Chairman: Employer-appointed

Date appointed: 13 July 2015

Martine represents Capital Cranfield Trustees Ltd (appointed by E.ON UK) as independent chair of the trustee board. 

Martine is chair of the board’s Investment Committee.

Member-nominated

Date appointed: 18 January 2018

Mike was a trustee of the Eastern scheme and then the E.ON scheme for 18 years until June 2016. He was Group Treasurer of Eastern for 11 years prior to his retirement in 2000. 

Mike is a member of the board’s Investment Committee.

Employer-appointed

Date appointed: 18 January 2018

Stefan is Head of Pension Finance & Asset Strategy at E.ON SE. He started his career as a portfolio strategy analyst at HSBC before joining E.ON in 2008 to support the Asset Strategy Group. Between 2015 and 2017 Stefan worked for Thyssenkrupp as a global pension expert before rejoining E.ON in 2017.

Stefan is a member of the board’s Investment Committee.

Member-nominated

Date appointed: 26 January 2006

Chris retired from E.ON in 2012 having worked for East Midlands Electricity Board, Powergen and latterly E.ON since leaving school in 1973. 
   
Chris is a member of the board’s Determinations Committee.

Member-nominated

Date appointed: 26 January 2006.

Derek retired from E.ON in 2010 after 40 years in the industry working as a mechanical fitter. 

Derek is a member of the board’s Determinations Committee.

Member-nominated

Date appointed: 5 August 2009

Adrian has over 30 years' experience in the pensions industry, including 20 years in the E.ON pensions team prior to his retirement. 

Adrian is a member of the board’s Audit Committee and is chair of the Determinations Committee.

Employer-appointed

Date appointed: 1 July 2020

Sara is Head of Corporate Real Estate Management and Safety Systems (CREMS).   Sara is an international M & A lawyer by background and joined E.ON in 2009 after working for 13 years for private equity company 3i.  She has had a variety of legal roles in E.ON since joining (including a 3-year secondment to Group as Head of M & A legal) before moving to CREMS in 2019.

Sara is a member of the board’s Determinations Committee.

Deputy chairman: Employer-appointed

Date appointed: 1 May 2017

Keith has a Bachelor degree in Engineering from the University of Wales and a Masters in Business Administration from Aston University.

He held a number of engineering, operational and leadership positions within Powergen/E.ON. In 2008 he was appointed Managing Director of E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH responsible for E.ON’s thermal power stations.

Keith was responsible for E.ON’s business in Turkey prior to his retirement from the Company in April 2018.
 
Keith is a member of the board’s Investment Committee.

Employer-appointed

Date appointed: 5 July 2017

Graeme trained as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC) in Birmingham and joined Powergen in 1996.

He had a number of roles within the Generation and Corporate Finance teams before becoming Director, Controlling and Accounting and then the Finance & Regulation Director at Central Networks.

He left E.ON following the Central Networks sale to be Chief Financial Officer at HS1 Limited until 2017 and is now primarily working for a number of charities.

Graeme is chair of the Board’s Audit Committee.