Gillian acts as secretary to the trustees for several clients and manages pensions project work.
Gillian worked in pensions in Edinburgh and South Africa before joining Punter Southall in 1999. She became a Principal in 2002 and was responsible for the Guildford office administration team.
Gillian was the driving force behind initiatives to obtain the Plain English Crystal Mark for member communications and the annual internal controls review. Latterly, she was Head of Administration Client Services and implemented auto-enrolment for clients.
Gillian has acted as a scheme secretary since 2009 and transferred to us in 2014 to focus on this role.
She is a PMI Fellowship Network Ambassador and is also secretary of the NAPF Thames Valley committee.
Gillian’s project management and organisational skills come in handy outside of work too, whether that’s for planning events like her son’s three day wedding or navigating her way around Moscow and St Petersburg.
Qualifications: Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (FPMI), Master of Arts
“Declarations of intent: a case of regulatory grip tightening”
20 Jun 2019
With all the recent high profile cases in the press - Arcadia, BHS and Carillion being the most obvious – it’s no surprise the government wants to...
“Big pension schemes: the view from our trustee secretaries”
13 Jun 2019
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“Trustee board performance: what reviews are we seeing?”
3 Jun 2019
I think it is safe to say all the pension trustees and pension managers I’ve spoken to have different views on what they’re looking for from an...
