Issued: 23 August 2005
The Pensions Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Barry Smith to the Board of Directors. Barry joins in a member nominated capacity and is accompanied by Philip Edwards (member nominated), Alison Massie (member nominated) and Jackie Bliss (employer nominated), who have all been re-elected. Barry takes up the position vacated by Jean Dougherty who has retired.
The Board of Directors has also appointed Stephen Duckworth to fill the casual vacancy created following the resignation of John Hanlon. Stephen will serve on the Board for the remainder of the electoral year, and will then be eligible to stand again for election in 2006.
John Alleston, Chair of the Board stated "We are very happy to welcome Barry and Stephen and that Philip, Alison and Jackie will be remaining with us. They all have a wealth of experience which I am sure we will find invaluable in the coming years."
Elections are held each year for four Director posts (two member and two employer nominated). Directors can serve for a total of 12 years.
Biography of the new and re-elected Directors
Barry Smith has been involved with pension schemes as a trustee and administrator for 30 years. In the last 16 years, Barry has served as a trustee of a medium sized, directly invested pension scheme. He has linked members with trustees through the Pensions Liaison Group. Barry is currently Finance and Business Development Director for Save Haven Yorkshire and is responsible for financial management, information technology, business planning and development.
Philip Edwards is a retired Pensions Manager and was originally elected to the Board of Trustees in 2001, he also served on the Chair’s Committee until February 2003. Philip has also been a member of the Audit & Compliance Committee which he chaired in 2004. From 1984 to 1999 Philip was Pensions Manager of the Price Waterhouse Pension Fund. Previously he was the Deputy Pensions Manager of The Pensions Trust. He then took his retirement having spent 40 years working in pensions. Philip is a trustee of the British Red Cross Headquarters Pension Scheme and occasionally undertakes ad-hoc project work.
Alison Massie is Executive Director of Finance and IT Services at Trust Housing Association and has been actively involved in pensions and pension scheme administration for 20 years. Alison has been a Member Nominated Director of The Pensions Trust since 1994. She is a graduate of Heriot-Watt University in Economics, the University of Strathclyde in Accountancy and the University of Edinburgh in Business Administration. Her MBA Dissertation focused on occupational pension funds in the voluntary sector in Scotland.
Jackie Bliss is Non Executive Director and a Chartered Accountant with 16 years' Board level experience within the voluntary, commercial and public sectors. She has been a Director of The Pensions Trust for four years and holds a PMI Trustee Certificate. She is also Treasurer of Foundling Museum which displays works donated by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Between 2003-2004, Jackie devoted her time as a full time carer for her critically ill husband. Prior to this she was the Director of Finance and Administration for Coram Family, an award winning children’s charity.
Stephen Duckworth is now retired. He worked until 2002 for the National Housing Federation, the trade body for English housing associations, where he was a Director for twenty years, involved in finance policy and the strategic development of the organisation. Stephen has represented the Federation for the past four years on the Committee of the Social Housing Pension Scheme, the largest final salary scheme operated by The Pensions Trust, and represents that Committee as an observer on the Trust’s Investment Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant and was previously the Finance Director of a large London based housing association. Stephen has been Chair for the past year of an African and Caribbean elders day centre in West London, and is on the Board of the Association of Charitable Foundations. As a Church Treasurer, he introduced the Growth Plan for staff at his local church.
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