Hargreaves Lansdown appoints Danny Meehan as Director of Workplace

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), is pleased to announce the appointment of Danny Meehan, who will join the business in August as Director of Workplace.

He will report to Doug Abbott, Chief Product Officer. Meehan succeeds Stephen Lefley, who is retiring after more than nine years with HL.

HL Workplace provides employer pension, investment and savings services tailored for employers. It currently supports over 200,000 members across more than 750 active schemes and is trusted with £10.5bn assets under administration*.

Meehan will take responsibility for the division’s commercial performance, growth strategy, and the continued development of its product and proposition for employers and their employees.

In December 2025, HL announced the beginning of a multi-million pound programme of investment to strengthen its Workplace offering. Developments include a new employer-facing administration platform developed in partnership with Keystone by Smart. Rolling out this year, it will support multiple payroll-deducted savings products, including ISAs, and further development of its default investment proposition to meet forthcoming regulatory requirements.

Meehan joins from MUFG Pension & Market Services, where, as Growth Leader, he was responsible for the UK commercial growth agenda of one of the market’s largest pensions administration businesses. Prior to this, he was Proposition & Development Director at workplace fintech Cushon, where he was part of the leadership team that scaled the business from around £12m to more than £2bn in assets under management across pensions and ISAs. His earlier career includes senior consulting and commercial leadership roles at Capita, including Head of Large Client DC Consulting, and a non-executive directorship at investment platform TILLIT.

“Danny is a highly experienced leader in the workplace savings market, with a track record of building high-growth businesses which will be invaluable to HL. Workplace is an exciting area for the company, and Danny’s appointment reflects our ambition to help more people in Britain build their wealth, with confidence, through their employer.

I also want to thank Stephen for his significant contribution to HL and to our Workplace business over many years. We wish him a long and happy retirement.”

Doug Abbott, Chief Product Officer at HL

“Joining Hargreaves Lansdown is a proud moment for me. Employers and their advisers are being asked to deliver more for their people than ever before, so I am excited about working for a business that has the product range to support clients in achieving their financial goals across their lifetime.

My ambition is to make HL Workplace the standard for what workplace savings can do – helping members save, invest, and build real financial resilience across their whole working lives and into retirement. There is so much to build on here, and I can’t wait to get started.”

Danny Meehan, incoming Director of Workplace at HL

Meehan’s arrival follows a string of recent senior appointments at HL, including Charles Thompson as Chief Technology Officer and Michael Finnegan as Chief Transformation Officer, who will support HL’s CEO, Matt Benchener, as the business accelerates delivery of its strategy.