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Keep me informedOxbow Partners has delivery at its core. Our ambition is always to help clients deliver their strategies, not only to provide robust ideas or blueprints. Our agile-inspired approach, Agile Strategy™, breaks down the artificial barriers between design and delivery and ensures that momentum builds through each part of the strategic deliver lifecycle.
Our transformation practice is built on our strong strategy, operations and technology capabilities. Our expertise allows us to help C-suite teams understand their strategic delivery options and priorities whilst our sector specialism and deep expertise in operating models and technology allow us to work closely with internal teams and support delivery.
Our engagements are often continuous cycles of strategic decision-making followed by waves of practical delivery across the business.
We play a variety of roles in transformations including C-suite advisors, ‘intelligent PMO’, workstream delivery and quality assurance.
Our clients value our ability to span the gap between the executive agenda and practical delivery.
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 identify profitable and sustainable opportunities to grow both in their existing markets and more broadly
We help executive teams find their edge in an increasingly digital market, and translate their strategic intent into business-aligned digital strategies and roadmaps
We help executive teams identify how M&A can accelerate their strategy and build plausible approaches to executing on it
We help executive teams translate their strategic intent into business-aligned operations strategies and roadmaps
We help executive teams translate their strategic intent into business-aligned technology and data strategies and roadmaps
We help executive teams understand the ESG landscape and identify how to seize new opportunities
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 those new sources of business.
A leading specialty (re)insurer wanted to define their approach to follow-only. We worked with the CEO and executive team to assess and prioritise business model options and develop a robust proposal for their board.
Tesco Bank originally entered the UK retail insurance market as a broker using a panel of carriers. Oxbow Partners supported the business through this multi-year transformation. You can read a case study here.
Our client was a European insurer. We worked with the CEO and his team to define their strategic options, agree on their priorities and to develop their longer-term roadmap.
Our client was a top-tier reinsurer. We worked with the executive team to develop an operating model that enabled them to scale their InsurTech partnerships globally across the business.
Our client is a leading Irish retail insurer. The incoming CEO asked Oxbow Partners to support with a strategy refresh. We have subsequently supported the client with topics ranging from ESG to claims strategy and ‘break-out’ strategy moves.
Magellan is our insurance technology navigator. Magellan contains detailed information on over 4,000 technology vendors targeting the global (re)insurance market. Magellan is designed to help business and technology professionals find the right short-list of companies to help with their specific technology requirements. We offer both a self-service subscription and a ‘Curated Search’ service delivered by our dedicated team of experts.
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Our UK Motor Market Model™ is a bottom-up forecast of the premium, combined ratio and operating profit in the market. Our model is updated regularly and provides Boards and management teams objective insight into the market allowing them to make better decisions about how to win.
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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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Greg Brown, Partner
Greg leads Oxbow Partners’ Operations and Technology practices, supporting a range of clients including reinsurers, London Market specialty players and UK personal lines. His past experience includes technology consulting at Accenture, digital transformation at a boutique firm and strategy at Monitise, a leading UK fintech. He has a first class degree in Engineering and Computer Science from Oxford University.
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