Manpreet Sohal

Chief People Officer

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Manpreet is our Chief People Officer and leads our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. She acts as a professional trustee for schemes as well as providing project management and governance-related services.

Manpreet has a key eye for detail. Her interest and skill set drive her to focus on maintaining high standards of scheme governance and operational excellence. Her project management skills ensure she runs a ‘tight ship’, which in turn ensures the projects that she oversees are managed successfully and efficiently. She has chaired audit and governance sub committees and adopts a collaborative way of working with co-trustees, employers, advisers, regulatory authorities and colleagues.

Manpreet heads our internal working group focused on driving better results through diversity on the boards where we are appointed. She is Chair of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees (APPT) Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee through which she is able to positively influence change in the industry. She has passed the Advanced Diploma in Pensions Management (APMI) and is a member of the Pensions Management Institute.

Manpreet is fully accredited as a professional trustee by the APPT.

  • Adviser reviews
  • Buy-outs
  • Closure to future accrual projects
  • Covenant reviews
  • Drafting & reviewing regulatory documents
  • Liability management exercises, e.g. PIEs, WULS, trivial lump sum exercises
  • Member communications
  • Mentoring lay trustees
  • Overseas parent company
  • Scheme governance
  • Schemes in PPF assessment
  • Scheme secretarial
  • Scheme wind up
  • Scheme Secretary to Kodak Pension Plan, oversaw the first scheme to acquire two other businesses of the principal employer. Secretary to the Trustee Board and Company
  • Move to PPF
  • Managing stakeholders
  • High profile with media attention
  • Drafted and worked alongside communications-specialists where required developed strategies for complex member communications
  • Completed scheme returns, regulatory and compliance documents
  • Completed buy-outs for scheme sizes ranging from low millions to £200 million
  • Sub-committee chair and lead Governance Director on schemes, including: decision-making protocol, key documents are in place, reviewing risk registers, budget management
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