Mark has a range of professional trustee appointments from solvent wind ups to ongoing schemes.
Mark has been in the pension industry since 1984, working with both corporate sponsors and trustee boards. He started his career with a specialist pensions company providing consultancy support services in their marketing and consultancy team.
Mark later become a senior consultant with two of the UK’s leading benefit consulting firms. His role involved being a client relationship manager and lead pension consultant for progressively larger and more complex client appointments. He also undertook a number of managerial roles and led a variety of special projects.
Mark joined us in 2000 and has a substantial portfolio of defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) trusteeships. He routinely works on covenant reviews, funding negotiations, investment strategy reviews, corporate transactions, liability reduction strategies, buy outs and scheme closures.
Mark has many outside interests including working for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme as an Expedition Assessor.
Qualifications: BSc Science/Maths.
“Stimulating debate around the trustee board table”
5 Jul 2019
You’ll all have heard about the need for competitive tenders for fiduciary manager appointments, but there’s a less well communicated new...
“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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