Chris Connelly’s role at Heywood encompasses strategy right across the pension landscape. Chris has over 30 years’ experience, starting in pensions administration and evolving into solution and service design across 3 continents.
Chris has previously worked on many industry initiatives including:
- helping draft TPR’s data quality guidelines and reporting,
- seconding into the Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP) at MaPS, to ensure direct, practical experience was built into the industry infrastructure, standards and legislation.
- advising PDP as a member of MaPS’ Pensions Dashboards Advisory Group
- chairing a collaborative group of industry software providers to help input into the PDP, PASA and wider engagement with the Regulators.
After being with PASA since inception, he was appointed Director in March 2025.
In 2022, his contributions to the pension industry through his work in PASA and MaPS were recognised by the readers of Pensions Age, awarding him the “Pensions Personality of the Year”.
