- Executive Director – Business Development, IMPAX Asset Management
- Independent Board Director, National Employment Saving Trust (NEST)
In 2026, Stuart joined IMPAX Asset Management, a c.£30bn specialist asset manager focussed on the transition to a more sustainable economy. Stuart sits on the Management Committee reporting to the CEO and Founder and is responsible for global partnerships, strategy and M&A.
The UK Pension Minister appointed Stuart in late 2024 as an independent Board Director of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), the UK Government’s workplace MasterTrust pension scheme, with £54 billion of assets and 13.5 million members. Stuart currently sits on NEST’s main Board and is a member of the Nominations & Remuneration and Customer committees. Stuart also has main Board investment oversight responsibility.
Since 2010, Stuart worked for almost 15 years at HSBC in various roles: as a Board Director and member of the Management Committee of HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd, the c. 3,000 person, c.USD750bn asset manager of the HSBC Group; as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of the HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd the c.400 person, c.USD200bn UK subsidiary; Managing Director responsible for the global oversight of sovereign wealth funds, public pension plans, central banks, development banks and supranationals. Previous roles included: Global Head of Strategy & Chief of Staff; CEO of International Markets; and Head of UK Institutional. Stuart was also the accountable executive for the firm’s global Diversity Equity & Inclusion programme, including 16 workstreams with over 300 volunteers across 14 countries. Stuart was the executive sponsor for the Mental Health & Wellness workstream.
Prior to that he worked at Insight Investment for 5 years and started his investment management career at Threadneedle Asset Management in 1998.
In addition to his executive roles, Stuart has also spent 10 years (from 2014-2024) as a non-executive Trustee Director of the c.£30 billion HSBC Bank Pension Trust (UK) Ltd (HSBC UK Bank’s DB & DC Pension schemes), including being Chair of the Trust’s Investment Committee for 4 years.
Stuart graduated with a BSc honours degree in Chemistry and European Studies (German) from the University of Sussex and the University of Freiburg. He holds: an MBA from London Business School (1997-1999); the CFA Investment Management Certificate; the CFA Sustainable Investing Certificate; and the PMI Award in Pension Trusteeship. Stuart is currently on the: Advisory Board of Asset Owner Diversity Charter (representing USD2 trillion of pension scheme assets); the Board & Advisory Council of the UK’s Inclusion in Finance. Stuart was also a member of the UK Investment Association’s Advisory Council and their Trade & Investment sub-committee.
Stuart is married with two daughters. Stuart is also a keen advocate of removing the stigma of metal health in the workplace and society and along with his four brothers raised over £50,000 for mental health charities competing in Marathon des Sables in 2016 (6 marathons in 6 days in the Sahara Desert) which was captured in a charity documentary ‘Brothers in the Sand’, featured on Amazon Prime.