Andrew Pennie

Managing Director

Andrew has worked in financial services for over 20 years and for a number of  household brands, including Santander, Ernst & Young, Lloyds and HSBC. He has worked in both the intermediated and direct markets and undertaken roles in Marketing, Sales, Project Delivery and Product Development.

With such a varied career, Andrew decided to specialise in commercial marketing in 2007 and was Marketing Director at Santander Private Banking prior to joining Intelligent Pensions in August 2010.

Andrew holds a BSc Honours Degree in Accountancy from Hull University, as well as various financial services qualifications.

Steve Patterson

Client Services Director

After studying engineering at Glasgow University Steve decided a career in financial services offered the best opportunity to apply his creative technical skills. Having established his own IFA business in 1984 Steve and his team had built up a wealth of experience in pensions and investment planning.

After developing specialist retirement analysis software he launched Intelligent Pensions in 1998 to provide flexible bespoke retirement solutions for high net worth customers. From an early stage a growing  proportion of the company's clients were being introduced by other IFAs reflecting the exceptional calibre of services and expertise on offer in this complex area of financial planning. 

Through its low cost SIPP facility linked to a range of leading institutional fund management houses the company now manages over 1,000 pension drawdown portfolios with a combined value of over £300m.

Douglas Kearney

Investment Director

Douglas is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has spent his career predominately in the investment and financial sectors. Prior to joining Intelligent Pensions, Douglas was the co-founder and Finance and Investment Director for an AIM listed Emerging Market Fund, which tripled its net asset value within three years. Douglas's other previous experience includes, managing the Investment Portfolio for Greig Asset Management, a founding Director of Royal Bank of Scotland's private equity business and periods with the Scottish Development Agency and Charterhouse Development Capital specialising in private equity.

Fiona Tait

Technical Director

Fiona is a specialist presenter and commentator on all areas of pension planning. She is qualified as a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society, and is a Vice-president of The Insurance Society of Edinburgh. Fiona has presented at adviser conferences for FT Adviser, Money Marketing and the Personal Finance Society, and is a regular contributor to the trade press and social media. She has also appeared on Sky News, the Today programme and Share radio.

Before joining Intelligent Pensions, Fiona spent time with Eagle Star, Scottish Equitable and most recently Royal London in a variety of pension roles.

John Moret

Non-Executive Chairman

John Moret, former Director of Sales and Marketing at Suffolk Life, joined the management team as Non-Executive Chairman in March 2012.

John has had a distinguished career in the pensions industry and during his 7 year career with Suffolk Life, John was part of the management team that negotiated the sale of Suffolk Life to Legal & General. Previously he had been CEO and Executive Chairman of Personal Pension Management Limited and part of the management team at Winterthur Life. He has his own business consultancy MoretoSIPPs and also chairs The Pensions Net-Work.

Stephen Bush

Kent, South London & South East

Email: stephenbush@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07825-152316

Stephen joined Intelligent Pensions in 2007 bringing with him extensive experience in Financial Services in both the IFA and Provider sectors. Stephen previously had worked for over 20 years as a successful broker account manager, latterly at Senior Key Account level with Scottish Life, working in the City on occupational and personal pensions. He then moved on to giving advice and gaining valuable experience as an IFA in the South East for some years before joining Intelligent Pensions.

Tom Bostock

South East England

Email: tombostock@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07485 332 488

Tom has worked in financial services since graduating from Swansea University with an upper second class degree in Economics in 2003. He has worked in a variety of advice based roles and has attained Chartered Financial Planner status through the CII.

Alison Tyne

London and South East

Email: alisontyne@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07485-334855

Alison has worked in Financial Services for over 25 years, where she has done a variety of roles from branch manager to mortgage and financial adviser. Alison has worked for most of the main Bancassurers including HSBC and Aviva. Just recently Alison took a short break from providing financial advice and worked as a pensions investigator for the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Alison has been providing holistic financial advice to clients for over 20 years and in recent years has specialised more on pension and retirement planning.

Alison holds the CII Diploma in Financial Planning.

Joe Sheridan

London & The Home Counties

Email: joesheridan@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07989-157455

Joe joined Intelligent Pensions in August 2016 bringing with him over 25 years’ experience of working in the Financial Services industry with a particular focus on Individual & Corporate Pensions business.

Joe has worked for four of the major UK Life Insurance offices including AXA, AEGON & Aviva, building and developing relationships with Independent Financial Advisors and holds the CII Diploma in Financial Planning.

Ben Sloggett

South West & South Wales

Email: bensloggett@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07964-899296

Ben has been working in Financial Services for over 15 years. Ben spent 8 years working for Hargreaves Lansdown and his experience includes retirement planning for private clients and members of company pension schemes.

Ben’s qualifications include a diploma in personal financial planning and a degree in economics.

Robyn Caffell

South West England

Email: robyncaffell@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07917-873957

Robyn has worked in the Financial Services industry since September 2000, where she has done a variety of roles ranging from customer services and complaints handling to sales. Robyn has previously worked for large household names such as Prudential and Zurich, and since 2011 has worked within the employee benefits arena where her skill set now includes providing regulated pension advice, technical support on all aspects of automatic enrolment, project management and delivering workplace presentations. Robyn holds the Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA).

Alex McConaghy

Scotland & Northern Ireland

Email: alexmcconaghy@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07824-611066

Alex who joined Intelligent Pensions in 2010 has extensive experience of the pensions sector having worked for James Hay for over 6 years in the roles for Implementation Manager and Business Development Manager in Scotland and the North of England. Prior to this Alex worked for Scottish Life and Scottish Widows. Alex’s exam successes include AFPC G60 and JO5.

Karen Lauder

Scotland & Northern Ireland

Email: karenlauder@ipifa.com

Mobile: 07815-553207

Tristan Edwards

North West

Tristan has worked in Financial Services since his first role with AXA in 2001, he has seen first hand the evolution of the industry as well as many challenging environments from the Tech bubble bursting in the early 2000s, through to the “credit crunch” in 2007, the Russian rouble crisis to the present day with the difficulties with the cost of the living crisis.

As a Chartered Financial Planner Tristan has been able to navigate his clients through these difficult times whilst providing confidence through his knowledge and experiences.

As a father of two Tristan enjoys his spare time supporting them to achieve their dreams, whether that be as a gymnast and rugby player for his daughter or a cricket and tennis player for his son. Tristan joins Intelligent Pensions after running his own advisory business for the last five years.             

Simon Wateridge

South East

Claire Wright

Pensions Service Manager

Claire has worked in the pensions industry for more than 18 years.  In this time, she has acquired a deep technical knowledge of pensions and developed advanced skills in pension administration and management. She is a member of the Personal Finance Society and holds a number of professional qualifications, including the CII’s Diploma in Financial Planning and the G60 pension qualification.  She has worked for both independent financial advisers and pension providers which gives her a broad range of experience, knowledge and skills from which to deliver comprehensive and effective pension advice to our clients.

Rhiannon Connelly

Client Services Manager

Michelle (Shelly) Smith

Compliance Manager

Sophie Tinney

Paraplanner

Claire Bradley

Finance Manager

Donald Matheson

Manager

Karen Traquair

Manager

Elaine Donald

Lisa Douglas

Debbie Grice

Jenna McInnes

Caitlin Mullin

Lewis Ross