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Aon announces new UK partners

LONDON, 7 November 2023 - Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, has announced 12 new UK-based partners in the Wealth and Talent Solution Lines of its Human Capital capability.

These promotions continue to build on the breadth of innovation, advice and expertise at Aon, helping clients to develop resilient workforces and navigate new forms of volatility.

The new partners are:

Sue Austen
Sue Austen leads Aon’s secretariat, pensions management and secondment services. She is responsible for the development and delivery of quality services to Aon’s clients in these areas, ensuring that Aon’s clients are able to access best practice solutions. Sue is a client manager with over 30 years of pensions experience. She is a member of Aon’s Trustee Consulting leadership team.

Jaysen Arumugum
Jaysen Arumugum is an Enterprise Client leader for Financial Institutions within Aon’s Enterprise Client Group. Jaysen’s role is to work closely with and bring the best of Aon to a portfolio of global and regional strategic financial institution clients. Jaysen works with teams across the entire breadth of Aon’s business to help clients address their Human Capital and Risk Capital challenges.

Andrew Grime
Andrew Grime is a qualified actuary with over 20 years of pensions industry experience, advising a range of pension schemes, varying in size from £20 million to £4 billion. With his breadth and depth of expertise, Andrew helps schemes set and execute long-term benefit and financing strategies, with a key emphasis on the risk settlement market, where he is focused on developments in the areas of capital-backed journey plans and commercial consolidators.

Keaton Hoffman
Keaton Hoffman is in Aon’s Talent Solutions practice, where he advises remuneration committees and senior HR leaders in the technology and life sciences sectors. He leads Aon’s private market practice for UK and EMEA, supporting start-ups, scale-ups and venture capital firms with relevant compensation data and tailored advisory solutions.

Steven Keller
Steven Keller is scheme actuary to 10 pension schemes – all FTSE100 companies or globally recognisable names – and provides clients with expert strategic advice to ensure their objectives are met. Steven also leads Aon’s GMP reconciliation and benefit audit specialist teams, working closely with colleagues in pension administration to deliver relevant and holistic solutions.

Jennifer O’Neill
Jennifer O’Neill is a senior leader in Aon’s Responsible Investment group, which she has helped grow since its inception in 2017. She provides strategic advice to highly sophisticated institutional investors ranging in size from £4 billion to £24 billion. Jennifer is a prominent advocate for inclusion and diversity within Aon and across the industry as a whole.

William Parry
William Parry has been advising clients on their investment strategies for 15 years. He has a dual role in Aon’s client facing investment team, advising clients on their investment strategy and continuing to build Aon’s Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business, as well as developing the way Aon supports clients operationally. William sits on one of Aon’s internal committees tasked with improving gender equity in the workplace.

Charlotte Quarmby
Charlotte Quarmby is a senior member of Aon’s UK Risk Settlement Group, advising clients on setting and executing strategies to de-risk their pension schemes and enhance member security. Charlotte’s experience includes bulk annuity transactions (buy-ins and buyouts) ranging from £10 million to multi-billion. Charlotte chairs the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Bulk Annuity and Longevity Swap group.

Rosie Tolaini
Rosie Tolaini leads client and data operations for Aon’s global Data Solutions practice, providing human capital data products and insights to clients. Rosie has worked in Data Solutions product operations for over 10 years and is currently leading an operational transformation programme to enhance the Data Solutions client experience and create efficiencies in data management and delivery processes.

Matthew Towsey
Matthew Towsey joined Aon in 2011 and leads the European liquid alternatives manager research team. He oversees research across hedge, multi asset and private markets funds, as well as opportunistic strategies. His role includes sourcing, evaluating and monitoring alternatives funds. In addition, he is involved in creating client portfolios and works closely with Aon’s fiduciary management business. Matthew brings almost 20 years of hedge fund experience to the role.

Guy Saintfiet
Guy Saintfiet leads the team responsible for the management of Aon’s liquid alternatives solutions. Guy has 25 years of asset management experience and has built up deep expertise in manager selection and portfolio construction. In addition to focusing on delivering strong investment returns, Guy works with clients to ensure their governance needs are met, spearheading innovative cost and transparency initiatives as well as ESG and Net Zero integration.

Tom Williams
Tom Williams is a specialist in Aon’s member options team with extensive experience in helping a large portfolio of clients to improve engagement in employee retirement decisions. In this role, Tom works with his clients to implement significant and innovative member choice and de-risking exercises which help shape industry best practice.

Visit Aon.com for more information about Aon’s Wealth Solutions and Talent Solutions.

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