Biographies

Frances is currently general manager of the in-house team administering Shell's five UK and Bermudian pension schemes, whose assets range from £300,000 to £14 bln. The largest has 44,000 members and was founded in 1947; the smallest is a new DC scheme which has 238 members and opened in March 2013. She has worked for Shell for 19 years but has only been in pensions for a year. Her recent move was from corporate treasury where she was looking after Shell's internal corporate structure and intra-Group funding. She trained as a mathematician at Cambridge University and joined Shell after doing postgraduate work. She has had a variety of finance jobs in the UK and the Netherlands ranging from project economic s to Group planning. She is an avid bridge player who has played for the England Open team and a keen but incompetent skier.

Director Pensions at Akzo Nobel with global responsibility for the strategic direction and governance of the Company's pension arrangements: €17 billion DB and €5 billion in DC plans (including a significant collective DC plan in the Netherlands). APMI qualified with over thirty years in the pensions and financial services industry including time with the Prudential, LCP, Lloyds TSB and Schlumberger.

Joy Moore was appointed Chief Executive Officer - BBC Pension Trust Limited on 7 January 2013. She has responsibility for managing the Pension Scheme on behalf of the Trustees, driving strategy and policy changes and leading the Executive Team. The pension scheme at BBC Pension Trust Limited has assets of c£10bn and a membership in excess of 57,000.

Joy has some 30 years’ experience in the pension industry having previously been employed by RWE npower, where she was also a Trustee. She has an earlier period of service with the BBC and before that with British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.

Joy has served on the NAPF Retirement Policy Council from 2005 to 2013 and was Chairman of that from 2009-2011.

Head of Pensions and a member of the Business Services leadership team at United Utilities Group PLC (a FTSE 100 utility company).

Corporate responsibility for all aspects of pension provision including chairing the company Pension Risk Management Group, commercial negotiations, management of the pension team and an increasing focus on DC

A regular speaker at conferences with c25 years in the pensions industry, 16 of which was spent in a consultancy environment (split roughly equally between third party administration and consultancy), a Fellow of the Pensions Management Industry, a director of Electricity Pensions Limited and former Chairman of the Manchester Group of the NAPF.

I am a commercial pensions professional with experience at a senior level in a FTSE100 company (Unilever) and a leading employee benefits consultancy. As Head of Trustee Services I work alongside the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Global Pensions to lead the UK and Ireland Pensions Leadership Team. I am responsible for the strategic development and operational delivery of all Trustee areas, including governance, funding, benefit administration risk management and the management of key providers and advisers. I lead Unilever’s in-house pensions team, principally providing services to our Trustees but also, within conflict management protocols, providing pro-active support of pension services to the Company.

I have been involved with and provided leadership on a number of key projects, such as the re-design and evolution of the trustee governance framework and approach, significant and high profile benefit reviews in the UK and Ireland, establishment of internal investment services Company, several actuarial valuations and the review of outsourced administration services.

Nigel is based in Farnborough, Hampshire and leads the Group Pensions Team. Nigel has been employed within the BAE Systems business since 1984. Initially he joined to help privatise the Royal Ordnance factories. The Royal Ordnance business was bought by British Aerospace and Nigel remained with the Group and was made Pensions Director in 1994. British Aerospace merged with Marconi Electronic Systems to form BAE Systems in 1999.

Nigel’s prime responsibility is the management of the UK pension schemes, although he also spends a significant amount of time on international pensions (principally the US). He provides support to the Trustees and in addition provides advice to the Company and is the chief interface between the various Trustee Boards and the Company. The BAE Systems group has been active in the M&A area and therefore Nigel continues to spend a large amount of his time on M&A activities.

Away from work Nigel is a keen sports fan and plays golf.

Matthew Arends is an actuary with Aon Hewitt and has over 20 years’ experience advising boards of trustees and corporates in relation to their defined benefit pension arrangements.

He has a particular interest in the management of pension scheme risk, with emphasis on the operational as well as financial aspects of risk management. Matthew is a regular speaker at conferences, authored "Pension Scheme De-risking - A Practical Guide" and co-authored "Global Pension Risk Survey 2013 – UK Survey Findings".

Matthew is the Secretary to the Pensions Executive Forum. He holds a MA in mathematics from Cambridge University, is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and is based in London.

Yvan Legris is the Global CEO of Consulting at Aon Hewitt. The business unit covers Retirement and Investment consulting, Performance Reward and Talent, Mergers & Acquisition Solutions and Communication consulting.

Prior to his appointment to his current role in February 2012, Yvan was the CEO for Aon Hewitt in Europe Middle East and Africa. Yvan also is a member of Aon’s Executive Committee.

Before the merger between Aon and Hewitt, Yvan served as co-president of Hewitt’s global Consulting business.

Yvan joined the firm in 1985 training as an actuary in London, eventually leading operations in the West Indies. He left the firm for a few years to start and manage a successful joint venture in Mauritius before returning to London to oversee the firm’s client development efforts in the UK. He also served as UK Managing Director before moving to his global role with Hewitt

Yvan graduated with first class honors from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He is based in London.