Independent Trustee Services

Tim Illston

Based in the South West Tim has over 30 years’ experience in pension law and was previously a partner in the pensions team at Burges Salmon. Tim has provided legal advice to a number of pension scheme boards including QinetiQ pension scheme, Westland pension scheme, First UK Bus pension scheme and Inchcape Motors pension scheme. His extensive experience in all areas of pension law provided a strong foundation for his various Trustee appointments. Tim is a regular speaker at numerous seminars and investment conferences. At Pi Trustee Services he provides additional governance and trustee support across a variety of projects including our increasing Sole Trustee capability.

Tim is a member of the Association of Pension Lawyers Group; a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute and a TPAS advisor.

Jenny Croxall

Jenny graduated from Oxford University in 2001 with an MA in Mathematics and qualified as an actuary in 2008. Jenny started her actuarial career at Garvins (later Barnett Waddingham) before moving to Trigon Pensions Limited. There she helped to grow the actuarial team and took on the role of Scheme Actuary. In 2015 Jenny joined Mathieson Consulting Limited, pensions on divorce specialists, as actuary and expert witness to a wide range of cases. In 2016 Jenny joined Fairfield to return to a client facing role.

Jenny is based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. In her spare time Jenny enjoys days out with her young family, reading and going to the cinema.

Sarah Marshall

Sarah graduated from Oxford University in 2007 with a Master’s in Mathematics and qualified as an actuary in 2011. Sarah joined Fairfield Pension Trustees Limited in 2015 to focus on Trusteeship and now acts as a Trustee on a number of DB and DC Schemes. Sarah combines her technical knowledge and pension experience with a clear and concise manner that adds value to any Trustee Board. Her experience includes acting as a Sole Trustee where her focus is on efficient scheme management and delivering the best member outcomes.

Based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Sarah enjoys spending time with her family and friends, seeing comedy shows and church bell ringing. Her black Labrador-Greyhound makes sure she stays fit.

Maggie Stoker

Maggie is an experienced Trustee in the pension and charitable sectors and has a background in investment management. As an asset manager she has wide-ranging experience running institutional pension client portfolios, after leaving asset management, she established a successful training consultancy to provide investment training to a variety of investment and business professionals. Clients included government departments, regulators, central banks and most of the investment firms in the UK and overseas, as well as administrators and data providers.

Experience that combines investments and training is especially valuable as a member of a Trustee Board whether considering asset allocation, manager selection or de-risking strategies, including LDI.

A leading committee member for over 20 years on the IIMR Investment Management Certificate Exam Panel and Examinations Committee. Maggie is a Fellow of the Society of Investment Professionals (FSIP), a member of the Chartered Financial Analysts’ Institute UK, the APPT and the Pensions Management Institute.

Nigel Hill

Nigel has worked in occupational pensions for over 40 years and for more than 25 years has been a professional trustee, either as a main board member, Chair or as sole trustee. His appointments have also included specialist interim appointments to manage complex negotiations and mitigate existing conflicts of interest.

His experience ranges from ensuring a Trustee Board meets the necessary compliance requirements through to highly imaginative and creative problem solving. He has also chaired schemes through buy-out and winding-up processes. His clients have been in the commercial, charity and public sector so he is used to working with a range of employers and understands their commercial pressures.

Nigel is a Council Member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees and has the Award in Pension Trusteeship from the Pension Management Institute. He will often be found keeping the score at cricket matches or watching his favourite rugby team getting beaten.