Appointments update - 17 April 2020

The People’s Pension has appointed Baroness Jeannie Drake CBE and Mark Condron to its board of trustees.

Baroness Drake is a former member of the Turner Pension Commission and has also served on the board of the Pension Protection Fund, the board of The Pensions Advisory Service, and was acting chair of PADA, the forerunner to Nest. Condron has three decades of experience at Mercer, where he was a scheme actuary, senior partner, and non-executive member of the company’s audit committee, while he is also an independent trustee on Heineken’s Scottish & Newcastle Pension Plan.

Dalriada Trustees has hired Alison Stewart and Paul Tinslay as professional trustees.

Stewart, who will work at the trustee services provider’s Glasgow office as a senior professional trustee, has more than 34 years of experience in pensions and has served as a partner and national operations leader for UK wealth at Mercer. Tinslay will join Dalriada’s London office after having worked in the pensions industry for 32 years. He has previously held roles including head of pensions governance at JLT/Mercer, head of client relationship management at AFCA and head of pensions at Towry Law and Wentworth Rose.

Law Debenture business Pegasus has appointed George Norval as senior pensions executive.

Norval, who has devoted over two decades to international pensions and benefits, general insurance, and finance, spent eleven years as group pensions and insurance manager for Berendsen. During this time he managed defined benefit (DB) assets worth £500m and defined contribution (DC) assets worth £100m, as well as serving as chair to the trustees of the Irish DB Pensions Scheme and chair of the DC governance committee. He has also held senior pensions roles at Kingfisher Plc, NM Rothschild & Sons and The Grosvenor Group.

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