Sarasota, U.S – May 6 2025 – Davies, the leading specialist professional services and technology business serving insurance and highly regulated markets, today announced the appointment of seasoned industry veteran, Daniele Pedrazzoli as a senior partner leading its North American insurance consulting team.
With over 30 years’ international leadership experience working for prominent (re)insurance, brokers and MGA companies and service providers across the entire value chain, Daniele’s expertise spans designing and implementing complex growth, efficiency and technology transformation initiatives resulting in stronger profitable growth models for his clients.
In his new role, Daniele will bring together Davies’ service offering within the consulting space in the U.S. and Canada, leading Davies’ proposition for clients encompassing transformation, digitization, AI and Gen AI technology from design through to execution and management services solutions.
The news comes as the business continues to grow its footprint across North America and follows the implementation of a new senior operating structure for its consulting division earlier this year, under Consulting & Technology CEO, Pino Vallejo.
Commenting on the new appointment, Pino said: “It’s a pleasure to welcome Daniele to our specialist insurance consulting team. Daniele’s global experience is unrivalled, and I am looking forward to working with him to grow our services for our insurer clients in the transformation space.”
Daniele Pedrazzoli, Senior Partner, Davies said: “It’s an incredibly exciting time to be joining Davies. It’s a rapidly growing business committed to investing in AI and GenAI technology. We have a strong team, with exceptional industry expertise to guide our clients to transform, adapt and scale in this fast paced and ever-changing world.”
Earlier this year, Davies’ Group CEO, Dan Saulter launched the firm’s Vision2030 strategy with the aim of quadrupling annual sales to £3bn by committing to investing in four central pillars: technology and artificial intelligence, organic growth and cross-selling, geographic and solution expansion, and operational excellence.
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About Davies
Davies delivers specialist professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, forensic accounting, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management. In February 2023 Davies announced it had simplified its operations and aligned the business across three operating units: Davies Global Solutions, Davies UK & Ireland, and Davies U.S. Davies has an 8,500 strong team of professionals operating across 20+ countries, including the UK & the U.S., with headquarters in the City of London. Davies’ investors are BC Partners, HGGC, AIMCo (acting on behalf of certain of its clients), and Davies’ employees following BC Partners majority investment in March 2021, HGGC’s investment in January 2017 and AIMCo’s investment in January 2019. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 25-fold, invested heavily in research & development, innovation & artificial intelligence (“AI”), platform integration & underlying business systems, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,700 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients. In the past year Davies has added more than 200 new accounts to its organic platform. In addition, Davies has successfully broadened and deepened its operations and digital capabilities via targeted acquisitions. Since the start of 2017 Davies has acquired: Cynergie, CMSL, Ambant, ServiceTick, TLSS, R&Q’s insurance services business, Ember, Direct Group’s claims businesses, Veriphy, USA Risk Group, TMS, GBB, Banwells, Frontier, FWD, ASC, Thornton Group, Keoghs, Codebase8, Citadel & Cedar Consulting, ContactParners, TriPlus, Johnson Claim Service, Vehicle Replacement Group, BMTS, Wakely Actuarial, Northshore International Insurance Services, DMS, NPA, Littleton, Grovelands, IAS, Asta, IRS, Sionic, Merlinos, BVS, Worksmart, ProAdjust, Johns Eastern, ClaimPilot, MVP Group, Afirm, Ortac Underwriting Agency’s (“Ortac”) insurance management services portfolio, American Claims Management, Preferred Governmental Claims Services, USIS, ICA, MDD, Shoreside Law, Minuteman Adjusters, Bespoke Training Solutions, Budget Claims Services Inc., (dba Barker Claim Services) and Premier Claims Management. More information is available at www.davies-group.com.
About BC Partners
BC Partners is a leading investment firm with over €40 billion in assets under management across private equity, private debt, and real estate strategies. Established in 1986, BC Partners has played an active role for over three decades in developing the European buy-out market. Today BC Partners integrated transatlantic investment teams work from offices in Europe and North America and are aligned across our four core sectors: Healthcare, TMT, Business Services & Industrials, and Consumer. Since its foundation, BC Partners has completed over 126 private equity investments in companies with a total enterprise value of over €160 billion and is currently investing its eleventh private equity buyout fund. For more information, please visit www.bcpartners.com.
About HGGC
HGGC is a leading middle-market private equity firm with $4.3 billion in cumulative capital commitments. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., HGGC is distinguished by its Advantaged Investing approach that enables the firm to source and acquire scalable businesses through partnerships with management teams, founders and sponsors who reinvest alongside HGGC, creating a strong alignment of interests. Over its history, HGGC has completed more than 130 platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of nearly $22 billion. More information, including a complete list of current and former portfolio companies is available at www.hggc.com.
About Alberta Investment Management Corporation (“AIMCo”)
AIMCo is one of Canada’s largest and most diversified institutional investment managers with more than C$115 billion of assets under management. AIMCo was established on January 1, 2008, with a mandate to provide superior long-term investment results for its clients. AIMCo operates at arms-length from the Government of Alberta and invests globally on behalf of 31 pension, endowment and government funds in the Province of Alberta. AIMCo’s head office is located in Edmonton, Alberta, with additional offices located in Toronto, London, and Luxembourg. AIMCo’s Private Equity team comprises a dedicated group of experienced investment professionals and manages a private equity allocation of approximately C$6.0 billion. More information is available at www.aimco.alberta.ca.
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