Trustees
Chairman:
Chris Rumsey's involvement with innovation in property ownership and financial services was developed during his time as the chief executive of an FSA-regulated property fund management group. After leading a successful management-buy-out of that group he concentrated on his research into the potential for retirement-age individuals to gain more from their property ownership. In turn this led to the creation of Retirement Plus, an equity release business that introduced a new area of consumer choice with its ground-breaking Property Plan.
Chris is a Fellow of the RICS and has served as a director of several property companies. He has long held an interest in developing the relationship between workplace skills and life skills. In connection with this he was formerly chairman of SkillRetail, the original accredited skills competition for the UK retail industry
Philip Best currently holds the position of Chief Risk Officer for Threadneedle Asset Management. Philip has held a number of senior risk management positions within the financial services industry, previously holding the position of Director at both Abbey National and Hambros.
Philip is a well known and respected senior industry figure within risk management and is the author of a standard text on financial risk management: Implementing Value at Risk, Wiley, 1998. Philip continues to be at the forefront in risk management, writing articles and giving lectures at industry conferences.
Philip also has significant experience of management consultancy, gained at Coopers & Lybrand, Capco and through building his own consultancy practice.
Philip graduated from the University of Salford in 1983, with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
Mark Bingham has been giving advice to individuals on financial matters since 1986. He now works exclusively with employers, helping them to engage their staff through their employee benefits, the main aspect of which is transforming the way in which staff save for retirement. Mark is one of the team at Secondsight that first introduced the American SMarT(TM) system of pension savings to the UK and which continues to get people to save properly for the future when most others are following an opposite trend. Mark has spoken on platforms around the world on how to engage people with saving for their future.
Christine Daniel is currently a Director of FamilyLife a ministry of the charitable organisation Agape Ministries Ltd. FamilyLife is a network of people who care about and want to do something to help strengthen relationships and support marriage in the UK.
Christine and her husband Mark lead the charity and she is an author and speaker on relational issues. She has an interest in helping people manage their personal finances well as part of strong and stable family life.
Christine worked for National Westminster Bank in international risk management and in lending to small and medium sized businesses and the personal sector (1983-85 & 1986-1993). She also worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong (1985-86).
Christine graduated in 1983 with a degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College, London.
Tim Thorne is a leading innovation expert with 20 years experience including CEO of leading Innovation consultancy, Edengene; Group Innovation Director at RBS and CEO of new ventures for Securicor and BT.
Currently he has a portfolio of innovation positions including non-exec for Innovation at Eon and Director of Innovation at Cancer Research. He is also developing several new ventures including a Financial Services customer insight portal with KAE Marketing Intelligence. Tim has a history of using innovation to develop fairer services for customers in telecoms, utilities and banking.
At RBS his track record includes mobile banking, Nat West Money Manager, Goal-based Savings and O2 Cash Manager. Most recently his team developed and launched the Nat West Customer Charter.
