Gill Mitchell

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

Sounds incredibly cheesy but having been at Pi for over 20 years, I think I have to say the people. I have made many lifelong friendships over the years.

Interests Outside of Work

 Food – both cooking and consuming.

Top Achievement To Date

My time as Pi’s MD and helping to establish our employee ownership model.

Gill Mitchell

Gill Mitchell

Company Secretary and Compliance Officer

Since joining Pi in 2001, Gill has played a pivotal role in the company’s development, helping to shape its operations, culture, and continued success. Formerly Managing Director, Gill now serves as Company Secretary to the Pi Partnership Board and oversees all aspects of Pi’s compliance and governance framework.

As Compliance Officer, Gill ensures that Pi operates to the highest professional and ethical standards, maintaining a robust framework that underpins every aspect of the firm’s trustee and governance services. She is a member of Pi’s Governance & Compliance Committee (GCC), which reports directly to the Pi Trustee Board and plays a key role in overseeing the firm’s Sole Trustee appointments. Gill’s oversight helps ensure that governance processes remain proportionate, transparent, and fully aligned with regulatory requirements.

In addition to her governance responsibilities, Gill leads Pi’s GDPR response team and has been instrumental in embedding data protection best practices across the business. She also oversees the firm’s AAF 02/07 reporting, ensuring internal processes are rigorously maintained and independently reviewed to meet industry standards.

With over two decades at Pi, Gill’s leadership, integrity, and attention to detail have been integral to the company’s growth and reputation. Her commitment to strong governance and client service continues to drive Pi’s dedication to excellence and professionalism across all areas of its work.

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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2nd Floor Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EU

Email Us

enquiries@pipg.co.uk

our team

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.