Board

John Wright is a Glasgow-based partner at Hymans Robertson LLP, a shareholder in Club Vita.

In his current role at Hymans Robertson, he is a director on the executive management board with responsibility for its diversifying business areas. These include HR’s Life and Financial Services consulting team and B2B investment services for the retail advice market as well as Club Vita. John also oversees HR’s incubator.

Previously John led HR’s public sector consulting team. He continues to support the local government team including client teams advising multi-billion LGPS asset pools. John is an actuary with three decades of experience in financial services. Before joining HR in 2005, John spent 15 years in UK life insurer roles.

Jenny is the international CEO of Club Vita. Before joining Club Vita, Jenny spent five years with AIG, establishing a new international pension reinsurance capability. She also has wide consulting experience, servicing the insurance industry for seven years with EY and large multi-national pension plans for four years with WTW. Jenny is a founding member of the Society of Actuaries Longevity Advisory Group, and a past member of the Board of Directors.

Douglas is the founder, and chief visionary officer, of Club Vita, specializing in applying modern data science techniques to innovate in longevity and mortality risk management. Douglas has a background in pension consulting in which he has over 30 years of experience leading to the creation of Club Vita to solve many of the problems he encountered with his clients.

Brian Okupski is CMG’s chief commercial officer and is responsible for the go-to-market strategy leading Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Services. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial information.

Prior to joining CMG, Brian was managing director and head of strategy for Managed Services at IHS Markit, a leader in digital information and services. During this time, Brian was also privileged to serve on the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee to foster standardization within the trade/settlement of credit derivatives in the wake of the financial crisis.

Prior to joining IHS Markit, Brian enjoyed a 20-year career at Bloomberg, where he focused on developing services at the intersection of financial data, analytics and technology.

He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jon is Senior Partner at Hymans Robertson. Since 2022 Jon has been leading a change programme across our pension market to ensure we continue to offer a market-leading client experience.

Prior to that Jon co-founded a multi-disciplinary team who developed new business ideas and lead to the creation of Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth. Jon is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries as well as a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. Jon’s strategic approach helps his clients manage the cost and risk involved in them, or their members, achieving their objectives. He is a regular industry speaker on risk management issues and has authored a variety of research papers.

In his spare time Jon enjoys spending time with his family as a father of three, and almost any form of exercise, which at the moment is predominantly running.

Karen is general counsel of Hymans Robertson, leading a legal team with a focus on our data and technology solutions and commercial contracts. She is based in Edinburgh.

Prior to joining HR in 2015 she was general counsel for Carphone Warehouse in the UK and supported Standard Life with their investment platform, product wrappers and international arms.

She has over 20 years experience as a commercial and corporate lawyer, establishing joint ventures and leading acquisitions internationally.

Karen has played a key role in bringing Club Vita’s internationalization to life, enabling contractual onboarding of new pension plan, advisor and insurer clients, supporting a global offering.

Emma is a London-based partner of Hymans Robertson, advising life insurers and reinsurers on actuarial issues, with over 20 years industry experience.

Emma joined Hymans Robertson in 2014 to lead the growth of risk and consulting services to the life insurance industry. Previously she worked for Milliman and Ernst & Young in London, New York and Zurich. Emma has expertise in the annuity / longevity markets, as well as financial reporting for life insurers. She has advised on a full range of assignments covering mergers and acquisitions, annuity transfers, longevity de-risking, market entry analyses, product development, reinsurance optimization, as well as worked on assignments covering IFRS, Solvency II, embedded value, and risk and capital management.

Emma chairs the Financial Reporting Practitioner Committee of the industry trade body ILAG (Investment and Life Assurance Group) and is also published editor of the book 'Longevity Risk' by Risk Books.

Chris is a member of Eckler’s Investment Consulting Practice in Toronto and has more than 20 years of broad experience in pension consulting, investment consulting and investment management. In this role, he has overseen the establishment of Club Vita in Canada.

As an investment expert, Chris has served a wide variety of clients during his career and has special expertise in providing meaningful and practical advice in areas such as asset allocation and investment policy, performance evaluation, modeling, and investment manager selection.

Prior to joining Eckler in 2009, Chris was a vice president at an investment management firm.

Chris is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree. Chris is a CFA Charterholder and a Fellow of Society of Actuaries and Canadian Institute of Actuaries.