The latest hires, promotions and appointments for the week ending 2 May 2025.
Hymans Robertson has appointed Sachin Patel as its new head of corporate defined benefit (DB). He is currently head of corporate DB endgame strategy for the consultancy, where he has worked since 2014.
Leonard Bowman, head of corporate consulting at Hymans, said Patel had played a key role in the company’s development and innovation.
In his new role, Bowman added, Patel would help corporate clients “navigate the array of opportunities available” and can “respond to, and benefit from, the evolving regulatory and policy landscape”.
Patel said: “The DB landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, with many schemes now in a significantly stronger funding position and able to explore strategic options that were previously out of reach.
“With the upcoming Pension Schemes Bill and the potential for substantial changes in the UK DB sector, it’s essential that the voices of all stakeholders, particularly corporates and individual members, remain central to the conversation.”
Real assets chiefs named at People’s Pension
Earlier this week, The People’s Pension named Marija Simpraga and Raymond Wright as co-heads of real assets to boost its efforts to allocate up to £4bn to private markets. The master trust aims to invest 10% of the “growth” assets in its default fund in private markets by 2030. Read the full story here.
New partners at XPS across DB, admin, ESG and cyber
XPS Group has promoted 135 people across its business including five new partners. The promotions took effect on 1 April and were made public earlier this week.
The new partners are:
- Dave Boulton, head of XPS’s cybersecurity unit;
- Louisa Lawton, operations manager for DB pensions administration across the Bristol, Reading and Birmingham offices;
- Alex Quant, head of the environmental, social and governance research team;
- Karen Sloan, head of the Belfast actuarial team and lead for XPS’s specialist GMP equalisation calculations team; and
- Brian Woolnough, head of pensions administration operations in the company’s London and Chelmsford offices.
Ben Bramhall, co-chief executive officer at XPS Group, said the promotions were “a testament to the breadth of talent across XPS, our commitment to investing in our people and the exciting opportunities ahead”.
