Jill is an experienced executive and non-executive director with an extensive background in pensions. She spent 20 years working in leadership roles with a pensions remit across a range of large, consumer facing organisations, her corporate last role being Executive Director at Virgin Media. Jill made the move to trusteeship in 2013 and has spent the last ten years as an independent trustee, chairing defined benefit pension trustee boards and earning her accreditation as professionally qualified pensions trustee. She served as a board member and senior independent director with NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) for seven years between 2015 and 2022 and she currently sits on the board of the Fidelity Master Trust.

Chris has over 40 years’ experience in the investment management industry, almost all of which has been in senior investment roles. Formerly Chair of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, which has c.£12bn of assets and 135,000 members, Chris was Chair of HSBC Asset Management (UK) until June 2020. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Pension Protection Fund, a Director of People’s Investment Limited and a Trustee of the Science Museum Foundation. Chris began his career with Prudential Portfolio Managers (now M&G) where he worked in a variety of investment management roles, ultimately as Director of Investment Strategy and Research. During his career he held positions as Global CIO of AXA Investment Managers and CEO of AXA Sun Life Asset Management. In May 2003 he joined HSBC’s asset management business as Global Chief Investment Officer.

Andrew is the Professor of Asset Management at Bayes Business School. Before joining Bayes, he was a Senior Research Manager in the Monetary Analysis wing of the Bank of England, which supported the work of the Monetary Policy Committee. Andrew also worked as the Financial Economist for Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM), where he was responsible for the group’s investment process and where he began the development of LGIM’s initial Liability Driven Investment offering. Andrew is co-author of The Trustee Guide to Investment and has published extensively in both academic and practitioner journals on a wide range of economic and financial market issues. In a survey published in 2007, Andrew was ranked as the world’s ninth most prolific finance author of the past fifty years. Andrew has served on a range of pension trustee and investment committee boards, including the GEC Marconi, Magnox and Amey pension boards and on the Investment Oversight Committees of Standard Life and Quilter plc.

Emily is currently Chief Financial Officer of BT’s Networks organisation. Prior to this, she was BT’s Chief Economist, providing economic thinking and analysis to further key commercial, regulatory and strategy goals, wherever required in the BT Group. Emily has previously been a director at a City law firm and, before that, an economic consultant, working for clients in a range of sectors including energy, financial services and communications. In all her roles, Emily has been involved in launching and embedding a range of gender diversity initiatives.

Nigel is a former union officer with over 20 years of experience dealing with pensions. He was a National Officer of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) for 31 years until July 2020. In that role, Nigel was the national lead for occupational pensions in telecoms, IT and financial services sectors for two decades. This included negotiating with BT on all pension issues. Nigel has served on the Members’ Panel at the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) since 2016. Previously he was a member of the Airwave Solutions DC Pension Governance Committee and a Trustee of the CWU 2000 Pension. Nigel was appointed to the Prison Service Pay Review Body in 2023 and is a member of the CWU and the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners.

Ricky Henderson spent 45 years with BT Group and was a Communication Workers Union (CWU) representative for most of his career, before leaving Openreach in June 2024 and becoming a BTPS pensioner. He served as a local government Councillor on City of Edinburgh Council for 23 years fulfilling a number of senior roles. He has also been a non-executive director at NHS Lothian and is currently a member of Employment Tribunals Scotland as well as Chair of the CWU Edinburgh, Dundee & Borders branch.