
John Wright, Chair
John Wright is a Glasgow-based partner at Hymans Robertson LLP, a shareholder in Club Vita.
In his current role at Hymans Robertson, he is a director on the executive management board with responsibility for its diversifying business areas. These include HR’s Life and Financial Services consulting team and B2B investment services for the retail advice market as well as Club Vita. John also oversees HR’s incubator.
Previously John led HR’s public sector consulting team. He continues to support the local government team including client teams advising multi-billion LGPS asset pools. John is an actuary with three decades of experience in financial services. Before joining HR in 2005, John spent 15 years in UK life insurer roles.

Douglas Anderson
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.

Jon Hatchett
Jon is Senior Partner at Hymans Robertson. Since 2022 Jon has been leading a change programme across our pension market to ensure we continue to offer a market-leading client experience.
Prior to that Jon co-founded a multi-disciplinary team who developed new business ideas and lead to the creation of Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth. Jon is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries as well as a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. Jon’s strategic approach helps his clients manage the cost and risk involved in them, or their members, achieving their objectives. He is a regular industry speaker on risk management issues and has authored a variety of research papers.
In his spare time Jon enjoys spending time with his family as a father of three, and almost any form of exercise, which at the moment is predominantly running.

Karen Gilchrist
Karen is general counsel of Hymans Robertson, leading a legal team with a focus on our data and technology solutions and commercial contracts. She is based in Edinburgh.
Prior to joining HR in 2015 she was general counsel for Carphone Warehouse in the UK and supported Standard Life with their investment platform, product wrappers and international arms.
She has over 20 years experience as a commercial and corporate lawyer, establishing joint ventures and leading acquisitions internationally.
Karen has played a key role in bringing Club Vita’s internationalization to life, enabling contractual onboarding of new pension plan, advisor and insurer clients, supporting a global offering.

Chris Brisebois
Chris is a member of Eckler’s Investment Consulting Practice in Toronto and has more than 20 years of broad experience in pension consulting, investment consulting and investment management. In this role, he has overseen the establishment of Club Vita in Canada.
As an investment expert, Chris has served a wide variety of clients during his career and has special expertise in providing meaningful and practical advice in areas such as asset allocation and investment policy, performance evaluation, modeling, and investment manager selection.
Prior to joining Eckler in 2009, Chris was a vice president at an investment management firm.
Chris is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree. Chris is a CFA Charterholder and a Fellow of Society of Actuaries and Canadian Institute of Actuaries.