Anne Pullum succeeds Gaffney as director of corporate development
Willis has promoted Simon Gaffney as chief operating officer.
Previously, director of corporate development, Gaffney will lead the operations function of Willis Global, which encompasses Willis’s reinsurance, specialty insurance and risk consulting businesses. He will report to Steve Hearn, chairman and CEO of Willis Global and deputy CEO of the Willis Group.
Gaffney joined Willis in 2000, when Willis acquired the risk information research and technology firm W.I.R.E. Ltd. Since then he has served in a number of corporate roles encompassing planning and analysis, strategy, ecommerce and technology and business transformation.
Anne Pullum succeeds Gaffney as director of corporate development.
Pullum will play a key role in determining the broker’s strategy and will she work across a number of key functions. She will report to Dominic Casserley, group chief executive.
Pullum joins Willis from McKinsey & Company, where she was engagement manager serving financial services and natural resources clients.
Commenting on these appointments, Dominic Casserley said: “Investment in business development and operations is an integral part of our strategy to improve our operational efficiency and to connect our business globally, providing our clients with the best of Willis’s risk management, analytics and broking expertise. Both Anne and Simon will be working alongside leaders across our company to implement our plans for growth, helping to connect our innovation and on-the-ground relationships to drive solutions for clients right across the risk set they face.”
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