Sam Bagnall

Commercial Tansformation Director
AXA

Sam specialises in complex transformation delivery. Over the course of her 30-year career She has been instrumental in the delivery of numerous transformation programmes across the Insurance, Banking, Consumer Finance and Capital Markets sectors in support of new financial regulation, structural reform, portfolio divestment, IPO and post-merger integration activity. Sam has advised several UK Financial Institutions on major regulatory issues relating to FCA enforcement action and led turnaround aspects of two failing UK banks. She has played a key part in the preparation for IPO of a number of financial institutions. Sam is deeply experienced in driving transformational change and has a comprehensive appreciation of the architecture, governance arrangements and key controls framework underpinning this. She has joined us to lead the Blueprint programme and ensure that we make full use of the investment to deliver an improved commercial underwriting capability, along with the tools and an operating model to support this.