Aviva has appointed Louise Williamson to be head of its master trust with immediate effect.
Williamson was previously head of governance for Smart Pension and has also worked for LifeSight, the master trust run by Willis Towers Watson.
Aviva has also promoted Geoff Marchment to the new role of head of master trust development. He was previously business development director with Aviva’s workplace pensions business and in this new position will be focused on building relationships within the market.
Both Williamson and Marchment will report into Emma Douglas, Aviva’s director of workplace savings and retirement.
Douglas welcomed both appointments and says Williamson will bring extensive master trust experience to a strategically important part of Aviva’s business.
In addition to these appointments Aviva has also made some changes to its master trust board.
Alan Whalley has been appointed chair of the member experience and communications committee. Whalley is an accredited professional trustee and was a consulting actuary for 35 years and held several senior leadership roles both at Willis Towers Watson and Mercer.
Andy Purvis has been appointed chair of the audit and risk committee and sits on the investment committee. He has over 30 years’ experience in pensions and 15 years in asset management. He set up and led the risk management function in a major life and pensions firm for over 15 years and has been the chief risk officer at both life and pensions and asset management firms. He is currently CEO of MT Capital Management.
Meanwhile Anna Eagles has been appointed as trustee director. Eagles is a professional trustee and is The Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation representative on the trustee board. She was also a pensions consultant at Willis Towers Watson for 22 years.
Jonathan Parker has also been reappointed for a second term as an Independent Trustee to the Aviva Master Trust Board as chair of the investment committee.
There is no change to the trustee chair role which continues to be held by Elizabeth Renshaw-Ames.
