Our team
An experienced, committed team.
Our team of industry experts are committed to aligning stakeholder interests by delivering innovative, independent advice and services to our clients.
We have specialists in both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension schemes, asset allocation and manager research in liquid and illiquid asset classes, both from qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
We also have significant expertise in scheme governance, risk management and oversight as well as climate change and ESG specialisation.
Dean Wetton
Managing Director
Dean Wetton, BComm (Hons), MBA, CFA, Managing Director, founded Dean Wetton Advisory in 2009.
Craig Tilsley
Head of Quantitative Research
Craig Tilsley, B.Compt, CFA, is Head of Quantitative Research at DWA and has over 20 years industry experience.
Damian Mitcham
Head of Client Service
Damian Mitcham, BA, is Head of Client Services at DWA providing expert asset liability modelling, economic scenario generators and reporting solutions.
Peter Osthwaite
Head of DC Trustee Solutions & ESG Research
Peter Osthwaite, MSc, IMD, manages the day-to-day running of clients, providing investment updates, regulatory support and dealing with ad hoc queries.
Caroline Janaway
Project Manager
Caroline Janaway provides internal project support and analysis to DWA.
Our advisory board
Paul Boerboom
Member of the DWA Investment Advice Oversight Committee
Paul is Founder and Managing Director of Avida International, a practitioner and specialist on best practice pension management; Avida clients include Shell, Unilever, Metro, Ahold, Q8, Randstad, ABN AMRO pension funds and The Pensions Trust. Paul was educated at Harvard and Wharton; formerly with Shell.
Martyn Dorey
FIA — risk, governance and investment consultancy services at DWA
He is Vice President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce, and chairs their Finance, Tax and Legal sub-committee. He has won national awards for innovation, including the Society of Actuaries award for ‘Paper of the Year’ for his work on modelling dependencies. Martyn is also an industry partner to the University of Leicester Actuarial Faculty.
Neil Warrender
Managing Partner of LPR Consulting LLP
Neil provides compliance, accounting, company secretarial and general business support to mainly small financial services firms and acts as Compliance Officer to a number of them. Formerly Director of Compliance and Accounts at RAB Capital plc, he project managed more than 20 fund launches. In 2006 Neil was chosen by AIMA to be one of 15 experts advising the European Commission on hedge funds. He trained as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young and has served on a supervision team with the FSA.
Stephan Breban
BSc — member of the Advisory Board at DWA
Stephan was Head of Private Equity Research at Russell Investments. Before that he founded City Capital Partners and was a consultant at Watson Wyatt, where he built the alternatives research capability and headed the private equity research team.