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Rob Durbin

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

The opportunity it offers to work with different people and different situations as well as being part of a close-knit team.

Interests Outside of Work

Supporting a failing rugby team (England) as well as an up and down cricket team (also England). Plus wandering around garden centres with my better half.

Top Achievement To Date

Having worked in pensions for over 25 years, it would have to be keeping my sanity!

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Rob Durbin

Rob Durbin

Scheme Secretary and Knowledge Lead

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Rob is an experienced pensions professional specialising in scheme secretarial, governance, and management services for trustees and sponsors. Rob combines technical expertise with practical insight and as such is Pi’s internal Technical Knowledge Lead supporting colleagues in relation to the ever evolving legislative and regulatory landscape.

With a background spanning both in-house and advisory roles, he has supported schemes from 25 to 120,000 members across the UK and Ireland, working with leading organisations in financial services, retail, and hospitality. As Pension Manager for a major UK business, Rob oversaw adviser relationships, navigated complex corporate restructurings, and developed clear, effective communications for employees. He also advised senior executives and high-net-worth individuals on technical pension matters, including Annual Allowance and Fixed Protection rules.

Rob currently provides secretariat and governance support to a range of clients including a large UK Master Trust, a multinational institutional investment manager and a healthcare, fitness, and wellbeing charity. Rob has also played a key role in multiple buy-in and buy-out transactions, guiding projects from planning through to completion. He is highly experienced in running procurement exercises, from reviewing scheme administrators, actuaries, auditors, investment managers, and legal advisers to managing seamless transitions between providers.

Recent projects include designing and leading a Trustee Board effectiveness review for a regulatory body, recovering missing historic scheme documentation, and supporting the consolidation of multiple pension arrangements into a Master Trust. He has extensive experience in complaints management and has previously volunteered his expertise to the Pensions Ombudsman as part of the Early Resolution Service which seeks to resolve complaints without the need for a formal determination.

He holds the Pensions Management Institute Diploma in International Employee Benefits and the Diploma in Retirement Provision.

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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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020 8879 6500

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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.