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Chris Cummings, Chief Executive, The Investment Association & Deputy Chair, Retail Investment Campaign

Chris Cummings is the Chief Executive of The Investment Association, a post he has held since September 2016. The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK-based investment managers.

Chris is a member of HM Treasury’s Investment Management Taskforce, and was a founding member of its Financial Services Trade & Investment Board. 

He is the Chair of the Risk Warning Review and the Deputy Chair of the Retail Investment Campaign - both announced as part of the Government's Leed Reforms in July 2025.

He is a Board member on EFAMA, the European trade association for investment management and former Chair of IIFA, the international association for investment management. He is also a Chair of Just Finance Foundation.

Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley DBE

Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley became Lady Mayor of London 7^th November 2025. She is the 697^th Lord Mayor, the third woman to hold the office, and the first to be styled “Lady Mayor”.

Dame Susan Langley is Chair of Gallagher UK, and the Senior Independent Director for UKAR (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford and Bingley). Previously she was the Lead Non-Executive Director for the Home Office, a Trustee for Macmillan Cancer, CEO Financial & Professional Services at the Department for International Trade (DIT), Executive Director North America and Market Development for Lloyd's of London, Director of Lloyd’s Asia and Chairman of Lloyd’s Japan. Prior to this, Susan held various Insurance Board positions. She joined the Insurance Market from PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she was a Principal Consultant working with a range of FTSE 100 companies.

A founding member of the Government Women's Business Council, she is a past recipient of the Insurance Institute of London (IIL) President’s Award, the FS Women in the City Achievement Award, Women to Watch, Leading Women in Reinsurance and top 20 inspirational City Women. Born in the East End, she is passionate about social mobility and involved in a number of charitable and mentoring roles. In 2015 she received an OBE for services to women in business and in 2023, a DBE for public service to the financial services industry. Dame Susan graduated (BSc Hons) from Southampton University and married Gary in 2003. She is a Liveryman of the Insurers and Drapers and a Freeman of the Goldsmiths. Dame Susan is the Alderwoman for the City of London Aldgate Ward and served as Aldermanic Sheriff of the City of London 2023/2024.

Simon Pilcher, Chief Executive Officer, USS Investment Management Limited

Simon was appointed Chief Executive of the wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS Investment Management Limited) in October 2019 to lead the team who are responsible for the management of scheme assets, both for the DB and the DC sections of the scheme, investing across both public and private markets. Approximately 70% of USS’s investments are managed in-house and USSIM has responsibility for selecting and overseeing third-party managers where these are used. USSIM is also the principal investment advisor to the scheme.

Simon started his career in asset management in 1987 at Morgan Grenfell before moving to Prudential in 1998, a year before it acquired M&G Investments. At M&G Prudential he led the Fixed Income and Alternatives businesses for two decades and latterly was also asked to Chair the Real Estate division.

He has a degree from Cambridge University.

Rashmi Madan, Senior Managing Director and Head of EMEA, Blackstone Private Wealth

Rashmi Madan is a Senior Managing Director and Head of EMEA in Blackstone Private Wealth. Private Wealth's mission is to bring institutional quality products across a broad spectrum of alternative asset classes to high net worth clients and their advisors.

Ms. Madan joined Blackstone in 2011. Prior to her current role, she was Chief Operating Officer of Institutional Client Solutions (ICS) in Europe, as well as Head of ICS Europe for Blackstone Credit.

Before joining Blackstone, Ms. Madan worked for eight years in Credit Sales and Structured Credit at JPMorgan where she focused primarily on raising capital for CLO managers, hedge funds and private credit funds from European institutional investors. Prior to that, Ms. Madan spent five years at Morgan Stanley working in Leveraged Finance and Debt Capital Markets in London and New York, respectively.

Ms. Madan received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University where she majored in Industrial and Labor Relations.

Mark Versey, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director, Aviva Investors Holdings Limited and Aviva Investors Global Services Limited

Mark is CEO and an Executive Director of both Aviva Investors Holdings Limited and Aviva Investors Global Services Limited. He sits on the Executive Committee of Aviva Plc. Aviva Investors today manages in excess of £240bn of assets for the Aviva group and external clients.

