Welcome to Cosan Consulting....
Cosan Consulting was founded in 2013 and is a specialist provider of service optimisation solutions for the Employee Benefits industry. We work with our clients to design and implement optimisation programmes that enhance service delivery in a way that is cost effective and risk averse. Our approach covers 5 key areas (as you can see from our Services page) which are integrated, to ensure that we provide a complete solution to our clients, whether they be Employers, Trustees or Service Providers alike.
You can see from our case study section pages, the kind of solutions we bring. Our philosophy is to encourage long term client and provider relationships, as we believe this is the most effective route to true service optimisation. We apply the experience and insight we have gained, over many years in the industry, to engineer the right outcomes for our clients.
Our clients operate in both the public and private sectors and we have advised new start up service providers alongside some of the largest and most established names in the industry. Our clients are important to us and we ensure that we build and maintain a ‘trusted partner’ status with each and every one.
What really makes Cosan different however, is our ever growing team and our energy and enthusiasm for what we do !
Cosan is a Gaelic word meaning “the path” or “the way”. The word Cosan is also associated with:
• Destiny
• Analysis
• Thought
• Searching out and finding the truth
• Rational
• Poised
We feel that all these words resonate with our business approach and culture and they are values that we will not compromise on. We hope you will recognise them through working with us.
We are not a company that consults at arm’s length, we are a company that gets involved to make things happen.
Ten years ago this week Philip and I were in Dublin sharing a few pints of Guinness and thinking about our future employment options, having departed Aon at the end of 2013. As the Guinness begun to work its magic, we rather rashly agreed to set up our own independent firm, with the aim of helping Trustees and Sponsors to manage their pension schemes more effectively. This idea pretty quickly turned into Cosan Consulting, which rather appropriately is a Gaelic word meaning guide or path….This seemed particularly apt for the kind of work we were hoping to do !
We also made a commitment at that time to follow a simple business philosophy of treating our colleagues, clients and business partners in a way that we would want be treated ourselves. This means respect, empathy, partnership, openness and striving for excellence. This has stood us in good stead over the last 10 years and remains central to the way in which we operate day to day.
It’s fair to say, that we learnt an awful lot in that first year, and remarkably during that summer Emma and Marekha left their safe and well paid corporate jobs to join us. Happily, they are both still with us today, along with a team of incredibly talented and committed people who share our excitement about what we do and are unafraid of getting their hands dirty. I am sure that we have all heard it said many times over the years that “our employees are our number one asset” but we can categorically confirm that for a small, close knit firm like us, this is 100% the case !
Ten years on, we still enjoy the odd Guinness or two and no doubt we will be celebrating our first decade with a few libations over the next couple of weeks. We will also be hoping to formally mark the occasion with clients and friends across the industry later this year, as well as at our (now famous) annual Charity Sailing Regatta in Lymington in September. So please do watch this space !
Finally, a big thankyou to everyone who has supported us along the way. You know who you are and we hugely appreciate your trust and belief in Cosan. As you can see, we’ve attached a few (hopefully) humorous pictures of certain moments over the last ten years. Whilst it’s clear the years haven’t necessarily been kind to either of us, its fair to say we have had an awful lot of fun along the way !!
A big thankyou 🙏 to the Aptia teams in Pune and Mumbai who were so generous with their time in showing us how they deliver high class pensions administration in India. A fabulous week and great to meet you all. #pensionsadministrationAptia Group
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