Meet your committee

Introducing our valued members

The Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) comprises of a small committee who meet regularly to manage and maintain the daily running and events of the association on the behalf of its members.

Janice Turner

Co-Chair

Janice Turner is founding co-chair of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees. She helped to found the AMNT because she believed that the voices of ordinary member-nominated trustees were not being heard. For more than eight years she has been putting forward the views of trustees to the industry and the government.

Janice has been a member of the Department for Work and Pensions Trustees Panel and the Actuarial Users' Committee of the Financial Reporting Council, and was a guest speaker at Harvard Law School's international pensions and capital stewardship conference. She has been named by Pensions Insight as one of the top 50 most influential people in the pensions industry.

Janice believes very strongly in the right and necessity of pension scheme trustees to take seriously the longterm sustainability of their investments. But, faced with the difficulty so many pension schemes have in adopting and implementing environmental, social and governance policies in relation to the stewardship of their investments,  she devised a new approach to ESG, called Red Line Voting.  The campaign continues with government, regulators and the pensions industry to further the rights and ability of pension schemes to direct their own stewardship policy.

Janice has appeared before the Work and Pensions Select Committee to give evidence on behalf of AMNT. She is currently a member of the Financial Reporting Council's Investor Advisory Group.

Janice's pensions background is in the defined benefit sphere, and she is a member-nominated trustee of the BECTU Staff Retirement Scheme. She has achieved the PMI Level 3 Award in Pensions Trusteeship. Janice is employed at BECTU, the film and broadcasting union, as the Editor of the union's journal Stage Screen & Radio magazine and she is also the union's award-winning diversity officer.

Maggie Roger

Maggie Rodger

Co-Chair

Maggie joined AMNT in 2016 and has been an MNT of The Church of England Pensions Board for 5 years and currently chairs their Audit and Risk Committee. CEPB is a fund for those connected to the Church of England with £3bn AUM,  41000 members and almost 700 employers. It encompasses a number of different schemes including DB, which is open to accrual and new members, plus a number of Hybrid schemes and a small DC scheme for different groups of members. Just to be a little different it is a Charity which also manages retirement housing for Clergy and others serving the Church.. CEPB, together with other central Church investment funds, takes ethical and ESG investing very seriously and has an in- house team managing their engagement activities. They were a founder signatory to Net Zero and have committed to using the Net Zero Investment framework.
She was previously an MNT for the Pensions Trust (TPT) for 5 years.
Before retirement Maggie worked for the Central Church bodies in a variety of roles and then became Finance Director of a Hospice in Harrow.

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Robin Bell

Committee member

Robin was elected to the AMNT committee in 2012 He is a member nominated trustee of the Allied Irish Banks UK DB pension scheme and previously was a trustee of the Defined Contribution scheme. Robin works in retail banking and is a member of the national executive of IBOA the finance union. In 2010 Robin was appointed as a member of the Industrial Court in Northern Ireland which has statutory powers in trade union recognition disputes and information requirements for collective bargaining. Robin is married to Jill and they have two children Thomas and Claire. Outside of work and pensions Robin is a keen water-skier and enjoys recreational cycling.

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Andrea Myers

Committee member

Andrea has been a MNT of the Marks and Spencer Pension scheme for 7 years. She attended the first meeting of the AMNT at the recommendation of the M&S pension team and quickly became involved in the committee. Her area of responsibility on the committee is training. Andrea's day job is HR manager and she runs run a telephone advice service for Line managers. She has worked for Marks and Spencer for 33 years.

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Stephen Fallowell

Committee member

Stephen Fallowell worked in Nat West Retail Banking for 42 years, retiring in
2013. He was member Nominated Trustee for the Royal Bank of Scotland
Fund until 2018 when his term of office ended. He was elected to the main
committee of the AMNT in 2017. He was an active lay official for the Banking
Union and still undertakes individual representations. He has written for Pension Age Magazine in a personal capacity and now submits a regular column for the AMNT. He also writes regularly for Pension Expert.
Stephen is a playwright with regular broadcasts on Radio stations in Sussex.
Stephen lives in West Sussex with his wife Lynne. They have two adult
daughters.

James Boyd

James Boyd

Committee member

James has been a Member Nominated Trustee for a total of 14 years. He has been an elected retired MND 4 years and as such he has been able to devote more time on Pension matters. Current Legislation requires trustees to have knowledge and understanding and to that end he has completed the Pension Regulator’s (TPR) training package and obtained the Certificate of Competence. James has also successfully completed the Pension Management Institute (PMI) examination for the Award in Pension Trusteeship and regularly attends other Pension training events.   He has been a member of the AMNT for 8 years and has been part of the AMNT committee team that continues to help and guide Member Nominated Trustees.  He remains committed to protecting the interests of all members and is prepared to continue to put in the necessary time, effort and training to ensure that the AMNT remains a primary focus in the Pension World.

