Biography
Jamie leads the Celent team globally across banking, insurance, wealth management and capital markets technology, and is a Partner within Oliver Wyman.
Since joining Celent in 2011 and drawing from his experience of a career spanning over 28 years in both the management consulting and insurance industry (with AXA, AIG and the Zurich Insurance Group), he has helped clients formulate their fintech technology strategy across the industry globally in ~20 countries. Engagements have included supporting major technology investment decisions, performing due diligence on vendor selection and for mergers & acquisitions, architectural option choices, and technology roadmap development.
Alongside leading the Celent team, Jamie maintains an active client engagement and research role, with a primary interest in the technology opportunities and challenges facing the European life and pensions market, contributing to the debate around innovation, digital transformation, BPO strategies, the impact of regulation, and the insurtech / fintech arena. Jamie was also one the architects of Celent’s innovation framework and continues to be a major contributor to shaping Celent’s global research agenda.
Jamie has an MBA from the University of Southampton and a first class BSc Honours degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Portsmouth. He has also attended Driving Strategic Innovation at the IMD was selected for Telemaque (a global leadership development programme run by AXA University in partnership with INSEAD), and is currently studying for his doctorate in business administration researching innovation. Jamie is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Information Technology Practitioner, and Member of the British Computer Society.
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