Seán Lynch Email & Phone Number

Dublin

• Working (since Nov 2018) with the President for Europe (representing >$800m in revenues across 16 countries) to accelerate portfolio momentum across highest-growth solutions and segments, including by leveraging cross-border efficiencies and forging new commercial synergies.• Worked (from Jul 2017 to Nov 2018) with the Global Leader for the Individual Wealth business (representing $90b in assets under management across 6 countries) to implement organic growth acceleration plans (by strengthening product and distribution capabilities) and to progress inorganic strategies for new market-entry (by developing partnership and acquisition opportunities).• Worked (from Oct 2015 to Jul 2017) with the Regional Leader for the Consumer business across Europe-Pacific (representing $240m in commissions across 13 countries) to optimise B2B2C value propositions, including by leveraging Mercer’s acquisition of the Darwin employee benefits platform into country technology roadmaps.

Dublin

• Worked with 3 Ireland CEOs to help country business leaders define and execute on profitable growth strategies, with a particular focus on how disruptive innovation can build sustainable competitive advantage.• Responsible for driving the annual planning process and for steering specific growth initiatives, including: progressing partnership and acquisition opportunities; opening-up intermediary distribution channels; and pivoting capabilities into faster-growing adjacencies.• Specific achievements included: track record of 5-years margin expansion and accelerating growth; and successful diversification from advisory services into delegated solutions, and from corporate clients into consumers, across an increased range of investment and insurance market segments.

• Responsible for a portfolio of new solutions development projects, including managing the innovation pipeline and technology roadmap to ensure strategic alignment and optimal leverage across a matrix of markets and businesses.• Specific achievements included: the creation of a first-in-market corporate wrap platform which attracted $5b in assets within 5 years; the successful rebuild of a transactional website supporting c70 thousand investors; the design of a digital experience for an online benefits marketplace to engage client employees in taking more holistic control across their health and wealth needs; and the design of a workplace wellness proposition to extend risk brokerage activity into healthcare analytics.

Dublin

• Responsible for leading a team of 15 analysts through a high-priority turnaround effort, including by redesigning processes and roles to improve workflow efficacy and achieve remediation targets.• Responsible for leading a business unit of 20 consultants through the implementation of a new organisational structure, including by developing performance objectives and optimising resource utilisation.

Dublin

• Responsible for advising a portfolio of key corporate clients across their human capital needs, including by coordinating the activities of actuaries, administrators, accountants and investment managers for delivering service solutions.• Specific achievements included assisting corporates in successfully managing the employee benefit dimension of restructuring projects (during mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and wind downs, and green-field site setups).

Dublin

• Responsible for producing statutory valuations of corporate clients pension arrangements, by providing technical analyses to support consulting around funding, accounting and solvency issues, including for asset-liability modelling and risk management journey-planning.• Specific achievements included secondment onto major government research project into the financing of long-term care, with responsibility for analysing international experience to construct the cost projection model.

Mba, (Economics, Operations, Finance, Strategy And Marketing)

Ba, (Biochemistry, Physiology, Pathology And Therapeutics)