Sally Bridgeland

Sally Bridgeland is an actuary with pensions and investment experience as an adviser, trustee, and non-executive director. Alongside Avida, where Sally acts as a senior adviser, she is a non-executive director at insurer Royal London, Impax Asset Management and Local Pensions Partnership Limited, where she chairs its FCA regulated investment company. Until recently, Sally was a pension trustee for both Nest Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension funds, having previously been Chief Executive Office of the BP Pension Scheme 2007-14. She also spent 20 years with Aon as a consultant and in research and innovation.

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Location: London
Tel: +44 203 755 3419

Sally’s War Story

In 2007, I was recruited to take over the role of CEO of the BP Pension Fund. My predecessor had, for a variety of reasons, ceased to have functioning relationships with the line managers of both the in-house teams responsible for delivering the investment management and administration of the pension fund. As CEO and the successor, I had to make the relationships work to make progress on our normal day to day business as well as the bigger strategic agenda.

First, I recognised the importance of technical skills and language when dealing with investment and pension professionals. I established my credentials by talking about some technical issues. With the HR/Administration Head, I then suggested some “design principles” for our negotiations on factors. This avoided arguments about actuarial niceties and the numbers and improved communication. On the investment front, I used my experience and network to help the investment team make connections with external advisers of their own, with their help, a regular reporting cycle and reports on investments were quickly established. Though the experience was frustrating, it taught me a lot about politics, personalities and the need for patience.

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Sally Bridgeland
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Sally Bridgeland is an actuary with pensions and investment experience as an adviser, trustee and non executive director. 

Sally is a non-executive director at insurer Royal London, at Impax Asset Management and Local Pensions Partnership Limited, where she chairs its FCA regulated investment company.

Until recently Sally was a pension trustee for both NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension funds, having previously been Chief Executive Officer of the BP Pension Scheme 2007-14. She spent 20 years with Aon as a consultant and in research and innovation.

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Simone Lavelle
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Simone Lavelle has a strong pensions industry background having worked with some of its leading players in her career. Her early career spanned risk management and control, which provided a strong technical and control foundation for her work in the pensions industry.

She joined Avida in 2014 where she is involved in projects for organisational change and client retention programmes. Prior to Avida she was Director at Law Debenture in the UK, where she co-managed the Independent Trustees Team as well as acting as an Independent Trustee. Prior to that she was COO/CFO at Cardano UK, responsible for shaping the financial, operational and support functions as well as risk governance. Simone started her career at ING, progressing to Rabobank International where she was Executive Director and Head of Risk Control.

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