Kate Leigh

Client Director

strategic leadership • stakeholder management • member experience • pension scheme governance • risk transfer

Kate is a trustee director who works on schemes ranging from £23m to £750m in asset size. Her particular expertise lies in strategic leadership, stakeholder management, risk transfer work, scheme governance and member experience.

Background

Kate joined us in 2021 as a trustee director and heads up the Northern team. She acts as Chair of Trustees on a number of schemes and is a former director of the Association of Professional Pensions Trustees.

Kate’s pensions career started in 2004 with Squire Patton Boggs, where she advised corporates and trustees on all aspects of pensions law, as well as acting as a trustee director for the firm’s trustee business.

Prior to joining us at Vidett, Kate worked at the Co-operative Group for eight years, as a technical specialist in the pensions team. Her duties included leading high-profile projects including scheme sectionalisation, high value buy-ins and scheme mergers. She also acted as Secretary of the Governance Committee to the Co-op’s main £9bn defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) hybrid pension scheme.

In her personal life, Kate loves travelling, going to the cinema and theatre (she’s partial to a musical!), playing tennis and swimming