Consulting Partner
Richard is a senior member of the Edinburgh consultancy team managing a portfolio of trustee and corporate clients. He’s also an active member of the People Strategy Group and the Occupational Services Team. Richard is one of our Pension Ombudsmen Volunteer Advisers and is currently studying with the Open University. For fun, Richard enjoys hiking, travel, and writing – there’s also the occasional half marathon, but that seems too much like hard work to count as fun.
Consulting Partner
Sammy has over 15 years’ experience working in the financial services industry, specialising in Group Risk and Healthcare. She rejoined the Secondsight team in August 2023, after previously being here for 10 years from 2008 as a Group Risk and Healthcare Adviser.
Sammy’s passion lies in ensuring her clients fully understand the additional value that wellbeing services can bring to their Risk and Healthcare policies.
Outside of work, she enjoys spending quality time with family where her 2 young children keep her on her toes!
Consulting Partner
Sarah holds qualifications from the Pensions Management Institute and Chartered Insurance Institute and is based in Secondsight’s Guildford office. She started her career in the pension industry twenty years ago; the last nine years have been spent as a Defined Contribution (DC) pension consultant.
Sarah works with a number of corporate clients and provides full consultancy services, including scheme governance, communication plans, and default investment fund support. She also engages directly with pension plan members by delivering presentations and running one-to-one pension clinics.
Alongside client responsibilities, Sarah is also involved in developing our pension proposition and managing pension provider relations.
Senior Consulting Partner
Steve has been in the financial services industry since 1977, specialising in Defined Contribution Pensions since 2009.
Steve manages relationships with clients from across a wide variety of sectors, including independent schools and not-for-profit organisations. Working from the initial contact stage through to the successful implementation of full employee benefit packages and beyond, Steve’s experience has enabled him to help Independent Schools review the Teacher’s Pension Scheme.
Being a member of our internal governance and retirement education groups, Steve helps to build and improve the services that we can offer to clients and their members.
Principal Partner
With over 20 years’ experience working in financial services and employee benefits, Sue has developed a deep level of knowledge and understanding when interpreting the needs of her clients.
Sue loves working alongside HR teams, helping them to achieve their goals. Her enthusiasm is infectious and it’s what helps set her apart from many others in the employee benefits sector.
Sue’s approach to client service, supported by her team, is exceptional and it is something that she is passionate about.
This is one reason why many of Sue’s clients come to her through a referral.
Whilst Sue has a number of clients in the IT, technology and pharmaceutical sectors, she also has many clients in other industries. Clients range in size from small start-ups and SMEs to national organisations.
Sue is able to advise on most aspects of employee benefits advice including pensions and group risk.
Associate Consulting Partner
Vanessa has over 12 years’ experience in the financial services industry, specialising in group risk and healthcare, In September 2019, she joined the Secondsight team as a Group Risk and Healthcare Adviser.
Her role involves providing advice on all Group Risk and Healthcare products. Vanessa is passionate about building strong relationships with her clients, working closely with them to ensure their policies align with their needs, and ultimately bring benefits to their employees.
Outside of work, she enjoys spending quality time with her family, taking her dogs, and sometimes cat on a good walk.