princeOMC was set up by ex-Deutsche Bank director Ian Prince. As a user of outsourcing consultancy throughout his career, he has experienced the benefits and the pitfalls.
“I know that the large consultancy team approach adopted by traditional outsourcing consultancy firms is both unnecessarily expensive and counter productive,” he says.
“The internal resources and expertise of the organisation have to own the initiative.”
“They need guidance and assurance from a consultancy with experts who understand the process intimately, can inform them on potential benefits, costs, project structure, next steps, and risks, and who can provide experienced project staff to support their own internal team.”
Ian Prince
Ian Prince, partner at princeOMC, has over 24 years' experience in the Investment Banking sector, the majority of that time involving IT offshoring and outsourcing. Before founding princeOMC, Ian was a director of IT at Deutsche Bank where he established a 70-person offshore management centre responsible for monitoring and maintaining 5,000 servers and 2,000 databases in London and New York.
During the past 2 years with princeOMC, Ian has worked with a number of clients in the Legal Services sector, including CMS Cameron McKenna in their ground-breaking £10M, 5-year outsourcing agreement to offshore selected IT services to one of India’s leading outsource vendors.
He has over 14 years experience in outsourcing to companies including IBM, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and CSC.
Ian’s career has taken him around the globe with a variety of roles in London, New York and Tokyo, which has helped him formulate his vision for princeOMC. His background gives him particular strengths in negotiating major outsourcing contracts and delivering the outsourced service, whilst his investment banking background provides significant technology management expertise in a complex, client focused and rapidly changing business environment.
Jack Diggle
Jack Diggle is a partner at princeOMC and works with law firms and investment banks 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 princeOMC, he worked for 10 years in the investment banking sector, specialising in outsourcing and offshoring. 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. His particular strength lies in delivering pragmatic offshoring solutions in complex operating environments. A key focus is on building strong working relationships between on and offshore entities.
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.