Management Advisory Board

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Mark Adderley is an experienced people and transformation director, and now non-executive director, coach and consultant. After 20 years at the top of organisations, Mark now advises leaders on facilitating change.

Mark worked on the RBS/Nat West acquisition and integration and then went to Scottish Water as Director of HR, Transformation and Business Services, after some time as CEO of the National Trust for Scotland, Mark moved into the NHS and then Heriot-Watt University as HR and OD Director, in the latter role leading on people issues across the globe.

Mark has a Passion for enabling people be the best they can be, and is particularly interested in 'changing leaders in changing times’, and how new leaders can accelerate change. After 15 years as an HR Director, Mark has a good understanding of the importance of pensions to individuals and organisations. He is fellow of the IOD and CIPD, and has outside interests in equality, squash and his own family of 4 girls and various animals.

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Mark joined SPPA’s Audit & Risk Committee and Management Advisory Board in June 2024. As an experienced public service pensions trustee, Audit & Risk Committee Chair and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, with over 20 years senior executive leadership in the rail industry, he uses his skills and experience to help organisations in a non-executive capacity in both audit and risk and across the board of directors, particularly in governance and strategic decision-making.

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Alan has worked in a number of senior leadership roles across policing in the last 30 years and has significant experience of corporate governance and transformational change. He is currently a Director and Vice Chair of East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust where he provides strategic oversight and guidance to the management team.

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Helen Mackenzie is Head of Community and Events at Art of Procurement (Procure Change LLC) that provides advisory, media and events services. Prior to joining AoP, Helen delivered a range of events and services for UK and Northern Europe based Chief Procurement Officers and their teams.

Until the end of 2018, Helen was a senior leader in the Scottish public sector and led award winning teams in both procurement and financial services. Helen’s innovative work on combining community engagement and procurement has received international recognition.

Helen has served on a number of public sector and charity boards and is currently on the board of the Hebridean Housing Partnership. Helen lives in the Isle of Lewis.

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Jane is the Chair of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, a Council member of the General Teaching Council of Scotland, a member of the Fitness to Practise Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Until mid-2023, Jane was Executive Director at the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales. Prior to joining the SRA in 2014, Jane held a series of senior roles at the General Medical Council, and before that led UK and European policy development at the Federation of Small Businesses.

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Norman is an IT professional with over thirty years’ experience in the utility industry before taking early retirement in December 2018. In his last role he was responsible for Scottish Power’s IT finance, contracts, governance, risk, audit and security, but he brings broad experience across all aspects of IT delivery. He qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) in 2007 and holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

In addition, Norman has been a member-nominated Trustee Director of the Scottish Power Pension Scheme for over twenty years and has successfully completed The Pensions Regulator Trustee Toolkit. As such, he brings extensive knowledge and experience of both defined-benefit pensions provision and the broader UK pensions governance and regulatory regime.

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Clare has worked in the pensions industry for over 30 years. She is a Board member at the London Pensions Fund Authority and is also an independent adviser to a number of public sector pension funds.

A large part of her career was spent at Lothian Pension Fund, the local government pension fund in Edinburgh, and includes 5 years as its Chief Executive. Prior to that she worked as an investment consultant.

She lives in East Lothian, enjoys gardening and is involved in a number of local community organisations.