Leedham joined Davies in 2018, following the acquisition of Ember Group, the place he had been CEO. Since then, he has performed a key function in rising Davies’s consulting enterprise, which gives buyer expertise, transformation, analytics, and coaching options to international purchasers.
Following his promotion as group chief transformation officer, Leedham will oversee the transformation and M&A integration groups globally, together with within the US, the place Davies has expanded its operations lately.
Davies group CEO Dan Saulter congratulated Leedham on his promotion, describing him as “instrumental” within the profitable development of the corporate’s consulting arm.
“I’m additionally thrilled that after once more we’ve been in a position to promote internally; investing in our folks and giving them alternatives for profession improvement is central to our success,” Saulter added.
Leedham likewise expressed pleasure about his new function, emphasising how Davies is dedicated to investing in know-how to assist purchasers “climate these extra turbulent occasions” within the international insurance coverage market.
Elevated funding
Over the previous 5 years, Davies has invested over 4 occasions its preliminary funding in innovation and digital transformation. This consists of the acquisition of Sionic in 2021, which elevated the agency’s international know-how transformation, digitalisation, worldwide regulatory compliance, and danger administration choices to purchasers within the insurance coverage, banking, and extremely regulated sectors.
Following a interval of natural and M&A development, Davies lately restructured its operations into three core enterprise items: Davies International Options, Davies UK & Eire, and Davies US.
“Our success lately is linked partly to our capacity to remain agile, to adapt our construction, and to supply new options to our purchasers internationally,” Saulter stated of the agency’s new construction. “As we embark on our subsequent section of worldwide development and funding, it’s important that we place our enterprise items and management so we will greatest serve our 1,500-plus purchasers throughout the globe.”
