The Consulting Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Insurance Consultants and Leaders of 2025. This year’s awardees represent a wide spectrum of expertise across strategy, risk, technology, and operations, reflecting the diverse challenges insurers face today. From financial reporting and compliance to AI-driven underwriting, cloud-based platforms, and modern claims systems, these leaders help insurers adapt while maintaining stability in a complex sector. Many have steered large-scale transformations at global firms, while others bring specialized knowledge in auditing, solvency, and internal controls.
Their influence is evident in the way insurers are rethinking core operations. These leaders have advanced compliance with evolving standards such as IFRS 17 and Solvency II, led organizational and portfolio restructuring, and uncovered risks that could compromise stability. Their contributions show how consultants both address immediate challenges and position insurers to manage long-term shifts redefining the industry.
Among this year’s awardees, Alissa Ristic, Managing Director at KPMG, is recognized for leading the firm’s Digital Insurance practice and Global Claims solutions, advising insurers in the U.S. and UK on digital transformation, multichannel distribution, and operational excellence. Chris Raimondo, Partner at EY and Americas Insurance Consulting Leader, is noted for driving strategy and execution across business, technology, AI and data, risk and actuarial, and workforce consulting, with a focus on modernizing core operations for property and casualty and life and annuity carriers. Matt Edwards, Senior Director at Slalom, is known for helping establish the firm’s Global Insurance Industry practice, where he guides clients through strategic transformation initiatives including AI-enabled underwriting and claims, cloud migration, and the redesign of data infrastructure to improve decision-making.
Selected for their leadership in guiding insurers through transformation, regulation, and growth, this year’s honorees reflect the expertise that underpins one of the most complex and highly regulated sectors of the economy. Please join us in recognizing The Top 25 Insurance Consultants and Leaders of 2025.
1. Alissa Ristic
Firm: KPMG
Title: Managing Director
Alissa Ristic is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Insurance Operations practice with almost 20 years of consulting and insurance industry experience across the value chain, including claims, underwriting, and broking. She also has an extensive background serving in senior leadership roles within insurtechs.
Ristic has worked in both the U.S. and UK insurance markets driving digital transformation, enhancing carrier speed to market across multichannel distribution models, and customer and operational excellence. She currently leads KPMG’s Digital Insurance practice and Global claims solutions, where her focus is providing insurance clients with more personalized, convenient, and cost-effective services by using digital technologies to make improvements to process, products, and services.
Ristic holds a master’s degree in risk management and insurance, is a Chartered Insurance Broker, and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. She was recognized as a Top 25 Insurance Consultant and Leader in 2023 and 2024 by The Consulting Report as well as a Top 50 Women Leader of Boston by Women We Admire. She is also a member of Chief and provides mentorship to female talent developing their careers.
2. Chris Raimondo
Firm: EY
Title: Partner
Chris Raimondo is a Partner in the Ernst & Young LLP Insurance sector and currently serves as the Americas Insurance Consulting Leader. In his role, he drives the strategy and go-to-market execution for the consulting business, and leads the comprehensive portfolio of solutions EY provides to its insurance clients, consisting of business, technology, AI and data, risk and actuarial, and workforce consulting. He has more than 20 years of global experience in the insurance industry, with a focus on the modernization of core business operations through the implementation of technology. Chris has a strong track record of building high-performing, diverse teams and delivering complex transformation programs at major domestic and international property and casualty and life and annuity insurance carriers.
Prior to this role, Chris led the Technology practice for the EY Insurance sector. He was a founding member of the EY Guidewire Alliance practice and has also served in leadership roles in EY’s finance and property and casualty insurance businesses.
Chris is a CPA with a bachelor’s degree in finance and entrepreneurship from the Miami University of Ohio and a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul University.
3. Heidi Deringer
Firm: Bain & Company
Title: Partner
Heidi Deringer is a Partner in Bain & Company’s Americas Financial Services practice and a leader in the firm’s Performance Improvement and Mergers & Acquisitions practices. She has more than 20 years of consulting experience, working with financial services clients to deliver actionable and sustainable results across property and casualty insurance, life and annuities, asset management, payments, credit bureaus, and related service providers.
4. Dave Vorbrich
Firm: KPMG UK
Title: Partner - Insurance Technology
Dave Vorbrich is a Partner – Insurance Technology at KPMG UK, a global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services. KPMG operates in 143 countries and territories with more than 273,000 partners and employees working in member firms worldwide.
In his role, Vorbrich advises insurance clients on technology strategy and transformation, with a focus on digital innovation, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. He also collaborates with senior leadership to strengthen KPMG’s global insurance technology capabilities.
Previously, Vorbrich was chief information officer at Phoenix Group and partner – global insurance technology at Deloitte. Earlier in his career, he worked with Electronic Book Technologies as a software quality tester. Vorbrich earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tufts University and a master’s degree in computer science from Brown University.
