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TPAS appoints seven members to board

The Pensions Advisory Service has revitalised its board with the following appointments.

Alex Balfour is the head of new media at London 2012 (LOCOG) the organisation responsible for staging the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Colette Bewley is a TPAS volunteer adviser and a solicitor and board director of Burges Salmon.

David Clarke has over 20 years’ board level experience, both as a non-executive and executive director. His non-executive roles include: Forensic Science Service Ltd, Cumberland Building Society and PhonepayPlus Ltd.

Bill Galvin is interim chief executive of the Pensions Regulator and a member of the managing board of the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors.

Anthony Hodgkiss is an experienced senior board member with a background in the management of large organisations mainly in the public sector.

Rt Hon Baroness Hollis of Heigham was from 1997 to 2005 a DWP minister specialising in pension work. She has had three careers: as a university academic in Norwich, local authority leader and member of various public bodies.

Tilly Ross is global head of retirement plans at National Grid. Her board experience includes being chair of the CBI’s Pensions Panel, a member on National Grid’s global retirement plan committee and a director of Electricity Pensions. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Trade associations

Sally Bridgeland and Joyce Martindale have been elected as new members of the National Association of Pension Funds’ (NAPF) Investment Council. They replace Gerry Degaute from Royal Mail Pensions Trustees and Peter Morris from Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, who are retiring after having served on the council for two terms.

Sally Bridgeland is chief executive officer of BP Pension Trustees, the corporate trustee of the BP Pension Fund. She is an actuary, an elected member of the Institute of Actuaries’ Council and also a member of the UK actuarial profession’s Management Board. Sally served as a co-opted member of the NAPF’s Investment Council for two years.

For the past eight years Joyce Martindale has worked for the Railways Pension Scheme as head of investment implementation and change within the investment team. Over the past six years she has assisted the NAPF on a number of matters.

The complete list of NAPF investment council members is as follows: Ray Martin, DHL UK (NAPF investment council chairman); Mark Hyde Harrison, Barclays UK Retirement Fund (NAPF investment council vice chairman); David Astley, Trinity Mirror; Richard Barlow, Electricity Pensions Services; Sally Bridgeland, BP Pension Trustees; Kevin Carter, BBC Pensions Scheme; Andrew Chapman, John Lewis Partnership; Mark Gull, Pension Corporation; Andrew Kirton, Mercer; Arno Kitts, Henderson Global Investors; Martin Mannion, GSK; Nicola Mark, Norfolk County Council; Joyce Martindale, Railways Pension Scheme; Michael O’Brien, JP Morgan; Alick Stevenson, AllenbridgeEPIC Investment Advisers; Sue Timbrell, Law Debenture; Lindsay Tomlinson, BlackRock (NAPF chairman); Mike Weston, DMGT Pensions.

The European Fund and Asset Management Association has appointed Jarkko Syyrilä (who joined the organisation in 2006) to deputy director general.

Consultants

Yvan Legris is the chief executive officer UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa of the newly formed Aon Hewitt, with Andy Cox as chief executive officer for Aon Hewitt in the UK and Ireland.

Buck Consultants, a Xerox Company, has appointed Fraser Smart (who joined the firm in 2006) as managing director of its UK business. Fraser moved into the role from his position as Northern region director and head of Buck’s Edinburgh office.

Xafinity Claybrook has promoted Michael Payten to managing director, following the retirement of Ron Barker, the founder.

Neville McKay joins Hewitt from Towers Watson where he was responsible for advising some of the UK’s largest companies on their defined benefit schemes.

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