Gary Chamberlin was educated at Shene Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read maths. He has worked in operational research and actuarial consultancy, and edited the collected papers of the celebrated actuary Frank Redington. His interest in artificial intelligence led him in 1985 to help found the Aries project for expert systems in insurance, by collaborating with a group of leading companies in the industry.

The chief fruit of this work today is the Aries Pensions System, now widely used across the UK by insurers, consultants and administrators. Gary remains responsible for overall project management and the future direction of the work, as well as the extensive pension calculations which the system offers.

Ian is a science graduate of Monash and Loughborough Universities and has worked for the pensions industry since 1988. He has been closely involved from the start with development of the Aries Pensions System and also several computer-based pensions training systems. While a Senior Research Fellow at City University, he led production of the Aries Pension Transfer Demonstrator as part of the Integrated Cooperative Workspace (ICW) Project.

He is particularly responsible for the text content of the Aries systems and website, in addition to sales and marketing. In trying to keep a finger on the pulse of the industry, he encourages feedback from all quarters.

Iain is a philosophy graduate of Lancaster University. He worked in various capacities in manufacturing, retail and logistics until the late '80s, when sight of a Sinclair Spectrum triggered a new and compelling interest. He quickly mastered the Spectrum and moved on to persuading other types of computers to do his bidding, taking two City & Guilds courses in programming and writing applications for small businesses and to solve any interesting problems that caught his attention.

In 1997 he joined the Aries team and after investigating the internal workings of the software, began the substantial task of converting Aries to exploit the capabilities of modern Windows computers. He continues to expand and enhance the Aries system to cater for the changing requirements of the pensions industry.

Rachel studied law at St. Anne's College, Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1981. She worked for several years in the pensions departments of Nabarro Nathanson and then of Ellison Westhorpe, before taking extended maternity leave to look after her four children.

During this period Rachel took a master's degree in history at Leicester University. Returning to work in a general trust based solicitors' practice, she joined the Aries Team in 2001 as a Pensions Research Assistant.

Steve Rideout is a graduate of Loughborough University where he read Geography with Economics. He came to Aries from the Benefits Agency, where he plied his trade on the battlefields of the counter section.

A keen aviator, Steve has made good progress navigating towards completion of the industry’s APMI examinations. Steve co-ordinates the Aries Trustee & Administrator Training System, occasionally writes for this website and assists with maintaining the Aries Pensions System.