Jonathan is editor of Professional Pensions and has been reporting on UK occupational pensions since 2001. He has won a number of awards during his career, most recently the SPP Trade Journalist of the Year Award in 2019. He is also holder of the PMI's Retirement Provision Certificate.

Henry Odogwu is managing director, and head of UK Institutional iShares & Wealth at BlackRock. He leads a team focused on driving adoption of the firm’s index and active investment solutions amongst UK asset managers and asset owners. Henry joined BlackRock in September 2020 from FTSE Russell, where he spent 4 years as head of European Asset Owner & Consultant sales, and latterly was additionally responsible for the wider continental European sales team. Henry also spent 7 years at MSCI were he led teams responsible for selling risk and portfolio management analytics to buy side & sell side institutions. He began his career in banking, working in a variety of roles at firms including Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Henry holds a BEng (hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University.

Since joining River and Mercantile in 2013, Grace has focused on delivering macro solutions to a wide range of clients. Her primary responsibility is investment solution design, with a particular focus on the ESG strategies. As a member of the R&M ESG Investment Group, Grace is tasked with facilitating collaboration across the business and driving initiatives and investment research relating to ESG.

Aatish Suchak is Head of Asset Owner Client Coverage and Consultant Relations, EMEA at MSCI Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE: MSCI) and a leading global provider of investment decision support tools, including indexes and portfolio risk and performance analytics.

Aatish is responsible for business development and implementation of regional strategies to encourage MSCI solutions adoption by the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, investment consultants and other institutional investors.

He joined MSCI in 2004 and has held a variety of positions, including Head of EMEA Client Service and more recently Head of Index Sales to UK Asset Managers.

Prior to MSCI, Aatish worked as a Portfolio Manager in the Global Tactical Asset Allocation team at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in New York, and as a Fund Accountant at State Street in Boston.

Aatish holds an MBA and MSc. in Finance from Northeastern University, Boston.