Vidett grow team with three new appointments

Vidett, a UK leading professional trustee and pension governance firm, has appointed three new members to the team, to support its continued growth plans.

Amanda Ford joins as an assistant manager to support clients with their governance, pensions secretarial and project work. She joins from Aon’s investment team where she was a technical analyst working on different pension schemes of varying sizes, ranging from the small with 28 members to very large, with assets from c£5bn.

Prior to this she worked at AXA, initially in their quotations department, covering all life and defined contribution (DC) pension calculations, before moving on to the DC pensions administration team.

Lisa Sweeney also joins as an assistant manager to support Vidett’s trustee team with governance and ongoing scheme requirements. She joins from Mercer UK where she was a pension consultant providing support to client managers and scheme actuaries, including scheme secretarial services, drafting governance documents and member communications as well as acting as a point of contact for trustees and advisers.

She began her career DWP as an administrative officer, working on Pension Credit claims and assessments; later moving into pensions administration and spending 12 years working as a senior administrator for the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

Jacob Inerfield joins as a project manager in the Governance team, bringing with him significant experience in projects and operations across industries including charity, hospitality, local government and most recently, pensions. He joins from Capita where he was initially an operations manager in local government environmental health, trading standards and licensing, before working in pensions consulting.

A key highlight at Capita saw him project managing the restructure of 130+ small/medium pension administration schemes and working within their digital transformation project team to roll out a new online portal for members.

Commenting on the appointments, Wayne Phelan, Chief Executive at Vidett, said:

“We are delighted to welcome three new highly experienced team members. Lisa and Amanda bring significant pension expertise having worked in high profile pension roles on a wide range of schemes.

“Jacob is a skilled project manager who has implemented change and continuous improvement processes across all business operating functions. His pension consulting experience will be of particular value to our team. We wish all three every success in their new roles.”

Vidett is a privately owned business, independent from any other provider of services to corporate pension and employee benefit schemes. With an unrivalled knowledge bank to support client needs, Vidett currently looks after over 475 clients with total assets in excess of £142bn and over 2.5 million scheme members.