Pi Consulting provides specialist independent consultancy to occupational pension schemes, trustee boards and employers. This includes the provision of independent pension scheme secretaries, operational reviews of both in-house and outsourced pension teams, adviser review and selection, and specialist governance support including trustee board effectiveness reviews and specialist training.
Our team of highly qualified and experienced individuals work with trustee boards and their advisers to deliver the very highest standard of service.
We are a team of committed, confident and experienced individuals who share a common interest in delivering an excellent service to our clients. We take pride in what we do and in working together as a cohesive team.
We base our core values upon:
These values are integral to the whole organisation and as such are reviewed by our team on an annual basis.
Whilst our clients may range from FTSE100 companies to small charitable organisations, we always look to deliver our expertise and support in a bespoke, friendly and flexible manner.
In order to maintain our independence and provide clients with a truly objective service, we do not offer actuarial, administration, legal, investment, accounting or regulated financial advice.
If you have any questions or queries, get in touch today.
Meet some of the faces behind our company
Tom is an experienced pensions professional who combines his technical knowledge with a practical approach to managing pension schemes. APMI certified, Tom started his pension career in pensions administration before moving into consultancy. He has worked with a number of clients where he has provided a range of services all of which have been designed to offer robust governance and ensure Trustees are secure in the knowledge that their pension scheme is being managed effectively.
Tom’s attention to detail and technical background means he’s able to provide scheme secretary services and project management support to Trustee Boards as required. His approachable manner and enthusiasm for delivering a quality service makes him a valued member of the team.
Since joining Pi in 2001, Gill has been central to Pi’ s successful operation and growth. Formerly Managing Director, Gill now acts as Company Secretary to the Pi Partnership Board as well as overseeing all of Pi’s compliance procedures. She is a member of the GDPR response team and in her role as Compliance Officer, she is part of the Governance & Compliance Committee (GCC). The GCC reports to the Pi Trustee Board and is instrumental to the oversight and management of our Sole Trustee appointments. Gill is responsible for the delivery of our AAF 02/07 reporting and checking our internal processes meet all required standards – ensuring we deliver the very highest standard of service to our clients is central to her approach to compliance management.
Elizabeth is a highly qualified pensions professional who started her career at Mercer and has over 15 years’ experience in the industry. She has provided advice to both trustees and companies in relation to DB and DC schemes as a benefit consultant, an actuary, an investment consultant, and a fixed income specialist. Her previous role included fund manager analysis and selection as well as pension scheme governance design.
Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. She maintains an interest in training and has had a close involvement in the education and CPD processes for actuarial and PMI students.
Huw is a pension consultant and a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries with over 35 years’ experience in the pensions industry. In a varied career at Mercer he has provided advice to the trustees of both DB and DC schemes as benefit consultant, actuary, and investment consultant. He has also acted as a pension trustee on a portfolio of Small Self-Administered Schemes.
Since joining Pi in April 2019 he now provides technical support to a number of our independent trustees as well as working on a range of specialist governance projects. He is a regular contributor of articles and speaker at pension events.
Lucy has over 30 years’ experience in the pensions industry and as a highly knowledge scheme secretary has managed a number of complex projects. Prior to joining Pi, Lucy was Secretary to the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund and the House of Commons Members Fund. She was responsible for governance and strategy working closely with the trustees of each fund and senior management within Parliament and Government.
In addition as Head of Corporate Member Services within the House of Commons, Lucy led the Corporate Services response to Member requirements and General Election response so is used to meeting high standards under pressure. As part of her role as a scheme secretary she is also experienced in running public sector procurement exercises.
Prior to joining Pi Consulting, Temi spent 18 years with a major benefit consultancy, where she was responsible for providing secretarial and governance services to a portfolio of clients. With a background originally in administration, Temi has a strong understanding of all aspects of scheme management and regularly presented administration reports at trustee meetings in her previous role as an administrator. She has a first-class honours in Business Management and a Diploma in Retirement Provision from the Pension Management Institute.
Simon has over 10 years’ experience in the pensions industry, primarily working for leading third-party administrators. He is passionate about delivering a first-rate service to clients and has extensive knowledge of DB and DC benefits administration.
Prior to joining Pi, Simon managed a large DB administration team that focused primarily on project delivery. These projects included scheme valuation and bulk buy-outs, as well as regulatory exercises such as GDPR and GMP reconciliation.
As scheme secretary support, Simon will help ensure meeting management and governance projects are delivered as efficiently as possible.
Susan is Head of Consultancy and has over twenty five years’ experience in the pensions industry, working in benefits consulting, administration, secretariat services, and pensions management. She now provides secretariat services to a number of trustee boards providing a wide range of benefits.
Previously, Susan worked in a variety of roles within Mercer, undertaking various management duties. She has worked with a range of trustee boards, employers, and advisers in helping to establish appropriate and proportionate governance frameworks.
Since joining Pi, Susan has spearheaded our DC governance proposition for trustees and employers. A prominent member of the pensions industry, she is a Fellow and Council Member of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), for whom she is a regular speaker. She also holds the PMI Certificate in Pensions Automatic Enrolment.
