Our Team
Meet Our Specialist Actuaries, Case Managers and Support Team
Richard Nobbs
Owner and Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
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Matthew Weaver
Nicola Hooper-Greenhill
Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
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Oscar Brown
Gary Tansley
Joanna Rowicki
Glenn Andrews
Richard Weisz
Ivan Laws
Anna Swan
Case Manager
Paula Nobbs
Accounts and Office Administrator
Rachel Betts
Accounts and Office Administrator
Interested in Joining Us?
At Excalibur, we're proud of the team we've built and are always keen to hear from people who share our values and passion for helping clients navigate complex pensions on divorce cases.
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Richard Nobbs
Richard is the owner and director of Excalibur Actuaries Limited. He is an actuary advising trustees and employers on a wide variety of pensions issues. He also provides expert evidence in cases of divorce and on loss of pension rights on termination of employment.
Having trained with a major employee benefit consulting firm, he was responsible for leading a team of 20 actuaries and consultants. Richard then joined a leading accountancy firm advising on mergers, acquisitions and accounting before setting up his own businesses, including a leading specialist reporting service to calculate compensation payments to the victims of personal pension mis-selling.
Richard is also a director and owner of RMN Actuarial Consulting Ltd and Focus Pensions Ltd, providing actuarial and consultancy services to pension schemes and sponsoring employers. With a reputation for innovation and jargon free advice, he has worked with several clients for many years as their trusted adviser.
He is married with two daughters, and in his spare time, Richard is an expert skier, an enthusiastic, if less accomplished, golfer, and a photographer.
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Matthew Weaver
Matt is an actuarial director at Excalibur Actuaries Limited. He qualified as an actuary in 2001.
Matt worked as a consulting actuary for 29 years with a major employee benefits consultancy. He trained and worked for 11 years as part of the actuarial team advising UK Pension Schemes and their sponsors. In 2006, he transferred to a team advising the Headquarters of multinational companies on multinational pension and benefit issues. He developed a particular expertise in pensions accounting and was one the internal experts on IAS19 accounting. He has acted as a local accounting actuary in several locations, including those in the Nordics and the Middle East. He also led a team responsible for developing in-house accounting consolidation software for multi-national companies. After deciding on a change in career direction, he joined Excalibur in 2024.
Matt is married with twin boys, and two dogs. In his spare time, he enjoys treading the boards with local amateur dramatics societies
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Nicola Hooper-Greenhill
Nicola is an actuary, having worked for 18 years as a consulting actuary, looking after sponsors, trustees and members of defined benefit pension schemes.
Nicola has a collaborative approach, bringing people together in multi-disciplinary teams, and really listening to clients in order to offer high-quality, personal and pragmatic advice – always seeking right solutions for their particular needs. Nicola qualified as an actuary in 2007 and became a Scheme Actuary, before managing a team at the Pension Protection Fund.
Alongside her work with Excalibur Actuaries, Nicola tutors young people with dyslexia, a condition close to her heart. Nicola has two boys, so is enjoying football, cricket and trying to win at Monopoly (the key is Vine Street, and she says there can be no arguments on this!).
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Oscar Brown
Oscar is an actuary, having worked for over 20 years as a consulting actuary, working with a wide range of sponsors and trustees.
With an interest in the financial markets and IT, Oscar is working on applications to help individuals with their investments
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Gary Tansley
Gary is an actuary, having worked for over 30 years as a consulting actuary, advising a wide range of private and public sector schemes and their sponsors.
Gary was trained at a leading actuarial consultancy, initially working on a range of clients from both the insurance and pensions markets. He later specialised in pensions, advising trustees on such issues as funding and actuarial factors, and advising employers on pension accounting issues as well as many mergers and acquisitions. On his way to becoming an Associate, he led a team of about 18 qualified and student actuaries and co-ordinated the provision of services to clients from a variety of specialist teams.
After 22 years, Gary moved to a much smaller consultancy, which he helped to grow by preparing research materials and press releases. That was followed by joining the Government Actuary’s Department, where he gained an insight into the workings of public sector pensions.
Before joining Excalibur Actuaries, Gary held two temporary positions at Aviva plc, during which he took a central role in analysing the impact on the Group’s finances of the initial £1.75 billion buy-in transaction between Aviva’s UK life insurance business with the trustees of Aviva’s main staff pension scheme.
Gary is divorced and, in his spare time, is an enthusiastic but rarely successful golfer and a keen quizzer.
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Joanna Rowicki
Joanna is an Associate Actuary at Excalibur Actuaries Limited. She has worked in pensions-on-divorce for over ten years, preparing expert witness reports relating to pension sharing orders and offsetting
Earlier in her career, Joanna worked at a small actuarial consultancy, gaining experience in pension loss calculations for employment tribunal cases. This varied background has given her a well-rounded perspective and a strong technical foundation.
Joanna enjoys taking on new challenges and learning new things. Lately, she’s been learning Mandarin through language exchange, which she finds both fun and rewarding. She also loves going for long walks with her dog, Kangi.
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Glenn Andrews
Glenn is an independent consultant actuary engaged by Excalibur Actuaries and has worked in the life and pensions industry for over 30 years.
Outside of work Glenn is an avid golfer and a determined (if not very successful) Spanish learner.
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Richard Weisz
Richard is a consulting actuary providing an extensive range of pensions advisory and project implementation services for over 25 years.
Richard trained and worked for 20 years at one of the “Big 4” consultancies, delivering commercially-focused strategic advice on the full range of issues and challenges facing pension schemes. He was also very involved in bespoke financial and demographic modelling of pension arrangements.
Following a short break, he has been working for several years as part of the team at Excalibur on a part-time basis. Whilst enjoying his work and ensuring that his grey cells remain exercised, there is a never a dull moment with his extended family and friends.
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Ivan laws
Ivan is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute with over 35 years' experience in occupational pensions. His career has included senior pensions management, governance and technical roles in both the UK and overseas, including more than ten years with the Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions and Benefits Fund.
Ivan specialises in defined benefit pensions, and complex benefit structures. As Case Manager at Excalibur, he supports the actuarial team by obtaining and analysing pension scheme information, researching benefit entitlements and helping ensure divorce cases progress efficiently and accurately.