Mark Versey joined Aviva Investors in 2014 and was appointed CEO in January 2021. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer for Aviva Investors Real Assets business.

Mark sits on the Board of the Investment Association having previously been on its Investment Committee and having chaired its Sustainability and Responsible Investment Committee.

He is a member of the Investor & Issuer Forum with a remit to enhance UK market effectiveness and he chairs the Advisory Council of the Kings Business School in London. He sits on the UK government’s Net Zero Council and the Transition Finance Council.

Experience and qualifications
Prior to Aviva Investors, Mark worked as Chief Investment Officer at Friends Life Group and Chief Investment Officer of AXA in the UK.

Mark began his career as a consultant Actuary and then gained a diverse experience across investment markets with investment banking roles in fixed income, equities and capital markets. He has extensive investment and risk management experience.

Mark is a qualified Actuary and has a Mathematics degree from Cambridge University.

Sophie Dodson is a Managing Director, Head of Global Wealth – Europe, where she leads the wealth distribution efforts, based in London.

Before joining Carlyle in 2021, Sophie was an Executive Director within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) for 11 years, responsible for building out the institutional client franchise across various regions, including EMEA and Australia. Sophie has served on several Boards, latterly as a Non-Executive Director of the BEST Superannuation Fund.

Imran Razvi, Senior Policy Adviser, Pensions & Institutional Market, Policy, Strategy & Innovation, The Investment Association

Imran Razvi is Senior Policy Adviser, Pensions & Institutional Market at the Investment Association. Imran leads the Association's policy work on pensions and retirement, covering a range of topics in institutional investment management. Since 2019 Imran has worked on the development of the Long-Term Asset Fund regime and its operational implementation in the Defined Contribution pensions and retail markets as part of the Association's work to broaden investor access to private markets. Prior to the Investment Association, Imran began his career as an Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions before working as a senior policymaker on pensions reform at the Department.

Henri Loombe-Temple, Product Structuring Director, Schroders Capital

Henri Loombe-Temple is a product structuring director in Schroders Capital, which is the private markets arm of the Schroders group. He has 14 years of asset management experience and works globally on private markets fund structures, including those for the wealth market. He has worked on LTAFs since their initial regulatory consultations, and has most recently delivered what Schroders understands to be the first two wealth-eligible LTAFs to the UK market; composing a private equity strategy and an energy infrastructure strategy. As well as supporting products, he spends a significant amount of time providing private markets structuring advice to clients. He also co-chairs the Retail LTAF Distribution Group, which is an industry group initiated by the Investment Association and the Platforms Association to facilitate the uptake of LTAFs in the UK market. He spent the first six years of his career at PIMCO, predominantly in their product team covering a wide range of fixed income and alternative strategies. He has a degree in engineering from Imperial College, London.

Jeremy Soutter, Managing Director, Carne Gorup

Jeremy joined the Carne Group in early 2018 as Managing Director, Business Development. From 2019 to 2025, he also served as Chief Executive Officer of Carne Global Managers (UK) Limited, the Group’s UK-based ACD/AIFM.

Prior to joining Carne, Jeremy led the product development function at Standard Life Investments from 2014 and previously held the role of Global Head of Product at both Ignis Asset Management and Aviva Investors between 1998 and 2014.

Jeremy has worked in the mutual fund industry since 1980, beginning his career at Lloyds Bank and later Gartmore Fund Managers. In 1985, he joined Janus Henderson as a Portfolio Manager, where over a 12-year period he progressed from managing private client portfolios to Technical Director.

Throughout his career, Jeremy has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has played an active role in shaping industry regulation and market practice. His contributions include working with HM Treasury and the FSA on the development of Open-Ended Investment Companies (OEICs) and UK tax-transparent fund structures (TTFs and ACS), as well as serving on a number of industry and regulatory bodies. These have included membership of the Investment Association’s International Distribution and International Trade & Investment Committees, Chair of the IA Product and Regulation Committee, Chair of the ALFI Real Estate Working Group, participation in the IOSCO Liquidity Working Group (2010–11), and membership of several ESMA working groups.

