Executive team

Ian was appointed as Interim CEO of Nest Corporation on 1 May 2024.

Ian has 25 years’ experience working in financial services. He was a Group Board Director at Skipton Building Society from 2012 to 2023 where he held positions of Commercial & Strategy Director for 10 years and then Interim Group CEO. Prior to his time at Skipton Building Society Ian has held senior leadership roles at Homeloan Management Limited, Virgin Money, Bradford & Bingley and Capital One. 

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April is responsible for shaping our people strategy and fostering the culture we need to achieve our purpose and deliver on our promise to members.

April has 20 years' experience working with financial service leaders in the UK and globally, bridging the gap between ideas, strategy and execution to drive cultural and behavioural change. She leads teams that join the dots, creating and framing the story of colleague experiences. 

April's previous experience includes roles at Saga, Aon, Prudential and Lloyd’s of London. She grew up in Australia and originally trained as a psychotherapist before joining the corporate world.

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Camilla makes sure we have a coherent and robust corporate strategy, and that we see it come to life across Nest. This is how we'll deliver our purpose and drive better outcomes for members. 

Camilla has a multi-disciplinary background. She began her career as a strategy consultant with Booz & Company before joining Ofgem as an economist, leading wholesale energy market reform policies. 

This experience of shaping markets in pursuit of better outcomes, and an interest in the innovation that exists in the space between public and private sector organisations, was what brought her to Nest.

In her time here, Camilla has worked across and led multiple functions, including strategy and product and service design. She also helped develop the requirements for our new scheme solution.

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Dan Davis, Chief Risk Officer at Nest is a Certified member of the Institute of Risk Management. He has 10 years' senior experience leading risk and compliance teams within pensions and prior to this in high profile civil engineering projects. Dan has also supported the World Bank with their engagements in Georgia and Bulgaria to set up and improve the risk and governance structures of their national pension providers.

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Stephen will be the Interim Chief Risk Officer until May 2026 while Dan Davis takes parental leave.

He's a Fellow of the IFOA (Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) and represents them on international bodies, including the body that governs the global CERA (Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary) qualification.

He has 15 years' experience as a Chief Risk Officer, at Allianz UK, the PPF and Saga Insurance.

Outside Nest, Stephen is a non-executive director of ORIC International, which provides risk intelligence to financial services firms, sits on the risk and audit committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners, tand is a trustee and Treasurer of Pipe Up for Pipe Organs.

Gavin has been involved with the development of auto enrolment since 2007, initially advising DWP on the operational impacts of the proposed legislation and moving on to the development of the requirements for what would become the solution for Nest.

Prior to his work at Nest, Gavin spent almost his entire career in the corporate pensions sector.

Louise joined as Interim CFO on 14 March 2025.

Louise has 26 years’ experience working in financial services. Most recently she was CFO at British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB), a UK bank delivering trade finance and investment expertise to clients in African and Middle Eastern regions. In this role, Louise held the Regulatory SMF2 position, Senior Accounting Officer responsibility, Pension Board Trustee role and was Head of the Finance and Treasury Functions for the bank. 

Prior to her time at BACB, Louise held senior roles in finance, treasury, risk and regulatory at various capital markets institutions including Daiwa Capital Markets, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse. These institutions allowed Louise to gain experience across a range of different cultures, markets, financial instruments, regulatory landscapes, stakeholder groups and commercial strategies.

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Mark has been an investment manager for over 27 years and managed money at a variety of institutions.

Mark was head of Japanese equities at Gartmore, and held the role of Chief Investment Officer at American Express Asset Management International.

Before joining Nest, Mark was a partner at the boutique investment manager Thames River Capital LLP.

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Neville has extensive experience in the financial services sector, having held senior legal roles at RSA, AEGON, St James’s Place and Lloyds Bank.

Neville began his career in the Army, serving as a Captain in the Royal Engineers.

Will is Executive Director of Nest Insight, Nest’s in-house research and thought leadership unit focused on delivering cutting-edge research into how to improve retirement outcomes for the ‘DC generation’. He has nearly 15 years of experience working in strategy, public policy and research relating to personal finance and pensions, including time working for the UK Government on financial inclusion and on the design and implementation of their landmark Automatic Enrolment programme. In 2008 he joined Nest, shortly after it was formed (then as PADA) and joined the executive team in 2010 as Strategy Director.

In 2016 he oversaw the launch of the Insight Unit and since earlier this year has been focused on it full time. Outside of Nest he is a member of the research committee of the International Centre for Pensions Management, and of the World Economic Forum’s project expert committee for their Retirement and Investment Systems Reform Project.

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