Profile: Chris Venables

Chris leads a team in the PwC HR Services business that specialises in providing actuarial advice to infrastructure funds, regulated utilities and contractors. He has a detailed working knowledge of the regulatory environment governing pensions laid down by a range of economic regulators. Within this context he has experience advising companies in relation to the pensions aspects of:

• Efficient pension scheme funding and risk management
• Strategy for business plan submissions for the price control review process
• Engagement with economic regulators in relation to pensions
• Pension benefit re-design and implementation
• Outsourcing of services for the operation and maintenance of monopoly assets
• Sales and acquisitions of monopoly assets
• Working within the framework of the provisions of privatisation

Chris has provided advice in a range of sectors including water, electricity, gas, telecoms and rail.