Speakers
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu CBE DL Co-founder, mallowstreet
Dawid is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Redington and mallowstreet with Robert Gardner. Dawid remains involved in mallowstreet as a Board Director.
Most recently Dawid co-founded The #10000BlackInterns programme with Jonathan Sorrell (President of Capstone Investment Advisers), Michael Barrington-Hibbert (founder of Barrington-Hibbert Associates), and Wol Kolade (Managing Partner of Livingbridge), the group which founded #100BlackInterns in August 2020.
Through the #100BlackInterns initiative, leading players in the investment management industry have come together to address the chronic underrepresentation of Black talent in that sector. Since its launch, the programme has garnered extraordinary support with 200 investment management companies offering internships in the Summer of 2021 to Black students in the United Kingdom as a way of attracting a more diverse range of talent to their industry.
Following the launch of #100BlackInterns, the #10000BlackInterns initiative has been designed to help transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the United Kingdom. The 10,000 Black Interns programme will offer paid work experience across a wide range of sectors, providing training and development opportunities and creating a sustainable cycle of mentorship and sponsorship for the Black community.
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Steve Hodder Partner, LCP
Steve helps large institutional investors deliver better returns. He is an experienced negotiator of DB pension scheme investment strategies, advising both corporate sponsors and scheme trustees. He has advised a number of large schemes to implement “productive run-on” strategies expected to deliver higher benefits for members and surplus refunds for sponsors.
Alongside his day job, Steve has been leading LCP’s proposals to reform how DB pension schemes are managed, working with government, regulators and industry bodies. He believes that the £1tn + of assets in DB schemes can be "unlocked" from excessively prudent investment strategies to drive significant benefits for scheme members, UK companies, and boost growth of the UK economy. His ideas have fed into the Government’s recent DB policy proposals, set out in the 2023 and 2024 Mansion House speeches, 2024 DWP consultation and the January 2025 Chancellor announcement re DB surplus release.
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Alan Baker Director, Law Debenture Pension Trustees
Alan is a Trustee Director at Law Debenture and provides professional trustee services for multiple pension schemes (DB and DC) with assets ranging from £300m to £30bn. He has a broad background in investment strategy, asset allocation and risk management, including fiduciary management and the development of cash flow matching strategies and hedging solutions. Alan has extensive experience of de-risking through bulk annuities and longevity swaps, both as a trustee and adviser, and has been involved in the development of a range of end-game strategies covering insurance as well as run-off / run-on approaches. His DB and DC pensions experience is backed by leadership and strategic advice roles in pensions, insurance and banking (including M&A and restructuring).
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Hiten Nandha Investment Consultant, The Pensions Regulator
Hiten is a Principal in the investment team at TPR having joined in June 2022. His role focuses on the economics of DB pension schemes, investment strategy, the LDI market, and the supervision of large DB schemes. Hiten has investment experience from strategy to implementation. He has worked for PwC, Capita, WTW and GAD. He is an actuary. Hiten graduated with economics degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Warwick.
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Guy Coughlan Clota Värde; J.P. Morgan JPMC UK Retirement PlanGuy is currently Chief Operating Officer at Clota Värde, a corporate finance advisory firm focused on impact investment. He is also a Non-executive Director of J.P. Morgan Pension Trustees which is the Trustee to the JPMC UK Retirement Plan. Guy’s career spans pensions, investment and risk advisory. He spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan where he was a managing director holding multiple senior roles, including global head of longevity solutions, global head of ALM advisory and co-head of pension advisory. Following J.P. Morgan, Guy was chief risk and analytics officer at Pacific Global Advisors, a US pension fiduciary manager. Most recently, he spent nearly eight years at Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), a UK pension plan with £90bn of assets as of 31 March 2022. At USS he held the positions of chief risk officer, valuation programme executive and senior strategic adviser, serving on the executive committees of both USS and its investment management subsidiary. Guy has a DPhil / PhD from Oxford University and an MBA from Henley Business School.
