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Keep me informedIt is a good time to be a reinsurer. For the first time in years, reinsurers are talking about a hard market and capacity shortages.
But a rising tide does not, in this case, lift all boats equally.
In the short term, underwriting conditions are challenging due to multiple forms of inflation and because exposures such as cyber and the impact of climate change are hard to quantify.
Longer term, operating models and technology stacks are under strain as companies become larger and more complex. Executives must combine the art of underwriting with the graft of organisational and technology change to win.
Our experienced team helps executives find their edge by understanding the future of the industry, identifying solutions and delivering on their priorities.
We help management teams understand their options and trade-offs and make robust decisions.
We use our industry expertise to build detailed, bespoke operating models and processes aligned to the specific features of your strategy.
We recognise that technology is a fundamental shaper and enabler of modern strategy and support with architecture design and vendor selection.
We help organisations transform by connecting strategy to delivery, ensuring that delivery both aligns to strategy and shapes it.
We help executive teams understand and prioritise opportunities and threats, find their “edge” and communicate compellingly to their stakeholders.
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We help executive teams build robust, scalable businesses and operating models, covering organisation design, key processes and governance.
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We help business executives understand how technology can boost their productivity, and technology executives build and deliver technology strategies and roadmaps aligned to strategic imperatives as well as helping them select vendors.
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We help executive teams execute on their priorities by supporting them through a continuous cycle of strategic decision-making and detailed design and delivery.
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We help investors and corporates with commercial, operational and technology due diligence, deal preparation and execution, and post merger integration.
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A leading reinsurer wanted to reinvent their underwriting organisation to eliminate pain points and harness future opportunities in digital. We supported the client through a multi-year transformation programme that addressed both soft and hard aspects of their operating model design.
A leading reinsurer identified that their post-bind operations had developed organically leading to challenges with scalability. We supported the client to develop a new, deliberate global operating model. This led to improvements in both efficiency and quality, which are the foundations to support future scale.
A large reinsurer wanted to develop a global innovation and digital strategy. We worked with the CEO and board members to develop a strategy which is currently being delivered
A reinsurance client had a robust footprint in their home region but limited traction in other markets. We supported the CEO to identify where they could develop ‘edge’ and how to access new sources of business.
A large reinsurer had developed a proprietary technology platform but found the technology team had become detached from the underwriting team as the business had scaled. We supported the business to build a better technology operating model, which was subsequently implemented, connecting IT with the business.
A leading reinsurer wanted to rationalise the information used in the business and build standardised reporting driven by ‘golden sources’. We helped the client identify metrics to run the business, defined how to source the right data and developed the governance required to deliver the insight.
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Chris Sandilands ACII, Partner
Chris leads Oxbow Partners’ Growth and M&A practices, focusing on reinsurance and UK and Ireland personal lines. His past experience includes underwriting at Munich Re, management consulting at Oliver Wyman and launching a start-up. He is a fluent German speaker and has a first class degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University.
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Miqdaad Versi, Partner and ESG Lead
Miqdaad leads Oxbow Partners’ ESG and reinsurance taskforces. Examples of his recent experience in ESG includes working with a global FS player on their end-to-end climate risk programme, leading an ESG benchmarking exercise of Bermudan (re)insurers and leading an ESG strategy for a European insurer, and supporting a European insurer develop an ESG strategy from scratch. Miqdaad started his career as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, worked in strategy at RBS, led a transformation of a small business and worked independently before joining Oxbow Partners. Miqdaad has a first class degree in Mathematics from Oxford University
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George Hanks, Principal
George is a Principal at Oxbow Partners, leading projects across the strategy, operations and technology practices at Oxbow Partners, and frequently projects where these three practices overlap. George's recent experience includes developing an end-to-end TOM for a leading global reinsurer, creating a digital strategy for a corporate insurer and defining the technology strategy for a reinsurer.
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