Our board of directors

Ruston Smith

Chairman of the board of directors

Ruston has over 30 years' experience in the pension fund and investment industry, including 14 years as the Group Pensions Director at Tesco. He's held senior positions with responsibility for strategy, governance, investment and operations for a wide range of UK funds. In 2017, he co-chaired the Automatic Enrolment Advisory Board for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in 2017, leading on engagement – an issue that is a key point of Smart Pension's long-term strategy. In 2018, he led the initiative to create a simplified annual statement for all schemes and providers to adopt. This uses consistent language and numbers – making it easier for savers to understand their statement.

Executive directors

Andrew Evans

Group Chief Executive, co-founder and board member

Andrew co-founded Smart to give real people simpler ways to save and access their savings throughout their lives. As the company has grown, world-leading institutions and governments have partnered with Smart, allowing us to help more people with their money. Previously, Andrew was an international managing director, with roles in banking and finance. He also works with cutting edge innovation foundations – awarding funding and offering advice to promising UK fintech companies and social entrepreneurs, including those who work with open banking.

Will Wynne

Group Managing Director, co-founder and board member

Will is behind Smart’s technology strategy, innovation and global vision. Starting with a solid background in private equity, Will moved to eBay's marketing department where he grew their members from three to eighteen million in three years. He also created the business case for eBay's charity arm, which raised several hundred million pounds for good causes. Will is the co-founder of ArenaFlowers.com, one of the UK’s leading flower and gift delivery businesses, and oversees fintech acceleration programmes run by Octopus Investments. Will is also Chairman of Trulience, a futuristic, digital human software firm.

Eoin Corcoran

Chief Financial Officer and board member

Eoin is responsible for Smart's finance and legal activities. With a strong background across organisations including KPMG, Eversheds as well as technology and B2B information services, Eoin's experience covers finance leadership, capital markets and fundraising, corporate, commercial and operational strategy, and M&A.

Non-executive directors

Dee McGrath

Non-Executive Director

Dee is Chief Executive Officer of Retirement and Superannuation Solutions at the Link Group. She had more than 20 years’ experience working across financial services, technology and consulting before taking up this role, having previously been the Managing Partner of IBM Global Business Services for Australia and New Zealand, with responsibility for IBM’s consulting, professional services and digital businesses. She also held the role of Vice President of Financial Services for IBM Asia Pacific, and was a member of the board of IBM Australia. Dee has also held executive roles at Visa, HP Enterprise Services and National Bank of Australia. Dee is a Director of numerous Link Group entities, including being the Chair of Link Advice, a Director of Smart Pension and a member of Chief Executive Women. She was also a founding member of the Advisory Board for Women in Payments in Australia.

Charles Janeway

Non-Executive Director

Charles is a Principal at Aquiline Capital Partners. Prior to joining the firm in 2019, he was Head of Corporate Finance at Howden, a global (re)insurance intermediary headquartered in London. Charles previously worked at General Atlantic, where he focused on financial services and technology investments across Europe. He began his career as an investment banker at Barclays Capital.

Stephen Morana

Non-Executive Director

Stephen has two decades of experience in high-growth and disruptive technology-enabled businesses. He spent a decade as part of the senior management team at Betfair, where he was CFO during the IPO in 2010. After Betfair he moved to Zoopla, where he was again CFO during their successful IPO. In 2020 he joined Cazoo where he led their IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Stephen was also audit committee chairman and then senior independent director at Entain plc the FTSE 100 business from 2016-2021, and has been a venture partner at Octopus Ventures.

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