Mr Dreyer will be taking over from Lucas Vermeulen who moving back to the Netherlands.

He is joining Ortec Finance from Insight Investment, where he had held the role of client director.

Prior to this, Mr Dreyer held investment consulting roles at Quantum Advisory, PwC and Aon Hewitt and has worked in the pensions industry since 1996.

Fred Heemskerk, head of global business at Ortec Finance, said: “Deon has over two decades of industry experience and will bring a wealth of expertise to the role.

“He will be hands-on working with our clients on their investment strategy, growing the UK team and enhancing the Ortec offering to ensure these industry leading tools are available to as many pensions schemes, asset managers and asset owners as possible.

“We welcome him to the team at this exciting time for the UK business and Ortec Finance globally.”

Mr Dreyer said: “The chance to work with the team at Ortec Finance was an exciting opportunity to use my financial markets experience and combine that with their industry leading technology.

“I have long been an advocate of empowering pension schemes to question their investment decision making and to use this knowledge to improve investment outcomes.

"I look forward to working with our clients as we help them further embrace technology to better manage their investment decisions and strategy.”