John Chilman

John joined as Chief Executive of Railpen in June 2019. He is an Executive Director of Railpen Limited and Railway Pension Investments Limited. He previously served for 12 years as a Director of the Railways Pension Scheme Trustee Company, the last 5 years of which he was Chair. John is also an Independent Trustee of the Nestle UK pension fund and is a Director of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, where he also chairs its Policy Board, and is a Trustee of the Pensions Policy Institute.

John is a Chartered Accountant by qualification, and was previously Group Head of Pensions at National Grid. Prior to that John held senior financial, commercial and pension positions at a number of large companies, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, South Western Electricity, Shell, HBOS and FirstGroup.