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HALSEYKEETCH.COM
Growing Global Insurance Broker,
Global Chief Risk & Compliance Of昀椀cer
The Situation
In this case, our client was a wellcapitalised and ambitious global specialist
insurance brokerage with backing from
a major private equity 昀椀rm, world-class
leadership, and an acute focus on instilling
the right culture across the business.
The 昀椀rm had grown exponentially since
establishment in the last decade, despite
the dif昀椀culties posed by the Covid-19
pandemic. The risk and compliance
functions had reached a point where they
needed modernisation and upgrading
under a new leader in order to fully align
them to the highly dynamic commercial
aspects of the business.
Our Process
We were mandated by this new client,
whose Global General Counsel had
been referred to us by one of the 昀椀rm’s
INEDs, to help her to appoint a new
permanent Chief Risk and Compliance
Of昀椀cer. The new hire would lead and
develop a strong team, hold the SMF4
and SMF16 designations on behalf of the
昀椀rm and would provide highly insightful
advice in these domains to the 昀椀rm’s
ExCo and board, in order to help the
昀椀rm achieve ambitious goals.
The Outcome
Given very speci昀椀c preferences on the part of the Global GC and the need for the
new hire to make a running start in this role, identifying suitable candidates required
a detailed and tenacious talent mapping effort and extensive networking in the
insurance broking risk and compliance talent space. Additionally, specialist broking
has been a busy sector of the 昀椀nancial services industry, with private equity interest
leading to high levels of competition for leaders of all stripes. Eventually, we identi昀椀ed
precisely the right person who would bring the requisite skills, experience and
character to the role, and for whom a serious career move to a dynamic organisation
made perfect sense after an eleven-year tenure with his former employer.
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