Jonathan Lipkin, Director of Policy, Strategy and Innovation, The Investment Association

Jonathan is Director of Policy, Strategy and Innovation at The Investment Association (IA) and a longstanding member of the IA's Executive Committee. Jonathan’s role focuses on helping the investment management industry to best serve its customer markets at a time of accelerating change. The PSI Division has evolved into a multi-disciplinary and diverse team that covers a wide range of policy and regulation affecting the industry, including competition, communication, financial stability and fund governance, as well as the broader shape of pensions and long-term savings markets. It also houses a specialist Innovation and Operations Unit to assist the industry in adapting to new technologies and help shape the broader landscape. Jonathan joined the IA in 2005, becoming Director of Public Policy and a member of the IA Executive Committee in 2012. Prior to 2005, he worked for a number of years at Oxford Analytica, a geopolitical analysis and advisory firm. At OA, he led European political and economic analysis serving a wide range of corporate and government clients, both domestic and overseas. Jonathan is a Board Member of the Cost Transparency Initiative, Chair of the EFAMA Pensions Group, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Asset Management Research at Bayes Business School. He writes and speaks regularly both in the UK and abroad on investment management and pensions issues. 

Martin Dietz, Head of Diversified Strategies, Asset Allocation, L&G

Martin is responsible for the L&G’s Private Market Access fund – a semi-liquid global private market fund designed for UK pension investors – as well as a range of DC-focused diversified growth funds. He is a member of L&G Asset Management's Multi-Asset Funds team. As an asset allocator and fund manager, he has over 15 years of experience with alternative asset classes and the management of fund-of-funds. Prior to joining L&G in September 2012, Martin was a senior investment consultant at Towers Watson where he was a member of its Global Investment Committee and UK Portfolio Construction Group. At TW, his responsibilities included asset class and manager research on liquid and illiquid alternatives. Martin previously worked as a manager at Ernst & Young in its Financial Services Risk Management. He has a PhD (summa cum laude) in economics and finance from the University of St Gallen, graduated from the doctoral programme of the Swiss National Bank at Gerzensee and was a visiting PhD student in economics at UC Berkeley. 

James Monk, Investment Director, Fidelity International

James is a Workplace Investment Director at Fidelity International since February 2023, looking after the FutureWise Target Dated Fund default strategy and its journey to-and-through retirement. I manage a few key strategic IO clients and come with 15 years DC Investment industry experience and is qualified as a Regulated Financial Planner. James’ experience covers investment design, private assets, sustainability, retirement and the workplace provider industry. He is a member of the Investment Association Retirement Income committee and was part of the Bank of England’s Productive Working Finance Group, making retirement and private assets more accessible.

Sarah has been the FCA’s Deputy Chief Executive since June 2025.

The new role has been created to reflect the FCA's expanding remit. As Deputy Chief Executive, Sarah will also support the FCA's increasingly international focus, given it's role supporting UK growth and competitiveness. 

Sarah joined the FCA in June 2021 to jointly lead the supervision, Policy and Competition division. Sarah has most recently been responsible for Consumers & Competition, having previously led the FCA's Market function. 

Sarah also has Executive responsibility for the FCA's International work & personally spearheaded recent G20/Financial Stability Board work on leverage in non-bank financial institutions. 

Sarah is the Executive Director Sponsor for the FCA's Edinburgh Office. 

Prior to joining the FCA, Sarah was a Director of the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), a multi - agency partnership housed in National Crime Agency, created in late 2018 to deliver UK system leadership on Economic crime.  

Rachel Harbers, Principal, Blackstone

Rachel Harbers is a Principal within Blackstone Private Wealth, based in London. She focuses on product origination and development of new strategies and fund structures for individual investors across a wide range of alternative asset classes.

