OMC Partners was set up by ex-Deutsche Bank director Ian Prince. As a user of outsourcing consultancy throughout his career, he has experienced the benefits and the pitfalls.
“I know that the large consultancy team approach adopted by traditional outsourcing consultancy firms is both unnecessarily expensive and counter productive,” he says.
“The internal resources and expertise of the organisation have to own the initiative.”
“They need guidance and assurance from a consultancy with experts who understand the process intimately, can inform them on potential benefits, costs, project structure, next steps, and risks, and who can provide experienced project staff to support their own internal team.”
Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton joined OMC Partners as Chairman in December 2009. He brings a wealth of both legal practice and law
firm management experience to the team. Prior to this he was the senior partner
of Macfarlanes from 1999 to May 2008 a firm he first joined in 1976 and where
he specialised in company and commercial law, particularly in the areas of
corporate finance, securities law and practice, takeover bids and mergers and
acquisitions.
His experience encompassed acting for corporations and investment banks in all forms of M&A transactions as well as in initial and secondary public securities offerings. Much of his practice involved representing international companies.
He has also written and lectured on legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions.Ian Prince
Ian Prince, partner at OMC Partners, has over 24 years' experience in the Investment Banking sector, the majority of that time involving IT offshoring and outsourcing. Before founding OMC Partners, Ian was a director of IT at Deutsche Bank where he established a 70-person offshore management centre responsible for monitoring and maintaining 5,000 servers and 2,000 databases in London and New York.
During the past 2 years with OMC Partners, Ian has worked with a number of clients in the Legal Services sector, including CMS Cameron McKenna in their ground-breaking £10M, 5-year outsourcing agreement to offshore selected IT services to one of India’s leading outsource vendors.
He has over 14 years experience in outsourcing to companies including IBM, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and CSC.
Ian’s career has taken him around the globe with a variety of roles in London, New York and Tokyo, which has helped him formulate his vision for OMC Partners. His background gives him particular strengths in negotiating major outsourcing contracts and delivering the outsourced service, whilst his investment banking background provides significant technology management expertise in a complex, client focused and rapidly changing business environment.
Jack Diggle
Jack Diggle is a partner at OMC Partners and works with law firms and investment banks managing sourcing programmes across business lines and support practices. Some of his current work with law firms is leading the innovation of legal service delivery.
Prior to OMC Partners, he worked for 10 years in the investment banking sector, specialising in outsourcing and offshoring. He worked for Goldman Sachs and with ABN AMRO where he was instrumental in the development of their middle and front office offshoring programmes.
Jack has worked across Europe and Asia. He has developed both captive and third party offshoring solutions for clients. His particular strength lies in delivering pragmatic offshoring solutions in complex operating environments. A key focus is on building strong working relationships between on and offshore entities.
David Ellis
David Ellis, a partner with OMC Partners, brings a great breadth and depth
of experience as both a provider and a consultant - a classic ‘poacher
turned gamekeeper’. David, who has a law degree, is a qualified accountant (FCMA),
and holds an MBA from ESC-EAP, Paris’ leading Grande Ecole, is a former
associate Partner at PwC and IBM. David’s most recent clients include Baker
& McKenzie, National Australia Group Bank, Goodyear Dunlop, WL Gore,
Technicolor, Centrica, Scottish Power, Allied Domecq, and Johnson & Johnson.
David has broad-ranging experience of all typical sourcing structures
(in-house, outsource, JV’s and hybrids). He has also worked across a number
of functions, including Finance, HR, Procurement and Knowledge Management
spanning the full lifecycle of sourcing projects. He has strong
relationships with many of the major outsourcing players, as well as several
niche companies, and has a deep understanding of the different qualities of
many delivery locations in Europe, the US, Asia and the Far East.
Andrew Hart
Andrew Hart has over 15 years experience working in IT in the legal sector. Previously he was head of IT strategy at CMS Cameron McKenna. In his time there he advised in and oversaw the introduction of many strategically important systems and technologies within the firm including Knowledge Management, CRM, Case Management, Finance systems and a complete technology refresh. He was part of the senior management team that guided CMS Cameron McKenna through the recent offshore outsourcing project that was ground-breaking for the legal industry.
Andrew’s background is in application development. Since then he has had leadership positions in service firms providing consultancy, training and technical support to a wide variety of industry sectors. He combines extensive project and business experience with a deeply grounded understanding of technology.
Richard Sawtell
Richard Sawtell has over 15 years experience utilising a process/systems people approach to transforming legal processes, and has helped organisations reap the benefits of Offshore Legal Process Outsourcing since 2001, when he outsourced key components of his legal services business in partnership with a major Indian provider.
An experienced senior manager, Richard has held four MD roles in subsidiaries of major UK PLC companies, and served on two further boards in a non-exec capacity. A "Poacher Turned Gamekeeper", he brings experience and expertise in supplier selection and tenders, contract negotiation, process design and transition, and relationship management from the dual perspectives of a client, and as a BPO services provider.
Richard has a well established network of relationships with BPO providers in India, South Africa, and near shore destinations such as Malta. His strengths include expertise in creating clear business cases for offshoring projects and applying discipline and structure to migrations to ensure the projected benefits are realised. Recent projects include the turnaround of a non performing finance and accounting BPO relationship for a listed financial services provider.
Mohsin Siddique
Mohsin Siddique is a highly proficient Project Manager with deep finance transformation experience. Prior to working with OMC, Mohsin has been a consultant specialising in offshoring, ERP implementations and establishing Shared Service Centres.
Over the past 2-years Mohsin has helped First Data establish an 80-person Shared Service Centre in Poland covering transactional accounting for a number of European countries. Before this, he worked at Deloitte Consulting covering a range of projects around finance including offshoring and outsourcing. Having worked across a number of industries including Financial Services, Energy, Oil & Gas, Media/ Telecommunications Mohsin has developed all round consulting skills within project management, process transformation and improvement. Some of the major organisations Mohsin has worked for include GlaxoSmithkline, BP, UBS, Abu Dhabi National Oil Corporation, UBS, Colt, BBC and Barclays across Europe and the Middle East.