PARTICIPANTS


Martin Collins Trustee director 20-20 Trustees


Dan Aylott European head of private equity research Cambridge Associates


Dan Aylott leads Cambridge Associates’ Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) private equity and venture capital research team. He also advises pension funds, private wealth clients and foundations on managing global private investment portfolios. Aylott has more than two decades of private investment experience. This has included being respon- sible for private equity at Kedge Capital and managing the BP Pension Fund’s global private equity assets. He has also been part of the investment team at PineBridge and Aviva Investors, where he was responsible for European private equity.


Martin Collins has worked in pensions for 30 years. He joined Lloyds Banking Group as a treasury director during the financial crisis, where he saved the bank more than £20bn by implementing a de-risked investment strategy and collateral-led funding plan. Collins also led the in-house pensions investment team and served on the investment sub-committee. He has also led a derivative structuring team at Santander, designing one of the first lon- gevity hedging contracts.


Joanne Job Managing director, head of investment consulting MJ Hudson


Joanne Job is responsible for strategy reviews, manager selection, investment research and portfolio analytics as well as investment and operational due diligence of private market funds. Prior to joining MJ Hudson, she spent five years in the alterna- tive investments group at Moody’s Investors and has also worked for GlobeOp Financial Services, ABN Amro Asia Securities and Cirne International.


Christian Dobson Portfolio manager, alternatives Border to Coast Pensions Partnership


Christian Dobson manages Border to Coast’s private equity programme. He joined the pool in 2020 from the investment team of the £6.5bn Nationwide Pension Fund. Dobson has experience of a range of asset classes, including fixed income, equities, real estate and alternatives.


Roger Mattingly Trustee director Ross Trustees


Roger Mattingly chairs several trustee boards and investment sub-committees. A former president of the Society of Pension Profes- sionals, Mattingly has been a member of various industry groups, including the Pen- sions Regulator’s Stakeholder Advisory Panel and chair of the Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association’s Multi-Employer Defined Benefit Committee.


Anish Butani Senior director, private markets bfinance


Anish Butani leads bfinance’s infrastructure coverage, where he has advised on more than $8bn (£6bn) worth of allocations since 2017. Prior to joining the consultancy, he gained more than 10 years of experience as a corporate financier, advising on mergers and acquisitions, financings and valuing infra- structure assets primarily at KPMG. Butani has also worked at infrastructure developer John Laing, where he was responsible for leading the divestment processes of its pro- ject portfolio.


Mark Humphreys


Head of EMEA client solutions Invesco Investment Solutions


Mark Humphreys is responsible for the development of Invesco’s multi-asset offering for its clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This includes managing stra- tegic asset allocations as well as developing advisory service lines and outcome-based products. He is a member of Invesco’s invest- ment committee. Having started his invest- ment career at Aon, Humphreys became an investment consultant at Willis Towers Watson before joining Schroders as outsourced chief investment officer.


Tom Sumpster


Head of private markets Phoenix Group


Tom Sumpster brought more than 20 years of structured finance experience to Phoenix when he joined in March last year. His previ- ous role was head of infrastructure at Legal & General Investment Management where he worked across equity and debt. A chartered accountant by trade, Sumpster’s previous roles include focusing on infrastructure debt, structuring and underwriting at Royal Bank of Canada. He has also held related positions at BayernLB, Dexia, Santander and PwC.


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