Waqas Samad Joins Oliver Wyman As Senior Advisor To Support Its Financial Infrastructure, Technology And Services Platform

October 14, London – Oliver Wyman, the global management consultancy, announced today the appointment of Waqas Samad as Senior Advisor. Waqas joins as part of the Financial Infrastructure, Technology and Services (FITS) platform, which serves market infrastructure, data, information, technology, and software providers across the financial services ecosystem.

Waqas Samad, Senior Advisor, Oliver Wyman, said: “Oliver Wyman’s FITS platform helps firms to create growth and value in financial services by focusing on developing strategies to address the challenges of the ever-changing market landscape. I look forward to working with the team to help firms develop and achieve their goals.”

Hiten Patel, Global Head of FITS, Oliver Wyman, added: “With FITS firms now accounting for 35% of the aggregate financial services industry value, this is an exciting time to join Oliver Wyman as we build our expertise and capabilities in this space. Waqas’s experience in numerous industry roles will be particularly relevant to various team members and projects, contributing to our clients’ strategy objectives.”

Waqas has held a number of C-Suite and leadership positions, most recently as CEO of the FTSE Russell indices business and as an Executive Committee member at LSE Group. Over the previous two decades, Waqas has held roles at Deutsche Bank and Barclays, where he helped develop a range of risk analytics, and transformed research-oriented functions to form new commercial business lines.

Find out more about Waqas here.

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