5. Robert Howe
Firm: Marsh
Title: Managing Director
Robert Howe is a Managing Director of Marsh’s Insurer Consulting Group in North America and a 35-plus-year veteran of Marsh. Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan, is a top insurance broker and risk advisor.
6. Cindy De Armond
Firm: Accenture
Title: Managing Director
Cindy De Armond is a Managing Director in the Accenture Insurance Industry Group. Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services.
7. Laura Scarpa
Firm: Deloitte UK
Title: Partner
Laura Scarpa is a Partner at Deloitte UK. Deloitte UK is a leading professional services firm operating in audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory across multiple sectors, including insurance and reinsurance.
8. Fritz Nauck
Firm: McKinsey & Company
Title: Senior Partner
Fritz Nauck is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and a longtime member of the Financial Services Practice in the Americas. McKinsey & Company helps clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people. He leads the firm’s insurance work in North America and co-leads the global Insurance Practice.
9. Martin Spit
Firm: EY-Parthenon
Title: Principal
Martin Spit is Principal, Insurance, at EY-Parthenon, the global strategy consulting arm of Ernst & Young LLP. EY-Parthenon serves clients across industries with a focus on growth, transformation, and transaction strategy, operating in more than 150 countries. Leveraging the scale and reach of EY, the firm combines deep industry expertise with strategic and operational capabilities to deliver tailored solutions.
In his current role, Spit advises insurance clients on complex strategic change, bridging organic growth initiatives with inorganic transaction strategies. His work includes acquisitions, divestitures, organizational structuring, and operational integration and separation, with a focus on aligning strategic vision to execution in dynamic market environments.
Previously, Spit was a managing director at Accenture and a principal at The Boston Consulting Group, following earlier experience as a manager with Ernst & Young Consulting. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master’s degree in computer science from Twente University in the Netherlands.
10. Damon Thompson
Firm: Softtek
Title: Partner
Damon Thompson is a Partner at Softtek, a global software engineering partner that helps companies accelerate growth through technology. A sales leader with more than 25 years of experience, Thompson collaborates with executives and multi-level teams to define and deliver solutions for complex technology initiatives. He is recognized for his consultative communication style, analytical problem-solving skills, and commitment to building lasting client relationships that endure across multiple stages of their careers.
11. Gaston Messineo
Firm: EY-Parthenon
Title: Partner, Americas Financial Services Leader
Gaston Messineo is a Partner and Americas Financial Services Leader at EY-Parthenon. EY-Parthenon, the global strategy consulting arm of Ernst & Young LLP, delivers strategic and operational solutions across industries, helping clients accelerate growth, drive transformation, and reshape portfolios. Messineo has deep expertise in the insurance sector, advising clients on growth and value creation, portfolio restructuring, and operational transformation.
In his current role, Messineo leads financial services strategy initiatives across the Americas, guiding organizations through complex change to improve competitiveness and long-term performance. He focuses on aligning strategic objectives with actionable plans, helping clients navigate evolving market dynamics and regulatory environments.
Previously, Messineo was head of strategy and execution, North America, at Willis Towers Watson, and a senior manager in strategy, M&A, and transformation for insurance at Kearney. Earlier in his career, he served as chief of staff to the CFO and a member of the board of directors at Tenaris. Messineo holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina.
12. Thomas Luick
Firm: Protiviti
Title: Managing Director
Thomas Luick is a Managing Director at Protiviti. Protiviti is a global business consulting firm providing expertise in technology, business process, analytics, risk, compliance, transactions, and internal audit. Luick is a people-focused leader with more than 20 years of experience delivering IT and management consulting projects across industries, with a primary focus on financial services.
13. Ross Baker
Firm: Mercer
Title: Senior Partner, North American Insurance Vertical Leader
Ross Baker is a Senior Partner, North American Insurance Vertical Leader, and Global Client Manager at Mercer. Mercer delivers human resources and strategy consulting services across industries including insurance, consumer products, healthcare, financial services, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and manufacturing.
14. Matt Edwards
Firm: Slalom
Title: Senior Director
Matt Edwards is Senior Director at Slalom, where he helped establish and expand the firm’s Global Insurance Industry practice. He partners with clients to define and deliver strategic transformation and modernization initiatives, including designing modern insurance products, proving the business value of AI in underwriting and claims, creating integrated technology ecosystems, and transforming data infrastructure for improved business decision-making.
Beyond client engagements, Edwards contributes to industry thought leadership through articles on reinsurance challenges, cloud migration, predictive modeling in specialty insurance, and digital transformation. He has also participated in panel discussions on emerging trends and works closely with Slalom’s partner network to co-develop industry-focused solutions that accelerate value for clients.
Prior to joining Slalom, Edwards spent over a decade at Safeco and Liberty Mutual in roles spanning claims, service, FP&A, P&C operations, finance, and product management. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Indiana University Bloomington.
