Curriculum vitae

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.

Jack Diggle

Jack Diggle is a partner at OMC Partners and works with law firms 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, and at PwC Consulting. 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 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, DWF, Addleshaw Goddard, Rouse International, National Australia Group Bank, Goodyear Dunlop, WL Gore, Technicolor, Centrica, Scottish Power, Allied Domecq, and Johnson & Johnson.

David has broad-ranging experience of different sourcing structures (in-house, outsource, JV's and hybrids), of a wide variety of functions, including Legal Service Delivery, Finance, HR, Procurement and Knowledge Management, and of the full lifecycle of sourcing projects.

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

Matthew Peacock

Matt Peacock is a Principal Consultant with OMC Partners. Matt has nine years experience working in a Top 15 law firm, practising as a dispute resolution and regulatory solicitor, predominantly advising Blue Chip clients in the Financial Services, Retail, Energy and Manufacturing sectors. More recently, Matt completed an MBA with distinction, focussing upon professional services strategy, finance and operations.

Matt's particular interest lies in the 'unbundling' of legal services and the provision by law firms of innovative sourcing solutions. Matt also has experience in areas such as: organisational behaviour and influencing law firm culture; business development and marketing; industry market segmentation and competitive analysis.

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.

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.

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.

Mohsin has helped 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.

David Armstrong

Experienced Banking and Finance professional with over 20 years Financial Services gained at National Australia Group Europe, Clydesdale Bank, and Bank of Scotland, working at Board and Executive management level focused on a broad range of shared services, off-shoring and strategic business reviews leading to significantbusiness transformation programme implementation. Deep experience in Financial Services reporting and regulatory requirements as well as industry and consulting experience including outsourcing. Fully qualified UK accountant (ACMA) with prior industry experience.