Colin joined the IGC (representing PTL Governance Limited) as Chair in July 2018 and has been one of the leading people in defined contribution (DC) pension governance in recent years. Colin has chaired the Aviva Master Trust since 2014 and has formerly been a member of other IGCs (Aegon and Blackrock) and other Master Trusts.
Colin also acts as trustee for several employer DC pension schemes and was Pensions Insight DC professional trustee of the year in 2017. He also acts as a trustee for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and has helped construct new standards for professional trustees. Colin is an actuary who moved into pensions governance after 25 years in pensions actuarial work.
Colin has two children who now live away from home, and lives in North Yorkshire although his work is based in many places. He enjoys reading, various sports, socialising and economics.
Robert served as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer for Royal London for 10 years between 2004 and 2014, developing an investment team which delivered outstanding investment performance during his time there.
He has worked in an executive capacity within the insurance and asset management industries for over 30 years and has directly managed various client portfolios both in stock selection and asset allocation together with overseeing the management of whole asset management businesses. Robert has a particular interest in how investment managers demonstrate added value over client benchmarks and how through good quality corporate governance processes they can hold corporate management to account. For the last few years he has developed a portfolio of non-executive and advisory roles covering asset management, insurance, pensions and charities.
Robert is married with four children, three of whom now live away from home with one still at university, allowing him more time to enjoy his interests which include travel, most sports and the theatre.
In all her roles, Marcia has pushed technology and simplicity to help employees understand and improve their pensions.
She is an independent non-executive director with over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, with roles covering pensions administration, strategy, IT and operations. She is currently on a range of Financial Services company Boards in the UK and France, spanning banking, asset management and insurance. The main part of her executive career was with Standard Life plc, where she was a member of the Group Executive Committee.
Marcia lives in Edinburgh with her family and is actively involved in the local Women in Banking and Finance group, mentoring young executives and small businesses.
Ian is an experienced pension professional who has helped manage many workplace pensions plans for several large UK employers. He is currently head of pensions at Nationwide Building Society.
Ian and his team at Nationwide are passionate about providing a quality service to the trustee boards, stakeholders and pension plan members they support. At the heart of this is a desire to help pension members understand better and engage more with their pension savings so they can maximize their financially security at retirement.
Ian says, “the pension savings industry needs to be better at helping savers and for me this includes embracing technology to deliver regular, personalised and above all simple messages which nudge people to take action or which signpost sources of further information, help etc.”
Outside work Ian lives in the Essex countryside spending as much time with family & friends, walking his dogs and going to the odd football, cricket and rugby match.
Gurmukh has been in the pensions industry for over 35 years. He has worked with two leading pension providers and spent 28 years with KPMG advising employers and trustee boards on all areas of pensions including administration, risk management, investment and communications strategy.
He is now a professional independent trustee and governance advisor for both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
Gurmukh says he is “pleased to see that the pensions regulator is at last giving more focus and attention to defined contribution pension savings to ensure they deliver value and good outcomes for members”.
Gurmukh is a passionate cyclist in his spare time and enjoys coaching his sons to play decent Hockey.
