Amy Johnson

Executive Director

Amy Johnson has been appointed as the JOHCMI Country Head and Managing Director of European Development. Amy has been part of the Pendal Group since 2014 and was initially engaged to embed a true risk culture into the business. Amy was promoted to the Head of Risk & Compliance, Pendal Australia in 2017 and facilitated in transforming the Risk & Compliance team into a business partner and globalised the Risk & Compliance function.

Previous to her time with Pendal Group, Amy was part of PwC’s graduate programme and later approached to join PwC’s risk consulting team from audit, she was appointed to engagements to establish foreign banks in Australia, progressing to managing a breadth of risk framework compliance and governance reviews for clients, primarily in financial services. Amy advised clients on strategy, governance processes, risk appetite, profiling and change matters.

Amy is also an executive director for the Company, reporting directly to the JOHCM CEO for UK, Europe and Asia, Amy’s principal functions include building out the Irish operations and the ongoing management and conduct of the Irish business. In addition, Amy is to oversee the expansion of the JOHCM Group’s distribution activities into the EU27. Amy works in close consultative fashion with JOHCM Group functional heads including sales, fund managers, performance measurement,