Direct Private Equity, Europe. Robin has also been non-executive director of academic publisher Springer, aircraft leasing company Avolon, and roadside services business RAC. 

Senior Creative artworker and designer, with client service experience, I have a passion for branding and corporate communication - especially as it is expressed through visual design. My time in publication design for internal magazines and newsletters, meshed well with my love of clear typographic layouts, employee engagement strategy and desire to manage my own work end-to-end.

I my education began with a the practical arts of design with a N. Dip in Design, and then I completed it with the theoretical business side of a B Comm. in Marketing Management. As such I have an excellent understanding of both visual design, and the business objectives and marketing needs behind each brief.

Simon is an experienced governance specialist who works pro-actively with trustee boards in all aspects of pension scheme governance to ensure they adhere with best practice and their statutory duties. This includes trustee effectiveness reviews, and the design, implementation and maintenance of trustee business plans, risk registers and other governance documents.
In addition to his governance role, Simon works closely with our administration team, acting in a senior client account manager capacity for a selection of our largest clients.
As well as his client work, Simon is playing a key role in the development of new online tools to help make boards’ lives easier.

Uche is the CEO of Nelu Diversified Solutions (“Nelu”), a global employee benefits consulting, certification, and technology provider on a mission to make benefits accessible. With offices in the United States and United Kingdom, Nelu has garnered the attention of global plan sponsors and news outlets, as well as the recognition of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for its innovative approach and social impact.

Possessing diversified employee benefits experience, Uche began her career as an associate attorney at a large law firm with a well-regarded and sophisticated human capital and benefits practice. She then transitioned to consulting at Willis Towers Watson, where she drove benefits compliance and strategy results for Fortune 100 employers. Before founding Nelu, Uche led global retirement compliance at Boeing, which has some of the largest and most complex benefits plans in existence. At Boeing, she was also responsible for retirement and financial wellbeing policy, all federal agency interactions (U.S. Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation), and collective bargaining.

Uche received her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from Washington University in St. Louis. There, she was awarded the Dagen-Legomsky International Public Interest Fellowship and taught undergraduate-level international human rights courses in the Netherlands. Uche received her

B.A. in History and International Comparative Area Studies from Duke University.