Meet our team

Tony Gusmao

Tony has almost 30 years’ experience leading similar businesses in South Africa, the U.K. and more recently Brazil.

Tony spent 20 years with Alexander Forbes, overseeing the Institutional Employee Benefits business in South Africa, comprising amongst others, the Consulting, Actuarial, Administration & Master Trust equivalent offerings to large and medium size local and multinational clients.   He later moved to the U.K. and led the transformation of the Alexander Forbes Consultants & Actuaries business until its sale to JLT in 2012.

In 2013 Tony joined Lockton and relocated to lead their business in Brazil, growing this from a mid-sized broker into one of the country’s top 10 broker and consultancy firms, offering the full suite of Employee Benefit and Risk Management Services to local and multinational clients.

Outside of work, Tony has been based in Portugal more recently and is married with two children.  He is an avid reader, podcast listener and football fan

Nick Jones

Nick is Chief Financial Officer of Broadstone.  Prior to this, he was CFO Attenda, CFO Achilles Group, Global Head of Finance for Reuters plc where he also led the integration of Thomson and Reuters.  Nick has held senior financial roles in technology and media businesses in the UK, the US and Europe including Virgin Media, Phillips Electronics and RR Donnelley.  Nick is also a Non-Executive Director of YouGov plc.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance.

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Nigel Jones

Nigel is currently the Head of Consulting & Actuarial at Broadstone and focuses on delivery of the Firm’s strategic goals and growing market share.  Nigel is a qualified actuary with over 20 years’ experience in the pensions industry and is a scheme actuary to a number of schemes ranging from under £10 million to over £1 billion in asset size.  He also specialises in liability management and pension scheme de-risking.

Nigel joined Mitchell Consulting, now Broadstone, in 2009, having previously held senior roles with, KPMG, Mercer and Aon Consulting.

Nigel sits on a number of committees for the Actuarial Profession and has been the President of the North West Actuarial Society since 2010 and is also a School Governor.

Paul McGuckin

Paul is Head of Employee Benefits and is responsible for setting and delivering Broadstone’s strategic objective of being one of the UK’s leading employee benefits and pension consultancies.

Paul was previously CEO of CS Financial Solutions (CSFS) which was acquired by Broadstone in January 2019. At CSFS Paul was responsible for the strategic direction and the day to day running of its pensions, benefits and wealth management consultancy services, both in the UK and internationally via the Assurex Global network.

His career in financial services spans over 20 years, and began with Standard Life before holding a number of senior positions with Griffiths & Armour and Charles Stanley, before heading up the senior management team that completed the buyout of CSFS from Charles Stanley.

Paul’s key skills in strategic planning, change management and implementing a ‘shared vison’ will help Broadstone meet its ambitious objectives.

Paul is from the red half of Merseyside and is based out of Broadstone’s Liverpool office.

Paul Bowden FIA

Paul, a qualified actuary, was one of the owners of BBS when the business was acquired by the Broadstone Group. He is now responsible for administration services of the Group. He has worked in the industry for over 20 years, previously as a Senior Pensions Consultant at Mercer. Paul has overseen the growth in our administration department to the thriving team it is today. Paul is committed to maintaining our demanding service standards, believing that “through employing the best staff available and using high-tech workflow techniques to monitor every member request, we can differentiate ourselves from our competitors in terms of both service and value for money”. Paul enjoys all sports (although various injuries have put paid to his playing ambitions), following Bristol Rovers, Gloucestershire CCC and spending most of his holiday time supporting the England cricket team on their winter tours.

Kenneth McClintock

Ken leads the Investment Consulting team which recently transferred from PwC. The team assists private individuals, family offices, trusts, charities and other institutional investors. Ken has over twenty years of experience in advising this wide range of investors. He was one of the key individuals that established the Investment Consulting team at PwC in 2009.

He leads on many of the most significant assignments for UK and international clients in relation to their approach to setting and implementing successful investment strategies, counterparty risk management, and ongoing investment performance analysis.

Prior to PwC, he worked in the Investment practices at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.

He is CFP Chartered MCSI. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with BA (Hons) in History & English.

Angela McGough

Angela is the Head of Human Resources providing strategic and operational Human Resource advice and guidance to the Broadstone Group of Companies.

Angela has worked in HR since 1998 and has experience in a number of sectors including recruitment and energy, prior to joining BDO Investment Management (now Broadstone) in 2007.

Angela has extensive experience across the full HR spectrum with specific expertise in TUPE and M&A (relating to HR).

Angela is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and has a BA (Hons) from Royal Holloway, University of London and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Kingston University.