Aon has appointed nine new partners to its wealth solutions business in the UK.
This include James Collier, a senior member of Aon’s defined contribution (DC) consulting team, Richard Gooch, a senior member of Aon’s corporate pension consulting team, and Gemma Cowan, a lead adviser in Aon’s corporate pensions practice.
Both Collier and Gooch have more than 20 years’ service with Aon, with Cowan working for the company for more than 15 years. Collier also leads the team’s people’s strategy and has payed a role in shaping the future of Aon’s DC offering.
Gooch providers strategic advice to companies across both the DC and DB sectors with particular expertise in endgame solutions and the impact of US GAAP on UK schemes. Meanwhile, Cowan advises a broad portfolio of companies on funding, governance and endgame strategies. Cowan is also a senior member of Aon’s member options and support team.
The other new partners include those working in the DB and risk transfer sector. This includes Hannah Brinton, who is a senior member of Aon’s UK risk settlement group, advising clients on defined benefit (DB) pension scheme derisking strategies. Brinton has advised on over £40bn of risk transfer projects and has led on deals ranging in size from £30m to multi-billions of pounds.
Andrew Shepherd has also been made a partner in the business. Shepherd is head of DB delegated clients in Aon’s UK investment practice. He is responsible for ensuring high-quality, proactive service delivery to Aon’s fiduciary management clients.
Aon has also promoted Steve Nettleship, a senior leader in Aon’s GMP equalisation team, providing strategic advice to some of Aon’s largest and most complex pension clients. He heads Aon’s GMP equalisation data team and has been instrumental in developing the latest data tools. Nettleship also leads the strategic data consulting team within Aon’s data solutions team, helping clients to deliver data projects efficiently.
In this same area, Aon has also made Matthew Pinkney a partner, who leads Aon’s UK pensions data solutions team, which specialises in data and administration change projects, including GMP equalisation implementations, data cleansing, benefit remediation and other systems implementation.
Aon has also made Kristle Barker a partner. Barker, a scheme actuary with over 20 years’ experience, and advises seven pension schemes on strategic and technical matters. Greg Tucker has also been promoted to be a partner. Tucker is a senior member of Aon’s newly formed insurance consulting team.
