Tim Webb qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1993 and has more than 30 years’ experience of providing pensions solutions for clients throughout the UK and overseas.
Tim began his career as an actuarial student with Clay & Partners in 1979, working with a variety of clients, both small and large, and gradually took on greater responsibility for service delivery and people management. By 1993, Tim had moved to Birmingham as Branch Manager in the newly formed Alexander Clay & Partners.
Sedgwick Noble Lowndes
In 1996 Tim was appointed as Managing Executive – Midlands Region for Sedgwick Noble Lowndes, a role that afforded him full management responsibility for a region employing 250 staff across 4 offices and working with 250 corporate and 3,000 individual clients.
Bacon & Woodrow
By 1998, Tim had decided to return to a more hands-on actuarial and consultancy role. At Bacon & Woodrow he led a significant change project to introduce a new service through multi-disciplinary teams into most of the firm’s offices, took responsibility for detailed design work on product offering and marketing, and acquired £1million regular new business income in 2000 alone.
Gissings
Tim was then offered the role of Director at Gissings with responsibility for managing 1/3 of the actuarial and consultancy clients, developing services and delivering advice. In the space of 4 years, Tim was personally responsible for services to clients to the value of £10 million. He was appointed Interim Chief Actuary in 2003 with the aim of rebuilding the actuarial practice and established 3 actuarial teams with 6 new recruits to support a revamped structure. Tim was a Board Director of Gissings Group Management Ltd, Gissings Consultancy Services Ltd and Gissings Trustees Ltd.
TW Pensions Consulting
In 2005, Tim decided to try a fresh approach to consulting services and set up his own business offering dedicated senior actuarial advice primarily to sponsoring employers. With a growing list of clients, TW Pensions Consulting is now firmly established and Tim looks forward to developing the business in the coming years.
Tim is the author of ‘Tolley’s guide to Scheme-specific Funding’ published in March 2006 and is a cotributor to Lexis Nexis’s Family Finance in Practice , Tottell’s Budget summaries and other publications.