Ian Wachters

Ian Wachters joined Boston Consulting Group in 2001. He is a core member of the firm’s Financial Institutions and Insurance practices. Ian leads BCG's financial-service pricing team as well as the firm’s pricing-enablement centers in Europe.

Ian’s main focus is pricing, where he has deep background and expertise. He also has extensive experience in wealth and asset management—having worked with private banks, asset managers, insurers, and pension funds—and in managing large transformations and postmerger integrations (PMIs) in banking.

Much of Ian’s recent client work for BCG has taken full advantage of his knowledge of pricing for banks and insurance companies. This includes pricing of current account propositions, pricing in investments, pricing in small- and medium-size enterprises and corporate loans, pricing in motor insurance, and the building of pricing capabilities.

His broader banking experience covers strategy development, PMI, cost reductions, and sales force effectiveness in retail, private, and commercial banking. For insurance clients, he has worked on corporate strategy in life and nonlife, organizational topics, and “bancassurance” sales-force effectiveness.

Before joining BCG, Ian worked for seven years for Royal Dutch Shell, most recently as a European marketing adviser. He was responsible for the business development of specialty-oil-product sales in several European countries. He also worked as a B2B marketing manager for oil products in the Netherlands and as an IT consultant and project manager for Shell International. He has contributed to many BCG reports from the Financial Institutions practice.