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What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

Contrary to popular belief, working in pensions has always been varied and interesting. 

I appreciate the wide range of roles that a professional Trustee undertakes and the experience gained in multiple roles since starting as a pensions scheme administrator is invaluable.

Interests Outside of Work

Walking two crazy English Springer Spaniels, clay pigeon shooting and supporting Liverpool Football Club (not always a pleasure!)

Top Achievement To Date

Professionally – usefully employing my c.36 years of pensions experience to support my clients and colleagues.

Personally – hitting two clay pigeons, with one shot.

Chris Baker

Chris Baker

Professional Trustee

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  • Lancashire, UK

Chris is an experienced pensions professional with over 29 years in the industry, bringing deep technical knowledge and a pragmatic approach to trustee governance. As an Accredited Trustee through the Association of Professional Pension Trustees, Chris holds both lead and second trustee appointments and plays an integral role across a wide range of schemes.

Chris chairs the Governance and Compliance Committee of Pi Pension Trustees, which is central to shaping, embedding, and monitoring Pi’s Sole Trustee policies and procedures. He also leads Pi’s monthly Trustee Forum, a key platform for knowledge-sharing and discussion of emerging regulatory, legal, and industry developments, fostering collaboration and best practice across the trustee team.

Known for his thorough and composed approach, Chris supports trustee boards on a variety of complex matters, including sensitive member deaths, IDRP complaints, and broader governance reviews. He is also experienced in designing and delivering member engagement programmes, ensuring communications are clear, consistent, and aligned with members’ needs.

Before joining Pi in 2018, Chris spent 15 years in a scheme secretariat role, providing governance and secretarial support to both DB and DC schemes in the UK and Ireland. His earlier career included roles as a pension’s consultant and senior administrator, giving him a strong grounding in scheme operations and regulatory compliance.

Chris combines a high level of professionalism with a collaborative mindset and strong attention to detail. Trustees and advisers value his ability to bring structure and clarity to discussions, particularly when dealing with complex or high-stakes decisions.

Through his leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to effective governance, Chris makes a significant contribution to both Pi’s trustee services and the successful management of the schemes he supports.

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Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

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Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.