Insurance and reinsurance broking group, Aon, has announced the appointment of 12 new UK-based partners in the Wealth and Talent Solution Lines of its Human Capital capability.
A client manager with over three decades of pension experience, Sue Austen will lead Aon’s secretariat, pensions management and secondment services.
Austen will be 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. She is also a member of Aon’s Trustee Consulting leadership team.
Jaysen Arumugum was appointed Enterprise Client leader for Financial Institutions within Aon’s Enterprise Client Group. Arumugum’s role is to work closely with and bring the best of the broker to a portfolio of global and regional strategic financial institution clients.
He will work with teams across the entire breadth of Aon’s business to help clients address their Human Capital and Risk Capital challenges.
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.
Grime uses his expertise to help 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.
Aon has also appointed Keaton Hoffman to its 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 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.
Keller also leads Aon’s GMP reconciliation and benefit audit specialist teams, working closely with colleagues in pension administration to deliver relevant and holistic solutions.
As a senior leader in Aon’s Responsible Investment group, Jennifer O’Neill provides strategic advice to highly sophisticated institutional investors ranging in size from £4 billion to £24 billion.
A prominent advocate for inclusion and diversity within Aon and across the industry as a whole, O’Neill helped the group grow since its inception in 2017.
William Parry 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.
Parry has been advising clients on their investment strategies for 15 years. Alongside his role, he will sit on one of Aon’s internal committees tasked with improving gender equity in the workplace.
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.
Quarmby’s experience includes bulk annuity transactions (buy-ins and buyouts) ranging from £10 million to multi-billion. She also chairs the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Bulk Annuity and Longevity Swap group.
Leading client and data operations for Aon’s global Data Solutions practice is Rosie Tolaini. In her role, she will be providing human capital data products and insights to clients.
She 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 leads the European liquid alternatives manager research team, he has been with Aon since 2011. Towsey 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. Towsey brings close to two decades of hedge fund experience to the role.
With 25 years of asset management experience, Guy Saintfiet leads the team responsible for the management of Aon’s liquid alternatives solutions. In addition to focusing on delivering strong investment returns, Aon explains, Saintfiet works with clients to ensure their governance needs are met, spearheading innovative cost and transparency initiatives as well as ESG and Net Zero integration.
Finally, Tom Williams, Aon’s new specialist in member options team, brings to his role extensive experience in helping a large portfolio of clients to improve engagement in employee retirement decisions.
Williams works with his clients to implement significant and innovative member choice and de-risking exercises which help shape industry best practice.