15. Mohammad Khan
Firm: PwC UK
Title: Partner
Mohammad Khan is a Partner in PwC's Insurance and Actuarial practice with nearly 20 years of experience in general insurance. PwC is a global professional services network with more than 370,000 people in 149 countries. The firm provides audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals, and consulting services, supporting organizations across industries. Khan works with clients across the sector, advising on a broad range of business challenges and opportunities.
16. Shane Cassidy
Firm: Capgemini
Title: Executive Vice President
Shane Cassidy, Executive Vice President and Head of Capgemini’s Global Insurance Business Unit, has been a catalyst for innovation in the insurance industry for over two decades. As a founding member of Capgemini’s market-leading Insurance Business, he helped launch one of the first cloud-based core insurance platforms and has led some of the sector’s most ambitious transformation programs. Shane is known for solving complex challenges, elevating customer experiences, and building high-performing global teams—now over 20,000 strong. His leadership has guided insurers from legacy systems to agile, data-driven platforms powered by AI and cloud technologies.
A respected industry voice and frequent speaker, Shane has built a globally recognized brand and continues to shape the future of insurance. His philosophy is simple yet powerful:
“Transformation isn’t just about technology—it’s about reimagining what’s possible for our customers, our people, and the industry as a whole.” In a sector often slow to evolve, Shane proves that meaningful change is not only achievable—it’s essential.
17. Dana Wilson
Firm: Grant Thornton
Title: Managing Partner
Dana Wilson is Managing Partner and an Audit Services Partner in Grant Thornton LLP’s Insurance practice, leading the firm’s Hartford, Connecticut market. Grant Thornton’s Insurance Industry practice provides audit and tax services to a range of insurance organizations and alternative risk mechanisms, including captives, governmental and intergovernmental pools, high-risk statewide and federal pre-existing condition insurance pools, self-insured pools, and state departments of insurance, as well as other nontraditional insurance entities.
18. Scott Parker
Firm: FTI Consulting
Title: Managing Director
Scott Parker is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting, a global advisory firm that helps organizations navigate crises, manage risk, and drive transformation. With more than two decades of consulting experience, Parker specializes in managing general agent (MGA) and third-party administrator (TPA) auditing, internal auditing, reinsurance treaty review, litigation support, and corporate investigations.
19. Mick Moloney
Firm: Oliver Wyman
Title: Partner
Mick Moloney is a Partner at Oliver Wyman, based in New York, and serves as the global head of the firm’s Insurance and Asset Management practice. Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan, is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations, and accelerate performance.
20. Heather Gagnon
Firm: Crowe
Title: Managing Director
Heather Gagnon is a Managing Director in the consulting group at Crowe, where she leads the firm’s insurance consulting practice. She specializes in internal process, risk, and control assessments and has more than 18 years of experience in the insurance industry. Crowe LLP is a public accounting and consulting firm that uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit, tax and consulting services to public and private entities.
21. Mark Allitt
Firm: Teneo
Title: Senior Managing Director
Mark Allitt is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Financial Advisory business, based in Bermuda, specializing in insurance solutions for the global insurance, reinsurance, and captive industries. Teneo is a CEO advisory firm which focuses on financial advisory, management consulting, people advisory, risk advisory, and strategy and communications. He is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner.
22. Hema Prem Rainaa
Firm: Infosys
Title: Vice President Insurance Europe
Dr. Hema Prem Rainaa is Vice President for Insurance Europe at Infosys, based in London, where she leads the P&L for the region across General Insurance, the London & Lloyd’s Market, Life & Pensions, and Broking. Infosys is an Indian multinational technology company specializing in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. She partners with CXOs to drive digital transformation, cloud adoption, operational efficiency, cost optimization, and innovation initiatives.
23. Daren Rudd
Firm: CGI
Title: Vice President
Daren Rudd is Vice President in CGI’s UK Insurance business, where he leads the Business, Technology, and Innovation consulting team. CGI’s insurance practice is made up of experienced industry, product, and technology experts who advise on digital business and technology strategy, industry insights, operating model and architecture design, and human-centered innovation. With more than 25 years in the insurance sector, including direct experience with leading London Market and General Insurance organizations, Rudd brings a decade of consulting and systems integration expertise to his role.
24. Ramganesh Mahadevan
Firm: Wipro
Title: Principal
Ramganesh Mahadevan is a Principal at Wipro, a leading global technology services and consulting company focused on delivering innovative solutions to complex digital transformation challenges. Mahadevan has a proven track record designing and implementing mission-critical applications and leading IT delivery teams supporting major clients in the banking and retail industries.
25. Laurent Gibert
Firm: Atos
Title: Global Head Financial Services & Insurance
Laurent Gibert is the Global Head of Financial Services & Insurance at Atos, a global leader in digital transformation that supports knowledge, education, and research through scientific and technological excellence. Gibert brings strategic vision and execution expertise focused on P&L optimization, operational excellence, and building ecosystems to drive sustainable, profitable growth.