Davies, the leading specialist professional services and technology company serving insurance and highly regulated markets, today announced the appointment of Matt Button as Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer.In his new role, effective 1 January 2025, Matt will assume day-to-day leadership of Davies’ three go-to-market business units, including across operations, sales, and marketing. Reporting to Group CEO, Dan Saulter, Matt will be responsible for driving organic growth and service on a global basis. Matt joined Davies in 2015, and has served as Group M&A Director, and latterly as CEO of Davies North America, now Davies’ largest business unit, following its launch in 2019. Over the past ten years Davies has consistently delivered high single-digit annual organic growth, coupled with a strategic M&A program that has been the business increase revenues more than 25-fold since 2015. In addition, Davies has invested heavily in research & development, innovation & artificial intelligence (“AI”), platform integration & underlying business systems, colleague development, and client service.Alongside the Deputy Group CEO announcement, Davies unveiled its Vision-2030 strategy that will see the firm focus investment across four central pillars: Technology & AI; Organic growth & cross-selling; Geographic & solution expansion; and Operational Excellence. The firm aims to grow annual global revenues to £2.5-3.0 billion by the end of 2030.Dan Saulter, Group CEO, said: “I am looking forward to working closely with Matt as he returns to a global role, having successfully grown our North America operations from zero to nearly $500m annual revenues in the past five years. We are proud of our ten years of uninterrupted growth, and we are looking forward to executing on our Vision-2030 goals.” Commenting on his appointment, Matt added: “I am very much looking forward to working with Dan and the rest of the team to deliver our global expansion plans and continuing to support our efforts to drive organic growth and great outcomes for clients.”Earlier in 2024 Davies announced the appointment of Amber Wilkinson to the role of Group CFO, a role she takes up in January 2025.Following Matt’s promotion to Deputy Group CEO, the firm will run a short internal process in Q1 2025 to appoint a new CEO for Davies North America. In the interim, senior Davies executive, Dhara Patel, steps up to interim CEO of Davies North America until the role is filled. Dhara joined Davies in 2023 following Davies’ acquisition of ACM, USIS, PGCS and ICA and was promoted to President and Deputy CEO of Davies North America in July 2024. Companies In This Post
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