Key Staff
Each Director has significant experience in the pensions industry and skills in all of the areas relevant to effectively managing a pension scheme. In addition, our strong support structure enables a range of our staff to represent ITS at different levels, each having relevant professional qualifications and industry experience. Ideas are regularly shared between the directors and other staff within the organisation benefiting both us and the schemes we represent.
Chris Martin, Managing Director
Chris has been a director of ITS since its formation in 1992 and was appointed as Managing Director in 1997.
Chris acts as lead Director to a number of ITS’s larger ongoing trustee appointments, specialising in those where the sponsoring employer has entered an insolvency event. Chris is regular contributor to the pensions press on a range of topics such as the scheme funding issues for employers, and the role of professional advisers and trustees in a changing regulatory environment. Chris is frequently invited to speak at Pension conferences often in conjunction with the Pensions Regulator and with other leading pension professionals.
Email Chris at Chris_P_Martin@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4883.
Hetal Kotecha, Director
Hetal has been with ITS for 10 years and was appointed as a director of ITS in April 2005.
Hetal joined Abbey National Benefit Consultants (then owner of ITS) in 1998 as a Graduate Trainee giving him experience across the broad range of services within the pensions industry. He then moved into the specialist field of independent trusteeship in 1999.
Hetal specialises in insolvency related appointments as well as special situations appointments. He is also an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute.
Email Hetal at Hetal_Kotecha@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4794.
Carol Perry, Director
Carol was appointed as a director of ITS in July 2006 and brings over thirty years' industry experience, including her previous role as Head of Pensions at the House of Commons.
Carol started her career as a student actuary with Legal and General, moving through consultancy with Mercers, a pensions management role with a large multinational group, Pensions Director of Duncan Lawrie Pension Consultants Ltd and Moorgate House plc, before moving to the House of Commons as Head of Pensions.
Carol is a frequent speaker at pensions conferences and on the education circuit for accountants and lawyers. A Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, Carol has been involved in the education service of the Institute as tutor, author and examiner as well as serving as a member of the Board of Examiners for a number of years. She has also been a tPAS member and adviser since 1986.
Email Carol at Carol_Perry@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4890.
Peter Askins, Director
Peter was appointed as a director of ITS in March 2008 and brings a unique perspective to the role of independent trustee. He is well known in the industry from his time as a pensions' policy maker in the Department for Work and Pensions and has a deep understanding of successive governments' policy on both State and private pension provision.
Peter led the government consultation on the Pensions Green Paper in 2002 and was a key figure in shaping the content of the Pensions Act 2004. He worked closely with the HMRC team to deliver the A Day changes of 2006. Before taking early retirement from the civil service he was head of policy on defined benefit scheme administration and trustee issues.
Email Peter at Peter_Askins@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4696.
Martin Miles, Director
Martin was appointed as a Director of ITS in May 2009, and brings a wealth of experience gained from over 30 years in the pensions industry, the last 12 of which have been as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to PwC he spent many years as a Director at Buck Consultants followed by 6 years at Hewitt.
Martin is a qualified actuary, with wide experience of the issues facing pension schemes and their sponsors. In addition to being Scheme Actuary to many pension schemes, he has also advised UK and overseas employers and regulators on a variety of matters including funding negotiations and corporate restructuring. He was also chairman of an arts charity's pension scheme for six years.
He is a well known industry figure having spoken and written on a range of pensions matters. Other professional activities have included serving on a number of advisory committees and as a tPAS director and adviser.
Email Martin at martin_miles@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4301.
Nita Tinn, Director
Nita is a solicitor by profession, and was appointed as a Director of Independent Trustee Services Limited in February 2010.
Nita started her career at the law firm of Farrer & Co where she took her articles then moved to the legal department of the Prudential. She returned to private practice with Nabarro Nathanson before taking a career break to bring up children and set up a business in Norway. She joined Anglian Water Services on her return where she was appointed Head of Legal and Company Secretary.
In 2002, Nita became chair of trustees for the Anglian Water Group Pension Scheme, and since 2005 she has acted as an independent trustee on a number of pension schemes ranging in size from £45 million assets to over £800 million with both defined benefit and defined contribution sections. She is a CEDR accredited mediator.
Email Nita at Nita_Tinn@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7466 6864.
Richard Boniface, Operations Director
Richard was appointed as Operations Director of Independent ITS in July 2007 and looks after people development, governance and operational procedures, essential to support career trustee professionals.
Richard has worked in the financial services industry for over twenty-five years. A banker by profession, Richard started his career with NatWest handling corporate lending and service management. At Legal and General, he headed up the Corporate Pensions operation and before joining ITS, was Customer Director for L&G’s Life and Pensions UK Operations. As Managing Director of Paymaster, Richard was responsible for the administration of some of the largest public and private sector pensions schemes in the UK including pensions payroll and annuity payments.
Richard has been a regular speaker on customer service management matters and has worked on a number of working parties on best practice and service benchmarking covering many aspects of in-house and out-sourced administration.
Email Richard at Richard_Boniface@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4297.
Terry Monk, Business Development Executive
Terry has recently retired from his board position and now provides support to the business to assist in its growth and development.
Terry has over 40 years experience in the pensions industry having worked for Commercial Union (17 years), UK Provident (a specialist Life and Pensions company), as London Area Manager (9 years) and until 1999 Managing Director of Bradstock Financial Services and Bradstock Trustee Services Limited.
Terry has a unique insight into the impact on benefits of the winding up of occupational schemes and the significant impact on members as well as the conflict that will inevitably exist between trustees and employers and therefore places a very high value on the governance issues surrounding occupational pension schemes. One of Terry's key retirement roles is as a member of the Financial Assistance Scheme advisory panel to ensure delivery of the improved Financial Assistance Scheme package announced in December 2007.
Email Terry at Terry_Monk@itslimited.org.uk or call on 020 7528 4889.
