Curzon Consulting

Principal and subject matter expert in healthcare, insurance, healthtech, insurtech, mental health and employee benefits

Principal & Engagement Lead

Vita-Dental Partners

Non Executive Director

Banat Consultants

• Corporate venture builder
• Building business models, developing pitch decks, and driving fundraising efforts for healthcare start-ups
• Implementing OKRs, KPIs and bringing business acumen to day-to-day operations
• Managing investor relationships and owning internal financial processes
• Advising founders on growth, go-to-market strategies and entering new markets

Fractional COO | CFO | General Manager | Advisor

Syndi Health

• Commercial strategy targeting insurers, employers and employee benefits providers UK & US
• Developing pitch decks, pitching to VCs & accelerators
• Successfully pitched to Plug&Play

Commercial Strategy & Advisor to CEO

Bupa

• Developed the UK private medical insurance growth strategy; presented to Board and received sign-off for implementation; currently supporting the roll-out of Consumer, SME and human-centred design growth initiatives
• Led the commercial strategy execution to double profits within 5 years in Bupa’s international health and travel insurance business 
• Owned the yearly strategy review and planning cycle, including marshalling senior support to acquire and integrate Oasis Dental (£835m acquisition) in 2016
• Steered the development of the UK dental strategy, including evaluating organic and inorganic growth opportunities that once implemented, surpassed 10% growth
• Facilitated the strategy development and alignment workshops for Cromwell Hospital
• Scanned market, competitor, technology and consumer trends to identify healthcare growth opportunities

Head of Strategy Bupa UK & Global

Unum UK

Unum is the UK’s leading financial protection insurer, selling Group Income Protection (disability insurance), Sick Pay Insurance, Critical Illness cover, Life Insurance and Dental plans through the workplace.

• Developed and implemented the UK growth strategy for the world’s leading disability insurance provider (US Fortune 300); revenue rose from -4% growth in 2012 to +11% growth by end 2015, while improving the total return-on-equity by 9.5%
• Transformed the UK business from a niche group insurer into a diversified employee benefits provider, with targeted value propositions and partnerships with HR teams
• Led a six-person team and managed a £1m budget to prioritise product portfolio diversification opportunities, resulting in the £32m acquisition of NDP from Capita
• Deployed human-centred design principles to market-test 12 new customer propositions, resulting in a doubling of the Unum product portfolio and two new profitable distribution channels

Head of Strategy & Market Development

Cognosis

• Advised FMCG / Consumer brands such as Japan Tobacco, Russian Standard Vodka, PZ Cussons, Pernod-Ricard and William Grant on growth and strategy execution.

Senior Engagement Manager

Monitor Group

Growth & Marketing Strategy Development (FMCG and Emerging Markets)
• Led the opportunity-sizing and prioritisation of socio-economic and consumer trends in Eastern Europe, to drive 5% market sales growth at British American Tobacco
• Created and validated Monitor intellectual capital to help FMCG multinationals successfully prioritise, enter and win in emerging markets
• Created a compelling future vision of a Fortune 500 client’s sales force, including new responsibilities and capabilities; defined the strategic & operational implications
• Compiled the business case for a successful $10 million funding proposal to implement the Saudi Arabian National Industrial Strategy

Senior Strategy Consultant

CIBC

Managed strategic projects for President's Choice Financial (CIBC's on-line bank) and FirstCaribbean Bank

Senior Manager (Contractor)

Parisella, Vincelli Associates Consulting Group, (PVA Consulting Group)

• Process improvement and business transformation
• Operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Clients included leading players in the telecoms, transportation, automobile and oil & gas industries

Management Consultant

I help healthcare and insurance organisations deliver more value, faster - by identifying growth opportunities, developing the capabilities to capture them and launching new propositions to realise additional value growth, sooner.

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