Ben Hampton

CEO Wealth Wizards 🧙‍♂️& CEO Responsible Life 🏠

Wealth Wizards

Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Chief Executive Officer

Wealth Wizards

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

Chief Product Officer

Wealth Wizards

Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

• Responsible for product strategy, roadmap and delivery for codified advice and guidance experiences • Transformed approach to user design to drive reimagination of financial advice • Accountable for product marketing function and user sign up for Workplace Financial wellbeing offer myeva.

Head of Digital Retirement Advice

Aberdeen

Oct 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 5 months)

• Accountable for direction, oversight, design, delivery, take to market and end to end execution/running of new hybrid digital advice service at retirement • Responsible for overall P&L of Digital Retirement Advice service line, business plans, budgets, trading, growth and operational performance • Leadership responsibilities cover acquisition, conversion, digital customer experience design, automation and codification of advice stances, customer facing advice delivery and servicing • Programme Sponsor of multi-million pound project deliveries under a cross functional agile methodology blending the transition from a pure development to a parallel run and development environment • Providing leadership vision, direction and engagement of c

Head of Customer Growth, Digital Advice

abrdn

Jan 2019 - Oct 2019 (10 months)

Responsible for the Take To Market strategy, approach and delivery for an exciting new development in financial advice.

Client Relationship Manager & Head of Telephony Relationships

abrdn

Aug 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 6 months)

• Hybrid role with direct employer client management responsibilities and member of Workplace Relationships leadership team in Distribution • Built strong external relationships across employers, trustees, employee benefits consultants and corporate advisers to understand client needs and deliver solutions • Co-created and managed strategic client plans covering member engagement, communication programmes, pensions, scheme governance, technology integration and flexible benefits to support delivery of reward and financial well-being objectives • Client relationship manager for panel of large employers covering c. £0.7bn AUA, c. £100m of Regular Premiums and over 60k members across their pension scheme and flexible benefits needs • Qualified

Executive Assistant, CEO UK & Europe

abrdn

Feb 2014 - Aug 2016 (2 years 7 months)

• Direct report of the Chief Executive Officer (UK & Europe) & PLC Board Executive Director • Responsible for running the CEO office, managing regular Executive Leadership meetings, displaying executive credibility and presence to engage, influence and collaborate with CEO’s team • Ensuring the CEO is fully briefed and aware of issues across the Business • Lead & drive strategic projects, setting direction and proactively initiating work on behalf of the UK & Europe Business, partnering with Executives and their teams to deliver through virtual leadership • Responsible for drafting papers and presentations, for Board level and Senior Executive audiences, on behalf of CEO • Act as representative of CEO on key projects within the business.

UK Strategy Business Partner

abrdn

Dec 2012 - Feb 2014 (1 year 3 months)

• Delivered Adviser Channel annual business strategy and plan as part of the UK multi-channel strategy and planning process. This involved using strong stakeholder / relationship management and influencing skills to build consensus. • Worked closely with the Adviser & Investment Propositions department to build relevant and successful propositions for adviser market. • Led small virtual teams to analyse specific strategic initiatives and questions in response to changing market opportunities. • Direct line management responsibility for the planning business partner.

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President

Faculty of Actuaries Student Society

Sep 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 1 month)

The Faculty of Actuaries Student Society (FASS) is a volunteer led society providing networking and development opportunities for the Edinburgh Actuarial community. The society has over 300 members and has the following aims: 1. Educational Events - to provide skills and information to support professional development 2. Social Events - to provide networking opportunities 3. Feedback issues to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries on behalf of students 4. Promote the Actuarial Profession to University students As President I acted as the figure head of the society giving speeches at our annual dinner and welcome events. My day to day responsibilities covered leading the FASS executive, alongside creating and delivering our annual strate

Marketing Actuary

abrdn

Aug 2011 - Dec 2012 (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for investigating and analysing the competitor and market environment to help set the market based pricing positioning and strategy during the RDR project. As a key member of the core RDR project team I produced and delivered the pricing training for SL's UK Salesforce. As part of this role I supported Sales Account Managers in external meetings and presentations with Financial Advisers, articulating our price position and the technical impacts of RDR. Platforms Paper - CP12/12: Responsible for producing SL response to the Platforms Paper and subsequent discussions with the regulator. Following this I initiated SL's CP12/12 project acting as the Business lead, my responsibilities included: • Managing day to day programme pr

Commercial Actuary / Actuarial Trainee

abrdn

Sep 2009 - Aug 2011 (2 years)

Key member of the commercial pricing team responsible for undertaking on-going profitability modelling, risk analysis and review of new and existing products. Performed variety of commercial work including: • Supporting product development initiatives that resulted in revisions to pricing/new pricing approaches • Providing justification for business cases and Risk Assessment & Profitability Reports • Strategic Deal Pricing - Responsible for assessing commercial benefits of offering special terms for strategic partners • Annuity Postcode Pricing - Member of project team responsible for the profitability and risk analysis for implementation of pricing changes • Pricing Review Project - Performed detailed analysis of the pricing and charging

Actuarial Trainee

abrdn

Sep 2007 - Sep 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Member of Experience Analysis team responsible for persistency, mortality and longevity analysis. Undertook analyses to support annual best estimate and prudent basis setting.

Actuarial Internship

Standard Life UK

Jun 2006 - Sep 2006 (4 months)

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