Cushon expands senior leadership team to deliver ambitious future roadmap

Cushon, a leading fintech provider of workplace savings and pensions, has expanded its senior leadership team following a successful funding round in June 2021. 

Joining the senior leadership team are Dom Manley, Head of Product, David Harvey, Master Trust Lead and Andy Aitken, Strategic Partnerships Director to support the fintech’s impressive growth. The new hires have an impressive collective experience within pensions totalling nearly 60 years and spanning master trust, Defined Contribution and adviser platforms. These appointments are set to ensure that the company can deliver on its ambitious roadmap which has so far included the launch of the world’s first net zero pension and a new investment strategy with 15% allocation to private markets and the first Defined Contribution pensions provider to deliver impact across 100% of its portfolio. The expanded team will drive further innovation through the development of additional features and prioritisation, broaden the commercial opportunity and increase AUM for its net zero pension with blue-chip companies.

Ben Pollard, CEO and Founder of Cushon said: “We’re delighted to welcome Dom, David and Andy to the Cushon management team. They bring a tremendous wealth of experience across the workplace savings and pensions sector and will help us deliver on our ambitious growth targets.  

“As a fintech, we’re accelerating the use of technology and innovation in UK workplace savings and pensions, and critical to this is our people. All three new appointees bring a range of different skills to our existing team, ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation in the sector.”

David Harvey, new Master Trust Lead at Cushon brings a long and distinguished track record in the DC pensions space, most recently as the Master Trust Lead at Mercer. He commented: “It’s a really exciting time to be joining Cushon, both in terms of the development of its cutting-edge master trust, and a amid a buoyant master trust sector. Providers like Cushon are really pushing the envelope in terms of easy-to-use, and, crucially, genuinely useful, technology that truly helps members understand their pensions and savings in language that resonates.”

Andy Aitken, new Strategic Partnerships Director, previously worked at The AEGON Platform (previously Cofunds) for 18 years and helped it grow from £300m to over £120bn of assets under management (AUM) during his tenure. Commenting on his appointment, Andy said: “I have kept a close eye on Cushon and watched with interest as it has grown. I jumped at the opportunity to join such an exciting, fast-moving business, which has a real desire to shake up both how we invest and how our investments affect the world. And even more importantly Cushon has what it takes to make it happen.”

Dom Manley, new Head of Product, joins after seven years at Aon, and said he is“passionate about improving financial wellbeing using technology, changing behaviours and helping at each stage of someone’s financial life. I firmly believe that Cushon shares that same passion and so it’s great to be on board and a part of the exciting next phase of innovation and growth.”