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John Chilman John Chilman

John Chilman

Group Pensions Director, FirstGroup

John has global responsibility for FirstGroup’s DB and DC schemes, including investment, benefit design, risk management and communications. He is also a Trustee of the Group’s pension arrangements for the Greyhound and Student businesses in the USA and Canada.

In addition, John is the Chairman of the £25bn Railways Pension Scheme, which provides benefits to over 350,000 members for 170 employers, and was previously a director of both RPMI and Railpen. In addition, John is an Independent Trustee Director on the Nestlé UK Pension Fund.

John qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC and held a number of financial and M&A roles in South West Electricity and Shell before moving into pensions and reward in the late 1990s. John joined FirstGroup in 1999, and after a two-year stint as Group Head of Reward at HBOS, returned to FirstGroup at the end of 2005.

John has an MA in Geography from St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

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