Mercer –
Ashok Gupta has been named chair of Mercer’s UK board. Selected for his extensive board and executive experience in the financial services industry, across asset management, wealth management and the pensions segments, Gupta will also chair the risk committee and the nominations committee.
An entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in the UK insurance and financial services industry, Gupta has held a number of senior executive, advisor and actuarial positions during his career.
He chaired a Pension & Lifetime Savings Association taskforce that recommended superfunds, defined benefit consolidators for which there is now an interim regulatory regime. Gupta was also deputy chair of a Bank of England working group on procyclicality by pension funds and insurance companies.