Tribunal Panel

Members
Ian Abrams		Ian Abrams has more than 30 years of Investment Banking experience. Ian is currently a non-executive director of: The Pension Protection Fund; Mizuho International Plc and Theta Enhanced Asset Management. He is a member of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and the Securities Institute and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Paul Acres QPM		Paul Acres was Chief Constable of Hertfordshire from 2000 to 2004 and previously Deputy Chief Constable of Merseyside. Experienced in investigation and the development of professional standards he now holds several public appointments.
Alan Barber FCIB		Alan Barber is retired after a 40 year career in Banking, holding senior positions with Midland (now HSBC) Bank, both in UK and overseas, and Deutsche Bank in London. He now uses his lending and management experience in a variety of consultancy and non-executive roles.
George Bardwell CBE, FCIPD		George Bardwell is a former senior civil servant, is a Director of Public Administration International, an international development management consultancy firm and a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel.
Ian Beesley MA, FRSS, FRSA		Ian Beesley is a retired PricewaterhouseCoopers ('PwC') management consulting partner. Former HR Leader for PwC's Global Business Process Outsourcing business. 1964-1986 civil servant in the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and the UK Prime Minister's Office where he led the Efficiency Unit.
David Blunt QC		David Blunt is a practising barrister and a Recorder, and he sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court and of the Technology and Construction Court.
Steven Boughton		Stephen Boughton retired from Linklaters, a city and international law firms in December 2003. He was a partner for nearly 18 years working on corporate finance transactions in many locations including London, New York and Hong Kong. Since his retirement he has become involved in a number of activities in the voluntary sector in Kent and sits as a Justice of the Peace on the North Kent Bench at Chatham.
Christopher Bright		Christopher Bright is the principal of Competition Consulting. He specialises in competition and regulation. He is also a member of the Competition Commission, a non-executive director of the Jersey Competition Regulation Authority and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative law, University of Oxford.
Simon Carne		Simon Carne has had an extensive involvement with the UK’s regulatory environment since the mid-1990s, including utilities, financial services and professions. In the 1980s, he set up Ernst & Young’s forensic accounting service, at which time he was a founding Council member of the Academy of Experts. He later served as a member of the Institute of Actuaries’ Disciplinary Tribunal and subsequently its Council (2001-06). He became an accredited mediator in 2009.
Richard Collins MA, FCA		Richard Collins is a Member at Kinetic Partners and has had some 20 years' experience of financial services compliance at senior level in premier UK, US and European financial institutions, covering retail, investment banking, investment management and international banking. Most recently he was Group Compliance Director at Lloyds TSB for four and a half years. He is a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies and a Member of the Guild of International Bankers.
Richard de Lacy QC		Richard de Lacy has practised at the Bar since 1976. He has specialist knowledge of insolvency, claims relating to accountancy and accountants, company law, property law, professional indemnity claims in these fields and in tax advice. He is also a practising arbitrator and an accredited mediator.
Gerry Devenney		Gerry has worked in actuarial and pensions consultancy for over 25 years. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1991. Gerry is the Principal who heads up Punter Southall’s Edinburgh office and is responsible for the firm's business development in Scotland and the North of England. Throughout his career Gerry has been involved in all aspects of pensions consultancy and actuarial work. He is a Scheme Actuary and advises both trustees and companies, and is responsible for the provision of strategic investment advice. He previously sat on the Council of The Faculty of Actuaries, has served as an adviser for The Pensions Advisory Service and has been an examiner for the Faculty of Actuaries' professional examinations. In 1999, he co-authored a paper commissioned by the Actuarial Profession; the concept of which has since evolved to become the UK's Pension Protection Fund. Gerry graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1986, with an Honours degree in Mathematics.
D. Anthony Evans QC		Anthony Evans was called to the Bar, Grays Inn in 1965, called to the Queens Counsel in 1983, Recorder of the Crown Court 1980 - 2003. He is a DTI Inspector and was Chairman of JDS Tribunals.
Ian A. Farr JP FFA		Ian Farr was Chairman of the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) from 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2008. During his time as Chairman, he led the ACA's initiative for changes in the law to facilitate a radical extension to the possibilities for the design of occupational pension schemes in which risks can be shared between private sector employers and scheme members. Since then he has maintained his interest and continues to write and to speak on this subject. In 2007/08, he was Chairman of the Occupational Pensions Joint Working Group. He joined R Watson & Sons in 1987, becoming a partner in 1988. That firm became Watson Wyatt, from which he retired on 1 July 2008. Previously he had held senior executive positions at The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society and Friends Provident Life Office. He qualified as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in 1971 at the age of 23, having previously been an Associate. He has advised a wide range of companies and trustee bodies on pension matters and was scheme actuary to several very large UK private sector occupational schemes and to others of varying sizes. He sits on tribunals for the disciplinary scheme of the Actuarial Profession and is a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. He is a Justice of the Peace and sits on the South West Surrey Bench in Guildford.
Mike Hammer		Mike Hammer is a consulting actuary advising in relation to pension schemes and other employee benefits, working at Mercer Ltd. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1992. He is an independent examiner for university degrees in actuarial science, and used to be an investigating actuary for the actuarial profession’s disciplinary scheme.
Arthur Harverd FCA		Arthur Harverd is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Arbitrator. He is the Chairman of the London Court of International Arbitration, a past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Board of The International Dispute Resolution Centre, London. He has twice acted as a DTI Inspector.
