Growing demand for professional trustee services has led Vidett to further expand its team with three new appointments
The trustees and pension governance firms has hired Amanda Ford and Lisa Sweeney (pictured) as assistant managers, and Jacob Inerfield joins as a project manager in the governance team.
In he new role Ford will support clients with their governance, pensions secretarial and project work. She joins from Aon’s investment team where she was a technical analyst working on a range of different pension schemes, ranging from the schemes with just 28 members to large schemes with assets of more than £5bn.
Prior to this she worked at Axa, initially in their quotations department, before moving on to the DC pensions administration team.
Sweeney will support Vidett’s trustee team with governance and ongoing scheme requirements. She joins from Mercer UK where she was a pension consultant providing support to client managers and scheme actuaries, including scheme secretarial services, drafting governance documents and member communications as well as acting as a point of contact for trustees and advisers.
She began her career DWP as an administrative officer, later moving into pensions administration and spending 12 years working as a senior administrator for the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
Inerfield joins as a project manager in the Governance team, bringing with him significant experience in projects and operations across industries including charity, hospitality, local government and most recently, pensions. He joins from Capita where he was initially an operations manager in local government environmental health, trading standards and licensing, before working in pensions consulting.
At Capita he managed the restructure of 130+ small/medium pension administration schemes, working with their digital transformation project team to roll out a new online portal for members.
Vidett chief executive Wayne Phelan says: “We are delighted to welcome three new highly experienced team members. Lisa and Amanda bring significant pension expertise having worked in high profile pension roles on a range of schemes.
“Jacob is a skilled project manager who has implemented change and continuous improvement processes across all business operating functions. His pension consulting experience will be of particular value to our team.”
Vidett is a privately owned business, independent from any other provider of services to corporate pension and employee benefit schemes. It currently looks after over 475 clients with total assets in excess of £142bn and over 2.5 million scheme members.