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Claire Altman, Head of Financial Services - Smart Pension

Claire is Head of Financial Services at Smart Pension, an award-winning fintech firm set up to meet the AE challenges head-on. The workplace pension provider now sees a new business sign up every seven minutes and 1,000 new members join a day. Claire heads up a department handling industry liaison, policy, strategy and governance as the firm experiences rapid growth. Claire took on the role following three years as chair of the Smart Pension master trust as a professional independent trustee with Capital Cranfield. At the same time, she also chaired other trustee boards (DB and DC) as well as being an IGC member. (She has maintained two of these appointments).  She has a legal background. After a law degree at Cambridge, she qualified as a barrister before moving into the City. She joined Sacker & Partners, a law firm specialising in pensions and became a partner there in 2007.