About Us / Advisory Board

Pat Butler

Pat Butler is a senior Partner of McKinsey and Company Inc., based in London. He specialises in financial services and leads McKinsey's European Retail Banking practice, having previously led the UK financial services practice. He has served banking and insurance clients in the UK, US, Middle East, South Africa, Australia and several European countries, as well as clients in a range of other industries. Born in 1960, Pat was educated at University College, Dublin and has been a Partner of McKinsey since 1993. He is married with children and enjoys climbing, skiing and most winter sports.

David Carrington

David is an independent consultant specialising in the funding and governance of charities and social enterprises. His clients have included the UK Treasury, the first venture philanthropy 'pooled' fund in the UK, the Big Lottery Fund, Arts & Business, the European Foundation Centre and many endowed and corporate foundations in the UK. David also works as a 'mentor/adviser' for senior staff in several charities. He has been Chief Executive of three foundations including the Baring Foundation (1992-8). He is a Governor of London South Bank University, Chair of Allavida (the publishers of the journal Alliance) and of Engage (the association of people working in gallery education), the National Foundation for Youth Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He is also a member of the Social Investment Task Force and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets. He chairs the editorial group of the Philanthropy UK e-newsletter.

Howard Davies

Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to his current appointment, he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the UK's single financial regulator since 1998. Howard had previously served for two years as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England after three years as Director General of the CBI. From 1987 to 1992 he was controller of the Audit Commission, following five years at McKinsey & Company. During 1985-1986, he was seconded to the Treasury as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before that he worked at the Treasury and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including two years as Private Secretary to the British Ambassador in Paris. Since 2002, he has been a trustee of the Tate. He is a member of the governing body, Royal Academy of Music, Patron of Working Families; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. In 2004 he joined the board of Morgan Stanley as non-executive director. Howard also featured as 'A man of our times' in Nicholas Henderson's Old Friends and Modern Instances.

Jeannie Drake

Jeannie Drake is the Deputy General Secretary specialising in IT & Telecommunications for the Communication Workers Union. She is a Commissioner of the Equal Opportunities Commission, a member of the Pension Protection Fund Board and of the TUC General Council, a trustee of both the O2 and Alliance and Leicester Pension Funds, and an Employment Appeal Tribunal member. She is also a member of the Labour Party National Policy Forum. On the European front, Jeannie is a member of the Telecomm Committee of the Union Network International, and a member of the EU Social Dialogue Committee for the Telecomms sector.

Laurie Edmans CBE

Laurie Edmans, has been active in pensions matters for more than 40 years. He is now pursuing a 'portfolio career' having stepped down from a full time role at AEGON UK at the end of June 2006, until which time he was also Chairman of the ABI Pensions and Savings Committee and of the Joint Working Group on Occupational Pensions. Laurie is a Board member of The Pensions Regulator and has been much involved with the FSA's Financial Capability work, currently sitting on their Generic Advice Working Group. He has just become the Chairman of 'SHIP' - the Safe Home Income Plans group, which represents 90% of the equity release sector in the UK, and Treasurer of the National Family and Parenting Institute. He is also on the special advisory board of the Higham Group and a trustee of two occupational pension schemes. A fellow of the PMI and the CII, he was awarded the CBE for services to pensions reform in the 2006 new year's honours list.

Kate Green

Kate Green has been Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, a national charity working for the eradication of child and family poverty in the UK, since July 2004. From July 2000, she was Director of One Parent Families, having previously worked for the Home Office and before that for Barclays Bank. Kate is a member of the London Child Poverty Commission, and the National Employment Panel which advises ministers on labour market policy. She is also Treasurer of the National Family and Parenting Institute, a trustee of End Child Poverty and a trustee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She has been a magistrate in the City of London since 1993. Kate received an OBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours list.

Brian Pomeroy

Brian Pomeroy was formerly Senior Partner of Deloitte Consulting. He now holds a number of public, voluntary and private sector appointments and is Chair of the Treasury's Financial Inclusion Taskforce. He is a member of the National Lottery Commission (having been its Chair in 1999/2000 and 2002/3) and of the Audit Commission, a non-executive director of the Pensions Protections Investments Accreditation Board and a board member of the Social Market Foundation. Brian is also a trustee of Money Advice Trust, which works to provide advice for people in debt; Chair of Raleigh International, the youth development charity; and a trustee of Children's Express, the newsroom run by young people. Past appointments include serving as Chair of Centrepoint and of Homeless Link, the umbrella body representing the homelessness sector. He was also a member of the Government's Disability Rights Task Force.