Sandra provides a range of trustee board services including scheme secretary, trustee governance, and adviser reviews. She has over 15 years’ experience in the pensions industry mainly as a key member of in-house pension teams including Guardian Royal Exchange, Scottish Equitable, GUS, Pearson, and most recently GlaxoSmithKline prior to joining Pi Consulting in October 2016.
In her role as pension scheme secretary she has been involved in the design of governance procedures and protocols as well as the implementation of risk management frameworks. Sandra provides specialist secretarial support for mainboards and a range of committees designed to cover a number of complex scenarios. She is also experienced in the use of web-based documentation and governance systems.
Sandra is an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and has a Degree in Mathematics with Theoretical Physics.
Roger is Head of Trusteeship at Pi Trustees and has over thirty five years’ experience in the benefits industry, initially at large consultancies such as Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson) and Mercer. He has also undertaken a number of lengthy interim pension manager assignments.
Roger now acts as Independent Chair to a number of trustee boards and also provides additional support on an interim basis where trustee boards are facing particular challenges. His expertise includes helping address conflicts of interest, dealing with the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and managing complex valuations.
His keen commercial awareness enables him to deliver a pragmatic, proportionate, and disciplined approach to all his professional, independent trustee appointments.
Roger is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and is on the committee of the PMI Trustee Group and a regular speaker at PMI seminars.
Lynn is an experienced pension professional, having spent thirty years’ in the pensions industry. Lynn has worked with a number of large UK consultancies, most recently being a Scheme Actuary with Aon Hewitt. She has supported trustee boards through significant events such as funding negotiations, implementation of LDI strategies, scheme mergers, corporate transactions, buyout of scheme liabilities, and insolvency situations.
Since 2010, Lynn has focused on her role as an independent trustee and specialises in working with schemes where her pragmatic and proportionate approach can help ensure efficient management of trustee business. She has also managed complex projects including assessment for Pension Protection Fund entry and the design and implementation of a trust-based defined contribution arrangement.
Lynn is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Since joining Pi in 2003 as a senior consultant, Lisa has worked primarily on benchmarking and procurement projects, as well as providing secretariat services and electronic governance consultancy to a number of trustee boards. She has spearheaded Pi´s use of IT to enhance our overall procurement proposition, where appropriate.
Lisa has over twenty five years´ experience in the pensions industry, previously working at Noble Lowndes/Mercer where she started her career in pensions administration before moving into consultancy in 1996. Lisa has extensive experience in working with a wide range of advisers, managing client relationships, and overall project management.
She is responsible for developing our robust research processes and the efficient distribution of knowledge internally and as part of this research, has been involved in numerous meetings with administrators and actuaries from the leading consultancy service providers.
Julia has provided secretarial and pensions management services to a range of clients since Pi’s establishment in 2000. Her clients have ranged in size from small private companies to global companies with multi employers, where her specific project management skills have been utilised to ensure agreement of triennial valuations, the successful outcome of a corporate restructure, a number of asset transitions including DB and DC funds, and assistance on a buy-out. She also has responsibility within Pi for the management of asset and/or administration transition projects.
Julia joined Sedgwick Noble Lowndes/Mercer in 1994 with operational and project management responsibility for a number of new pensions initiatives.
Julia is a co-founder and a Director of Pi. She holds the Pensions Management Institute Certificate of Trusteeship and was Chairman of one of the Raising Standard of Pensions Administration working parties that became the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA).
Anne has worked in the pensions industry for approaching 20 years, initially with a global benefit consultancy where she focused on member communications. Since joining Pi in 2004 she has been involved in providing independent secretariat services, the development of our in-house electronic governance management, and providing specialist project management and support for a variety of governance projects, including the design and delivery of trustee assessment programmes.
Anne currently provides independent secretariat support to a number of trustee boards. Her experience in this area ranges from acting as minute secretary to delivery of a full secretariat service, covering both DB and DC benefit bases and multiple employers. She has also worked on a number of Pension Regulator appointments, overseeing the transition from ongoing status to Pension Protection Fund assessment.
Anne has recently been awarded the PMI Certificate in DC Governance.
Angela has over thirty years’ experience in scheme management. Prior to joining Pi Consulting in 2009, as a Group Manager within Mercer she had reporting responsibilities for 4 administration team leaders and up to 40 staff and was also a member of their “Best Practice Group”.
Since joining Pi she has been involved in a variety of project based appointments, including some emergency appointments where she has dealt with complex issues concerning property holdings, non regulated investments and some highly litigious situations. Her project management skills are essential in ensuring the best possible outcomes as efficiently as possible.
Angela therefore combines a practical approach to administration and extensive experience of design and implementation of efficient process delivery. She was a member of one of the Government’s “Speeding up Process” working parties and is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute
Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and Head of Business Development for both Pi Consulting and Pi Pension Trustees. She is the Director with responsibility for GDPR and works closely with the Pi compliance team.
Amanda has over twenty five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of the Executive Management Team. Amanda provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, governance and transition management, master trust due diligence, and review process.
As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance and was a past Prince 2 practitioner.