John Gaunt

Committee member

John is a committee member of the AMNT (Association of Member Nominated Trustees) and formerly experienced trustee of a large ($3bn) UK occupational pension scheme. He is a retired IT manager who has experience in successfully managing local, regional and global projects, in varied functional areas, including Logistics, Manufacturing, Research and Development, Quality and Finance. In addition to IT project management John has several years experience managing IT support teams in UK, Eire, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Russia, where he lived for a short period. He combines strong people management and interpersonal skills with a practical approach.

John Paradise

Committee member

John is an MNT for St Andrews Healthcare, one of the UK’s oldest charitable providers for the mentally ill although he now works for PJ Care as their Head of Learning and Development. Initially elected as Serving Member Representative, he was then nominated by the Employer as a Trustee (ENT), before being elected directly by members as an MNT. He joined AMNT soon after its inception and was elected to the National Committee in Nov 2011.

An active national committee member, John is jointly responsible for Training and Communications. John also believes that MNT’s should be recognised for the complexity of their role, that tPR Toolkit training should be mandatory in the first six months, with time off paid by sponsors, and to be paid as Trustees but linked closely to the level of TKU they can evidence. John has represented AMNT at events in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Barcelona and Berlin and occasionally writes for the pension industry press.

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Sophie Dapin

Committee member

Sophie joined the AMNT committee in 2022. She has been a Member Nominated Trustee Director of the Schroders Retirement Benefit Scheme for four years. She was elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2021. She is particularly involved in initiatives on member engagement and believes it is crucial for all members of pension schemes to engage with their pensions, not just those approaching retirement. She is a member of the Scheme’s member communications subcommittee and has been involved in a number of initiatives to encourage wider involvement and interest. She is a qualified Actuary and works in Fiduciary Management, advising pension scheme trustees on their investment strategies.  Before joining Schroders, Sophie worked in both the actuarial and investment practices of Lane Clark and Peacock.

Bridget Hiluta

Membership and General Administation

Bridget joined the AMNT as administrator for Red Line Voting in September 2015. Initially supporting the development and launch of the project, and then managing the day to day administration of the project. Following the appointment of Leanne Clements as campaign manager for Red Line Voting Bridget moved into a more general role, supporting the membership and events aspects of the Association's work.

Her background is having worked for Marks and Spencer for 38 years primarily as an HR Manager and also as a Training & Commercial Manager.

Christopher MATTHEWS-MAXWELL, MBE, TD

Committee Member

He is a Member-Nominated Trustee of a large UK Pension Scheme and a Member of the Investment Sub-Committee of that Scheme.  Prior to his retirement he was a Management-Nominated Trustee and was also Secretary to the Trustees.  For many years Christopher was an Adviser with the Pensions Advisory Service and now carries out a similar role with the Office of The Pensions Ombudsman. Christopher is a Chartered Secretary with wide business experience and interests, particularly in the fields of investment and property management/development.  He is actively involved in the management of a large, diversified, family-owned property portfolio.  In addition, he has and continues to hold a number of Senior Public Appointments, mainly related to Health, Social Care, Housing and Judicial matters. Also active in the Charitable and Voluntary Sectors, Christopher is Chairman of a National Medical Charity and is Vice Chairman of a major National Charity which focusses on social exclusion and the provision of support for those suffering from the effects of substance misuse and abuse.  Additionally, he is Chairman of a Social Enterprise Company.  In all of these activities he has an involvement in and ongoing over-sight in regard to pensions and pensions-related issues. Living in rural Northumberland, Christopher has an active interest in country life and country pursuits, and is a member of the Country Land and Business Owners Association (CLA) and the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), of which he is a former County Branch Chairman.

Kevin McGonnigle

Kevin McGonnigle

Committee Member

Kevin joined the Committee in 2021.  Kevin has been an MNT of the Defined Benefit Samsung Pension Scheme since 2007 and was elected as Chair in 2018. In late 2020 after being requested to join, he became a committee member of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT). In 2021, Kevin became a member of the Professional Pensions advisory board. Amongst the main tasks he has been involved in, is the closure to new members and future accrual consultations along with a scheme merger in his time as a Trustee. He has worked as an I.T Consultant for numerous global corporations across the globe in a career spanning almost four decades to date. 

Terry Roberts

Terry Roberts

Committee member

Terry was elected to the Committee in 2021. Terry is qualified as a Graduate Manager & Chartered Company Secretary. He has operated in Company Secretary & Compliance roles across a range of businesses including at Northern Rock; then at Leeds (& Holbeck) Building Society; and then in Legal Services. In all these positions he was involved in legislative compliance & reporting, strategic planning & project management, company secretarial practice, budget creation & monitoring, planning & recording meetings, and general administration using a variety of computer based systems. He has also managed the company secretary governance procedures for Directors & Trustees and as a Pension Scheme Secretary he can also offer the experience from a number of governance roles including in Risk Management and Audit; Pension Scheme Trusteeship at the Chartered Management Institute & now as a MNT Director at the NRAM Pension Scheme; Governance monitoring and compliance; and Investment Management.

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