Paul Merrey

Partner, Insurance Strategy Group Lead, Deal Advisory

KPMG in the UK

Paul is a Partner, Insurance Strategy Group Lead, Deal Advisory within KPMG's Global Strategy Group, focused on the insurance sector.

Paul's team works with insurers, brokers and reinsurers, helping executives to change, grow, adapt, shape and respond to disruptive forces. The team supports organisations in defining their ambition and developing innovative strategies, before working shoulder to shoulder with clients through implementation, drawing on KPMG’s broad industry and multi-disciplinary expertise.                                                                                              

Paul has extensive experience of leading growth strategy, innovation and efficiency improvement assignments, having worked with many of the leading players in the Life and General Insurance sector, and being closely involved in important Lloyd’s and London Market initiatives. Prior to joining KPMG, Paul spent more than a decade working across the Prudential plc Group, where he was latterly Head of Strategy & Corporate Development. Paul previously held roles in Prudential’s US business, Prudential’s UK Insurance Operations, Egg plc and Group Head Office. Paul started his career working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Barclays.                                                         

  • Advisory
  • Deal Advisory
  • Innovation and Engineering
  • Operating Effectiveness
  • Strategy and Operations
  • MA, University of Oxford

  • MBA, Warwick Business School

  • Associate, ICAEW