I have worked in the pensions industry focusing on defined contribution plans for over 20 years and feel privileged to be helping schemes and sponsoring companies to further develop their approach to pension savings for their members and employees. I joined LCP at an unprecedented time, where trustee and member support is paramount and I am very pleased to have joined an organisation fully focused on supporting their clients and their members. My role is to lead the future development of their DC investment proposition and research, while continuing with client advisory work to help support the fast growing LCP DC client base. I left Mercer in May 2020 just short of five years where I had the pleasure (and consulting challenge) of leading our advice and advisory projects to a number of Mercer’s largest and most important DC arrangements, including the largest master trust in the UK. We picked up seven industry awards during my time there which included two at the Professional Pensions 2018 awards for innovation covering our work on private market access, new transition techniques and billion pound change projects. In my previous role, I was Head of DC Investment Advisory at KPMG Pensions and led the DC Investment team, managing the research, client work and pitch opportunities. Prior to KPMG, I worked at Aon Hewitt, originally starting out in Bacon & Woodrow’s investment practice. I am an active contributor to the development of DC in the industry [when time allows] and am involved in a number of organisations and taskforces which share the same ambition of improving member outcomes. This includes working with the DCIF on their Advisory Committee and also broader industry roles such as the consultant input to the Patient Capital initiative work with HM Treasury.