Non-Executive Directors (NED) community members

Seamus Creedon (Chair)

Seamus Creedon is a director of insurance and asset management businesses in the UK and Ireland.  Seamus started his career as an Actuary at Abbey Life, eventually becoming CEO of Abbey Life Ireland.  After 5 years as CEO, Seamus held various roles in financial services businesses. From 2004, Seamus held a pivotal role in shaping Solvency II Directive.

A former member of the IFoA Council, Seamus chairs the organising committee of the non-executive director member interest group.

Ashok Gupta

Ashok Gupta held his first NED position in 1994.  Since then, Ashok has been an NED at multiple financial services businesses, ranging from traditional organisations to digital and technology companies.  

Ashok is a former committee member and Senior Advisor to our group.

Kalpana Shah

Kalpana Shah is a plural NED, Member of Council at the IFoA and Chairman at the RiverStone Managing Agency. Kalpana started her career at the London Commodity Exchange before switching to insurance. Kalpana was recently recognised on the ‘Women to Watch’ list produced by Cranfield School of Management. Kalpana is a Management Committee Member of our group.

Michael Tripp

Details pending

Pauline Armitage

Pauline Armitage is a pensions specialist.  Pauline runs her own specialist GMP business which she set up in 2006. Pauline heads our LinkedIn group. Look out for Pauline’s articles on her LinkedIn page! Through our group, Pauline would like to provide aspiring NEDs with a discussion forum and support network to encourage more actuaries to serve as NEDs.

James Brannan

James Brannan is part of the non-executive director member interest group. He joined the group in 2019 to learn more about a career as an NED. James started his actuarial career at Lloyds Bank, and is now at Royal London working as a capital monitoring Actuary.

Grace Munro

Grace Munro is part of the non-executive director member interest group, responsible for website development. She joined the group in 2019 to learn more about a career as an NED.  Grace started her actuarial career at Markel, and is now at The Channel Syndicate pricing all insurance lines, specialising in Cyber and EIL.

Tariq Hameed

Tariq Hameed is an independent NED providing expertise to pension funds. Tariq is trilingual; since qualifying as an Actuary in the UK, his career has taken him to Canada, the United States of America, Lahore, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.