Owen Marchetti-Sund joins Selwyn to lead decommissioning

Decommissioning has been part of every program we run. From this month it has somebody whose whole job it is.

Owen Marchetti-Sund has joined Selwyn as principal for decommissioning, effective this month, based in London.

Until now retirement work has been carried inside every other practice — scoped as part of a modernization or a migration, and delivered by whoever was closest to it. That has worked, but it has meant the discipline had no owner and no dedicated capacity, which is precisely the failure the practice exists to fix in clients.

He has spent nine years on decommissioning and records retention across regulated estates. From this month retirement is scoped as its own engagement, with its own date, in every proposal the firm writes.

I have spent nine years being the last person on programs everybody else had already left. It is a strange thing to be hired for and I am pleased about it.

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— Owen Marchetti-Sund, Principal, Decommissioning