George Helsby		George Helsby is the former Chairman / Non-Executive Director of Public Corporations worldwide; Chairman of the Mental Health Appeals Panel and the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority Appeals Panel; a Lay Member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, Post-graduate Medical Education and Training Board Appeals Panel, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals' Clinical Ethics Group. He is also an Accredited Mediator and writer.
Richard Jones QC		Richard Jones is a practising barrister with a wide ranging practice. He has a particular interest in regulatory and disciplinary issues in a number of fields. He sits as a Recorder in the Crown Court and County Court.
Richard Kennett BSc, FCA, MCIArb		Richard Kennett is a Chartered Accountant, Arbitrator and Mediator. He retired from public practice in 2009 and currently serves as a non-executive on a number of public sector and private boards and committees. He is also a member of several dispute resolution panels.
Eugene McGivern CB		Eugene McGivern was on the Civil Service Appeal Board 1998 - 2004. He was a civil servant with the Inland Revenue until 1998, including Director of Personal and Business Tax Divisions; Appeals and Grievance Officer; Assistant Director in Human Relations Division.
Anne Marie Millar FCMA, CPFA, FIMGT, BA (Econ)		Anne Marie Millar has over 15 years experience as a Finance Director in both the private and public sectors (Transport and Health). She has been in her current role as a Deputy Director of Finance for the Department of Health since September 2003. She is a CIMA and CIPFA member.
Geoffrey Mitchell FCA		Geoffrey Mitchell has preparer experience at a top FTSE 100 company, including the introduction of IFRS in 2005; a standard setter and academic. He is currently a company director.
Sir Peter North CBE, QC		Sir Peter North is Chairman of ICSTIS (the premium rate regulator) and of the Oxford University Press Finance Committee, as well as being a member of the Senior Salaries Review Body; and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Principal of Jesus College Oxford, a Law Commissioner and Chairman of the ACCA Disciplinary Appeal Committee.
Patrick O'Keefe		Patrick O’Keeffe is a former partner of Deloitte LLP. During his active career he specialised in matters relating to the accounting, taxation and valuation of life assurance companies both in the UK and in Europe, particularly Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux countries. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries for whom he served on the Council for eleven years and is a former Treasurer. Now retired, he is still active as a Non-Executive Director of Teachers Provident Society and is a member of the Audit Committee and Court of the University of Bristol. He was recently appointed Almoner of the Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust. He has experience as a member of the disciplinary panels of the Institute of Actuaries and CIPFA.
Jeremy Orme		Jeremy Orme is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He joined Robson Rhodes from Oxford and over 20 years progressed from articled clerk to managing partner. Along the way he spent time in Australia (including in an appointment in industry) and, later, time on secondment in Whitehall at the Department of Transport. In 1987 he became a financial services regulator, joining the new Securities and Investments Board. He retired from the successor Financial Services Authority at the end of 2001, with involvement subsequently in various ‘not-for-profit’ roles. He has served as non-executive deputy chairman at the Audit Commission and at the National Bus Company.
Keith Palmer FSI		Keith Palmer is a consultant in financial services compliance and regulation. Until his retirement from full-time employment in 2002 he was a solicitor with an MBA who had reached the level of managing director and global head of compliance at two European investment banks. He is a lay member of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal, a member of the Essex South and North Valuation Tribunals and a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute.
Michael Pickard		Michael Pickard FIA spent the whole of his full-time career with Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, where his appointments included appointed actuary, chief executive and chairman. During his Royal London career he had been chairman of the Life Insurance Council and a deputy chairman of the Association of British Insurers, a vice-president of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a director of the Personal Investment Authority. From 1999-2010 he was the independent chairman of the Mirror Group Pensions' trust company board and from 2001-06 a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Ian Plaistowe FCA		Ian Plaistowe was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1992-1993, served as Chairman of the Auditing Practices Board from 1994 to 2002 and was a member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in 2002-2004. He retired from public practice in 2002 and currently serves on the Boards of a number of educational and charitable bodies.
Robert Rhodes QC		Robert Rhodes was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1989, and has been a Crown Court Recorder since 1987. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the IMRO Membership Appeal Tribunal, and was formerly a member of the Appeal Committee of the ICAEW. He practices, inter alia, in fraud, money laundering, regulatory matters and financial services. He has published many articles, lectured all over the world, and broadcast on both television and radio.
George Staple CB, QC		George Staple was a partner in Clifford Chance and one of its predecessor firms from 1967 until 1991 when he was appointed Director of the Serious Fraud Office. He is now a consultant to Clifford Chance and Chairman of the Review Board for Government Contracts.
Bruce Warman		Bruce Warman has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol and an MBA from the London Business School. After a long career in the motor industry during which time he qualified as an accountant, he retired as Director of Personnel of Vauxhall Motors in 2003. He now works as a senior executive coach, a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the School Teachers' Review Body and Vice Chairman of the Security Industry Authority where he is also Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a Fellow of the RSA.
Christopher Whittington MA, FCA		Christopher Whittington qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Cooper Brothers & Co in 1964. Following a period with Unilever Group he joined Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd in 1968. After some years as Head of the International Division he became Chairman of the Bank in 1988 as well as Deputy Chairman of the Group. He took early retirement in 1989 and became a Non-Executive Director of several UK listed companies. He returned to Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group in 1996 to become Chairman of the UK Audit Committee until November 2004. He is currently Chairman of the Deutsche Bank UK Pension Fund and also Deputy Chairman of a group of hedge funds.
Ann Wilks CBE		Ann Wilks was Secretary (Chief Executive) to the Financial Reporting Council and Secretary to the Financial Reporting Review Panel from 1998 to 2004. Her earlier career was spent in Government, mainly at the Department of Trade and Industry.