Ryan is a Senior Consultant within Mercer’s investments business, which he joined in 2013. Ryan qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2017 and has since built a wealth of experience advising a wide variety of institutional investors – from family-run businesses with legacy DB pension schemes, to large FTSE100 listed blue chip names.

Ryan’s particular areas of expertise include investment strategy and journey planning. He has supported a number of clients in designing de-risking strategies, including using creative trigger-based approaches, helping to move his clients closer to delivering on their long-term objectives. Ryan has also advised on several manager selection exercises over recent years, building deep knowledge across a plethora of managers across asset classes including multi-asset credit, infrastructure, liability hedging, investment grade credit and working capital.

Over the last few years Ryan has performed the lead investment role on several successful insurer buy-in transactions and played a pivotal role in one of the largest full-scheme buy-in transactions in the industry in 2025. Ryan is recognised as a key thought-leader, developing a creative new initiative within Mercer in 2025 aimed at generating new investment ideas through out-of-the-box thinking and debate across a varied panel of subject matter experts.