PARTICIPANTS Paul Bucksey


Chief investment officer Smart Pension


Before joining Smart Pension in 2019, Paul Bucksey was a managing director at Black- rock (and subsequently Aegon), leading the UK defined contribution workplace pension business. He has also held senior positions at Fidelity, AXA and PwC.


Steve Delo Chair Pan Trustees


Steve Delo is a chair of trustees for several defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) schemes, including The People’s Pen- sion. Prior to this, his career spanned senior roles in consulting and asset management. Delo has experience of DB funding negotia- tions, covenant evaluation, conflict manage- ment, regulator engagement, DC governance, trustee team building, scheme restructuring, asset-backed funding, setting investment strategies, de-risking and adviser reviews.


Veronica Humble Head of DC investments Legal & General Investment Management


Veronica Humble is responsible for invest- ments and ESG within the insurer’s DC business. She sits on the L&G Mastertrust’s investment committee and is an investment adviser for LGIM’s DC clients. Humble has 10 years of service at LGIM, having worked in several investment roles before joining the DC business. Prior to this, she worked as a quantitative analyst at a hedge fund and as an asset manager.


Lydia Fearn Principal


Lane Clark & Peacock


Lydia Fearn re-joined LCP as a principal in the DC team in May to advise schemes on their investment, communication and wellbe- ing strategies as well as scheme design. Previously, Fearn was the head of pensions consulting at Capita and led DC and financial wellbeing at Redington. She has also worked for Barclays and Hewitt Associates (now Aon) where she was responsible for providing investment advice to DB and DC schemes.


Joanne Segars OBE Chair of trustees Now Pensions


Mitesh Sheth MBE


Chief investment officer for multi-asset Newton Investment Management


Mitesh Sheth has had oversight of Newton’s multi asset and fixed income teams since join- ing the firm in February. He is also responsible for the quantitative multi-asset team in San Francisco. Sheth joined the firm from Reding- ton, where he was chief executive, ending a nine-year stint with the consultancy. He also has Henderson Global Investors, Aon and Willis Towers Watson on his CV. Sheth sits on the Diversity Project’s advisory board, is a member of the CEO sponsor group for the gender workstream, an LGBT Great #50for50 ally and an executive sponsor of the Race & Ethnicity workstream.


Sarah Smart Chair


The Pensions Regulator


Sarah Smart has chaired The Pensions Regulator since June 2021. An experienced non-executive and independent trustee, Smart has a 20 year-plus track record, which saw her chair TPT Retirement Solutions for eight years, work with the London Pensions Fund Authority and Lothian Pension Fund, sit on the investment and funding committee for Unilever’s UK retirement fund and chair the Financial Times Pensions Governance Com- mittee. A chartered accountant by training, she also has roles at Standard Life Invest- ments, Social Investment Scotland and Big Society Capital on her CV.


Joanne Segars has worked in pensions and investments for more than 30 years. She was the first chair of LGPS Central in 2017, has chaired Legal & General’s independent governance committee and is a member of the pension fund governing body at CERN. Segars has also chaired the joint expert panel at USS and is a director of the Pensions Policy Institute. She has dedicated her career to solving inequality in pensions and is an ambassador for the CII’s Insuring Women’s Futures, and works with the Diversity Project.


Philip Smith DC director TPT Retirement Solutions


Philip Smith has more than three decades of pensions experience. He joined TPT from PwC where he served as head of DC. Prior to this, Smith held senior roles at Buck Consult- ants, Opus and Health Consulting.


November 2022 portfolio institutional roundtable: Defined contribution


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