David Kerr

David Kerr is a Partner in Deloitte’s Canadian consulting practice. He is an insurance industry and technology leader with 30 years experience in IT, industry solutions, business and market development, project delivery, strategic consulting, various forms of outsourcing, team building and leadership.

He has completed projects for many leading global insurance companies and brings proven leadership experience in global, diverse and multicultural environments. Kerr is an accomplished team leader who maintains strong relationships with industry executives, business partners, clients and team members worldwide.

Representative Consulting and Delivery Experience:

• Large Canadian multi line insurer: Program review for a $100M back office transformation. Ascertained major risk elements and requirements for program success. Recommendations included governance structural changes, additional organizational change, business architecture, integration architecture, testing and quality management. Most recommendations were accepted to support a successful program completion.
• Large Eastern European P&C Insurer: Led operational cost reduction project: to improve competitiveness across key operating ratios. Project included defining solution approaches to address high priority gaps. Recommendations included business operational improvements and application of targeted technology to reduce costs 25%+.
• Large P&C Insurer:  Led Claims organization and operations assessment.  Result: developed business case and set of plans for transformation of Asia Pacific Multi-National Insurer: Led development of new target operating model to support improved client service and 35% operational cost savings. The new model included implementation of a new IT Shared Services Group to drive significant savings and improvements in quality and speed of delivery across the region.
• Asia Pacific Multi-National Insurer: Led development of new target operating model to support improved client service and 35% operational cost savings. The new model included implementation of a new IT Shared Services Group to drive significant savings and improvements in quality and speed of delivery across the region.