Before joining Blackstone in 2022, Ms. Harbers spent five years at Morgan Stanley, working in the Private Wealth Management and Investment Management divisions in Sydney and London, respectively.

Ms. Harbers holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. She is the Chair of the Private Markets Committee at The Investment Association, a UK trade body representing the asset management industry, and serves on the charity board for Help for Children (HFC) UK. In 2021, she was recognized as a winner in the WeAreTheCity Rising Star Awards for Investment Management.

Namita Kain, Head of Private Markets, The Investment Association

Namita began her career in consulting before moving into asset management, where she has worked across both public and private markets, including ETFs, equity funds, private equity, and venture capita, in a range of corporate and product strategy roles. Most recently, she was at Octopus Investments from which she joined the Investment Association to lead their work and engagement on all issues related to private markets, advocating for the investment management perspective on relevant regulatory and legislative developments and championing the role of private market investment in delivering economic growth.  She has also completed an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School.

Tom Collier, Managing Director, Apollo

Tom Collier joined Apollo in 2024 as a Managing Director in the Client and Product Solutions group in Europe, where he is a Product Specialist focused on Asset Backed Finance strategies.

Prior to joining Apollo, Tom was an Executive Vice President at PIMCO, where he served as an Alternatives Strategist from 2012 to 2024. At PIMCO, he was a product specialist for various private credit, opportunistic and hedge funds in EMEA, and was responsible for product development in Europe. From 2001 to 2012, Tom worked at alternative investment management subsidiaries of HSBC and Bank of New York Mellon, having begun his career at Barclays.

He received a B.Sc. from University College London.

Patrick Connors, Global Head of Private Credit, DWS

Patrick joined DWS in 2025 and has over 20 years of experience in private financing and credit markets spanning a wide variety of asset classes and industries. Prior to his current position, Patrick worked with Deutsche Bank in London as the European Head of the Credit Financing and Solutions Group overseeing asset based finance, direct lending, transportation finance and infrastructure debt. He was previously the head of the European Asset Based Finance team for ten years at Deutsche Bank.  Before that, he worked for Citigroup in New York and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago

Patrick holds a Bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Maryam Longrus, Head of Private Markets, FE fundinfo

Maryam Longrus has more than 20 years of experience in financial services with a focus on private markets. In her FE fundinfo role she is leading the development of technology and data solutions for private markets clients, helping them respond to investor expectations on transparency and reporting as well as regulatory demands, and encouraging closer links between investors, fund managers and technology providers.

Bryan Tseng, CFA, Director, Fidelity International

Bryan Tseng, CFA is a Director at Fidelity International and a senior private markets product leader with experience across private credit, real estate, and multi‑asset alternative investment strategies. He focuses on the structuring and development of private markets investment products, working closely with investment teams and global distribution partners across the full product lifecycle for institutional and wealth clients.

Prior to joining Fidelity International, Bryan held a range of roles at Fidelity Investments in the United States across corporate strategy and investment products. Bryan holds an MBA from Yale University and degrees in Economics as well as in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Genn, CEO, Goji

David Genn is the CEO of Goji, a British fintech company and part of the Euroclear group. Following Euroclear’s acquisition of Goji, David also serves as Euroclear’s Head of Product, Alternative and Private Market Funds. In this expanded capacity, David is responsible for driving the strategic evolution of private market infrastructure, bridging the gap between traditional financial systems and the digital future of alternatives. A developer by background, David upholds innovation, keeps technology at the core of his work, and simplifies the complex.

Brian McNulty, Partner, Digital Venture Fund & Digital Technology Transfer Fund, Lingfeng Capital

GP at Lingfeng Capital, DTTF and DVF Fund (first tokenised venture fund, launched on Archax and London Stock Exchange)
Seasoned entrepreneur with numerous successful exits including FundAdminChain / tocan.io / Tradermade International / DBFS Consultancy. Prior to that Brian was a Senior Derivatives Trader with Rand Merchant Bank.

Glasgow University Honours Mathematics graduate and Financial Technician (CFTe) level II certified.