Willis, a WTW business, has announced new leadership appointments across Corporate Risk & Broking North America designed to strengthen the platform’s growth.
As part of these moves, Michael Butch has been hired as Growth Operations Leader for North America, a newly created role.
In his new position, Butch will leverage his over 20 years of experience in sales analytics, financial analysis and data-driven decision-making to drive alignment, efficiency and consistency across growth initiatives to help accelerate pipeline development and conversion, Request for Proposal (RFP) adoption and recruitment.
He joins Willis from Marsh, where he most recently served as North American Sales Analytics and Insights Lead.
Effective immediately, Jim Blaney will take over the role of Growth Enablement Leader, North America.
An expert in organic growth, disciplined sales execution and specialization-led strategies, Blaney will focus on equipping teams with the tools, insights and capabilities needed to support new business generation, client retention and disciplined sales execution.
The executive has held multiple leadership positions throughout his career at WTW and most recently served as Head of Sales and Client Management.
Butch and Blaney join Brian Hetherington, Strategic Growth Leader, North America, as part of the North America Growth leadership team, reporting to Paul Graziano, Chief Growth Officer for Willis.
Together, the team will work to accelerate growth and strengthen client engagement across North America.
“These appointments mark another step in building a stronger, more connected growth platform across North America,” said Graziano. “Mike, Jim and Brian bring deep expertise, trusted leadership and a strong commitment to culture and community — key reasons clients choose WTW and continue to grow with us over the long t
