Dawid Konotey-Ahulu: Founding Partner, Redington
Konotey-Ahulu, who trained as a barrister, was inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat to leave Merrill Lynch, where he led its pension advisory group, along with colleague Robert Gardner to set up Redington in 2006. The company now employs about 40 people advising clients (including Royal Mail, insurer Aviva, technology group Telent and electronics group Philips) with pension scheme liabilities totalling more than £100bn. Konotey-Ahulu encourages trustees to understand how movements in inflation, interest rates and longevity can make or break their schemes. Redington's profits quadrupled to more than £1m last year on quintupled turnover of £2.4m - impressive growth in adverse market conditions.
