Dalriada Trustees has appointed Stephen Soper as managing director for business delivery and operations.
Soper joins from PwC where he was a partner in the pensions team and was previously chief executive at the Pensions Regulator but also held several other roles. He also has experience in various executive positions at RBS, Zurich Financial Services and Aon.
He will work alongside the other executive team MDs including Adrian Kennett, Charles Ward and Shehzad Ahmad.
Soper’s role will include developing and implementing Dalriada’s ongoing strategy and commercial proposition to drive the continued growth of the company’s key business areas and support its clients in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and London.
Dalriada Trustees board chair Tom Lukic says: “We’re excited to welcome Stephen to Dalriada and into this new role. Stephen brings valuable experience both from across the pensions industry as well as from an operational perspective to our business. He will join the Dalriada Statutory Board as well as the Dalriada Exco where his skills and experience will complement the existing Exco team and help deliver on our ambitious growth targets for the business.”
Dalriada Trustees managing director Stephen Soper says: “I am delighted to be joining Dalriada at such an important and exciting time for the development of professional trusteeship. The pension industry continues to evolve and the trusteeship sector sits at the very core of the relationship with members and sponsors, playing an incredibly important role. I look forward to working with my new Dalriada colleagues on the challenges ahead.”
3173 (parent of Dalriada Trustees) CEO Bill Galvin says: “I am very pleased we have added someone of Stephen’s calibre to the leadership team. I look forward to Stephen working with the great people in Dalriada to meet our clients’ growing demand and their high expectations of us.”
