Meet the Strategy team |
Our Strategy practitioners combine first-class strategy skill-sets with in-depth sector expertise to deliver value to our clients. Our team members have a diverse range of professional backgrounds, with recent hires from strategy boutiques, industry, government and other professional services and consultancy firms.
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Sabri Challah – Head of Strategy Sabri leads the Strategy practice in the UK as well as serving a wide range of clients in the public and private sectors. View Sabri’s full profile |
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Sam Baker - Private Sector Sam is the Head of the Associates Team in the practice, supporting the development of our junior strategists. His client focus is primarily on the TMT sector, and commercial due diligence. View Sam’s full profile |
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Howard Davies - Private Sector Howard leads the Private Sector team in the practice, and has a particular focus on the TMT sector, particularly on the commercial impacts of the transition to digital technologies. View Howard’s full profile |
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Duncan Farrow-Smith - Government, Healthcare and Life Sciences Duncan leads the Government, Healthcare and Life Sciences team. He also brings particular expertise in the Defence and National Security sectors. View Duncan’s full profile |
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Ian Foottit - Financial Services Ian leads the Financial Services team in the practice. He is also head of Deloitte’s European Payments and Transaction Processing practice. View Ian’s full profile |
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Kevin O’Reilly - Financial Services Kevin leads the Strategy Insight programme in the practice, as well as heading up the Capital Markets Business for consulting as a whole, based in London. View Kevin’s full profile |
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Richard Punt - Private Sector Richard leads the Strategy Impact programme in the practice. He is also the architect and lead for the Deloitte-wide M&A proposition. View Richard’s full profile |








