We are an advisory firm focussed on helping financial services organizations transform themselves through digital technology. When we set up our firm, we quickly realized that the core of successful transformation in finance is to help our clients focus on their customers' needs. Realizing that these needs go beyond mere financial upside, we refocused our work on helping our clients focus on a broader matrix of outcomes that include sustainability, social impact, and fair governance.
Purpose
Pacemakers believe that in order to evolve financial services, firms need to collaborate with smaller, more agile and more focussed firms. Big firms realise this but they use very inefficient ways of identifying the ideal partner. We constantly hear of collaboration between established players and innovative challengers. But we also hear that many of these do not deliver expected outcomes. The reason for these failed collaborations is rarely on one side.
Most failed collaborations fail for reasons that are not technological. A successful collaboration needs to of course ensure capability but it also needs to ensure compatibility.
We launched Pacemakers because we felt there was a need for a better approach in selecting a partner. We adopted some of the processes of executive search to help our clients find the right partner as a strategic supplier, joint venture or even acquisition.
Alignment with Guiding Principles
At the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, we invite companies of all sizes, industries, and geographies to champion our Guiding Principles for Inclusive Action and demonstrate how they contribute to meaningful change. To ensure alignment with our principles, our members are assessed by at least one reporting body, sustainability-related certificate, benchmark, rating agency or similar organization.
