Team

Douglas is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Club Vita, specializing in applying modern data science techniques to innovate in longevity and mortality risk management. Douglas has a background in pension consulting in which he has over 30 years of experience leading to the creation of Club Vita to solve many of the problems he encountered with his clients.

Steven is Club Vita’s chief data scientist and is the driver of our serial innovation. He leads our product development and delivery through research and innovation with a multi-disciplinary team analyzing predictors and emerging trends of mortality rates and the implications of longevity risk for pension plans and insurers. ​He is passionate about the longevity market, having worked on many innovative transactions including the first UK pension plan longevity swap to leverage a sponsor owned insurance vehicle. ​

Erik leads the dissemination of Club Vita’s insights and analytics. He began his career as a mathematician, working at a number of universities around Europe, while moonlighting as a part time street performer. He transitioned to the world of actuarial science in 2011, retaining his passion for engaging communication, training first as a pensions actuary with Mercer and Hymans Robertson and later specializing in longevity analytics with Club Vita.​

As Head of Pensions for Club Vita UK, Jill’s primary focus is to implement Club Vita’s vision of improving access to cutting edge data-science tools and techniques in the UK pensions market. Her role involves supporting Club Vita’s pension fund subscribers and licenced pension advisers in understanding, quantifying, and managing longevity risk. Jill began her career as an actuary and has more than a decade of experience in supporting both private and public sector pension schemes in the UK. Jill was awarded the Actuarial Post Star of the Future award in 2021.

Dan is a qualified actuary who joined Club Vita in 2024 as Business Development Director, bringing with him extensive experience across both the retail, wealth management, and pensions consulting industries. His role involves working with a broad range of existing and prospective clients including (re)insurers, advisers, and fintech platforms – helping them get the most out of the extensive longevity analytics that Club Vita provides, enabling them to better understand and manage longevity risk.

Kirsty is an experienced Senior Data Operations Analyst who oversees the day to day running of the UK Operations Team. Kirsty is also responsible for assessing the quality of Club member data submissions, performing experience analyses, preparing detailed longevity analytics reporting and ensuring results are delivered in a timely manner. Prior to joining Club Vita in 2009, Kirsty had 14 years’ experience in both third-party and in-house money purchase and defined benefit pensions administration, working with some of the largest pension schemes in the UK and with International Pension Schemes.

Conor is our head of analytics at Club Vita. Having joined Hymans Robertson straight from University in the last millennium, he qualified as an actuary in the pensions consultancy, before helping with the launch of Club Vita in the UK, and subsequently becoming a full time longevity expert. These days he’s responsible for the calibration of our VitaCurve baseline mortality tables across each of our territories, as well as a number of our internal models which help keep the systems running behind the scenes.

As a Marketing Assistant, Samantha engages with Club Vita’s community through the company’s website, social media, and emails. Samantha also coordinates with the team to ensure that Club Vita remains top of mind when it comes to longevity risk analysis including appearances at events and conference. Samantha has a background in digital marketing and event management. When not researching marketing trends, you can find Samantha crocheting or building a Lego set.