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Our team

Steve Vaid

Chief Executive

Steve Vaid is the Money Advice Trust’s Chief Executive Officer and joined the charity in early 2024. Steve has extensive leadership experience in a wide range of commercial and third sector organisations, and joined the Money Advice Trust after five years as Director of Client Services at Australia Mutual Provident (AMP). He previously served as Deputy CEO and Acting CEO of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, following roles at Royal National Institute of Blind People and Voluntary Service Overseas.

Steve has a particular depth of experience of harnessing digital technologies to transform service delivery and impact, crucial in supporting growth and innovation in debt advice delivery.

Mark Day

Director of Corporate Services

Mark Day joined the Trust in September 2023 and is responsible for leading our IT, HR, Business Support, Compliance and Risk and Finance departments. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has worked in a range of finance roles, including as part of the leadership team of a national property and investment c

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What does the energy consumer of the future look like? How will they engage in the market of tomorrow? Will technological changes in the market really lead to consumers becoming active, empowered agents at the heart of the system? These are questions of real significance for us and for the wider energy sector. That is why we made the 'future consumer’ the theme of our event held 5 July 2017.

Event highlights

We wanted to examine how the landscape for domestic energy consumers is evolving in light of innovations and developments such as smart meters, time of use tariffs, battery storage, half hourly settlements, big data and new ways of purchasing energy.

We made the event as interactive as possible to give a platform for all our stakeholders to feedback on the themes covered in our Future Insights papers, and used a mix of panel and table discussions supported by live polls.

Opening

Our non-executive director, Christine Farnish, chaired the event, with our CEO, Dermot Nolan, opening with a keynote on The energy market and the consumer: now and in the fut

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Farnish & Thoresen join Fairer Finance's Consumer Advisory Board

Otto Thoresen, the chairman of NEST, and Christine Farnish, the former chair of Consumer Focus, have joined Fairer Finance’s Consumer Advisory Board.

The Consumer Advisory Board’s role is to scrutinise the business of Fairer Finance, ensuring that the company only engages in work that is to the clear benefit of financial services consumers.

Fairer Finance was founded by consumer campaigner James Daley in March 2014, and rates banks and insurers based on what their customers think of them, how good they are at handling complaints and how transparent they are.

It funds its research and consumer campaigns by advising banks and insurers on how to be more transparent – including rewriting complex terms and conditions and helping them to improve their complaints processes.

James Daley, founder and managing director of Fairer Finance, said: “Otto and Christine are two of the most respected figures in the financial services industry – so we’re incredibly fortunate to have them be a part of Fairer Finance.

“We set up