What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role
Managing complex projects and relationships.
Interests Outside of Work
Keeping some semblance of order in the garden, skiing, fishing, and playing the piano badly.
Top Achievement To Date
Worked hand in hand with the trustees and advisory team of a large pension scheme to protect members’ interests through five years of successive distressed sponsor re-financings and M&A.
Donald Fleming
Professional Trustee
- London, UK
Donald brings a distinctive range of career experience to his trusteeship. He worked initially as a banking lawyer and then over a decade as a corporate financier in a major city firm before moving into the pensions world in 2005 and establishing a well-regarded covenant practice.
He is able to bring a corporate perspective to a trustee board having previously advised trustee boards across the range of corporate merger and acquisition transactions, scheme mergers and sectionalisation, buy-ins, buyouts, and recent innovative developments. This includes specific experience of working with larger schemes (often with overseas parents), those in the utilities, financials, telecoms industries as well as the not-for-profit sector, and large master-trusts.
Donald co-edited ‘Good Governance for Pension Schemes,’ was previously a Chair of the Employer Covenant Practitioners Association and is a regular speaker and attendee at pensions events.
Donald’s approach to trusteeship is informed by respect for the various roles and interests that all stakeholders must manage. He is a trustee of a small charity and an active member of the Loriners Livery Company.
