About Us

SHAW International

Mr. Shaji Hassan and Mr. Aşkın Düşündere are Managing Partners of SHAW International established in June 2014.

As a business focus, SHAW international was specifically founded to serve the Turkish insurance, reinsurance and private pension market and articulate the solutions and methods that reflects the local realities and to develop the local resources to meet the customer needs and business objectives.

Before teaming up to establish SHAW international, members of the management team had been helping local and international companies achieve their business targets since late 1980s in Turkey and Middle East. Shaw international consultants and key individuals bring in the industry experience to the firm resulting in its ability to deliver the highest quality of strategy conception, strategic planning and management consultancy, capacity development and financial advisory services.

Over the years, members of the Shaw team have played an integral part in the growth and progress by working with clients to help them succeed through both buoyant and challenging economic environments.

We provide business development services to insurance, reinsurance and private pension companies in life, property and casualty, accident and health insurance branches as well as private pension and employee benefits advisory services for public and privately owned clients.

We deliver value for money in the areas of:

Management Consulting Services with focus on insurance, reinsurance and private pension sector.
Training and Development.
Enterprise Risk Management and operational risk management.

Our Mission

To become a premier provider of professional services for the insurance, reinsurance, private pension and banking sectors.

Our Vision

To add value and exceed our customers’ expectations consistently by listening to the needs of our business partners.

Quality Assurance

We adhere to strict quality assurance/risk management principles, compliance with pre-release peer review to ensure quality work product, verification of methods, assumptions, calculations, compliance with standards and the best practices and relevant legal and regulatory requirements with well-defined corporate governance structure and responsibilities.

The Quality Assurance procedures at SHAW international include the followings:

Pre-release Peer Review at signatory authority levels.
Compliance Monitoring (Post-release Peer Review).

The sound business and entrepreneurial background of our top team, coupled with their good business sense has helped us identify growth opportunities in our key operating markets and has ensured a consistently high rate of growth for the companies

Our Team

Shaji Hassan, FCA/FLMI

Shaji is a Managing Partner of SHAW International (Training and Management Consultancy).

An experienced professional having 30+ years of experience in the role of COO, CFO with American Life and MetLife in Turkey (17 years) and Saudi Arabia-Riyadh (1.5 years) involved in the IPO of MetLife, AIG and ANB Cooperative insurance Company . Prior to this he had worked as Audit Manager with KPMG in Dubai. Shaji has experience of working with diverse cultures and cross-functional management background and documented growth and efficiency resulting in increase in profits, top line, customer satisfaction and retention.

Serve as a catalyst for positive change and provide leadership based on inverted pyramid philosophy, infusing organization with customer centric policies and service as a top priority. A proven team player having a track record of managing the development and retention of talent achieving below average turnover and dealing with multilevel employees.

He has experience in the functional areas of Operations working as COO and Accounting, Finance and investment working as CFO. He has also participated in Due Diligence of three insurance companies in Turkey from the buyers side and also involved in the audits, investigations, forensic accounting and setting of systems and procedures and preparations of business plans and feasibility studies while working with KPMG Dubai.

Aşkın Düşündere, FLMI

Mr. Aşkın Düşündere started his insurance career as a management trainee at Türkiye Genel Sigorta in 1988. After having worked at various managerial positions in life and health insurance and pension branches at Mapfre Genel Sigorta AS, Mapfre Genel Yaşam Sigorta AS, and Garanti Hayat ve Emeklilik AS respectively, he worked as the COO of QNB Sağlık Hayat Sigorta ve Emeklilik AS since its establishment in 2007 until the end of 2013. In the meantime, he served as a member and the president of the Life Insurance Research and Development Committee of the Turkish Insurance Association many years. Aşkın is a promoter of change management and he believes in the power of transparent communication.

Aşkın earned his fellowship (Fellow, Life Management Institute) from LOMA, based in Atlanta, USA in 2012. Aşkın served as the member of the Advisory Board of the Turkish Insurance Institute in the years of 2012 and 2013. He gave lectures on ERM, operational risk management, life insurance, private pension system applications and individual financial planning at the Turkish Insurance Institute and at the Finance Institute of the Istanbul Ticaret University.