Brokerage, consulting and software solutions firm WTW has announced the appointment of Florence Tondu-Mélique as the new Managing Director of WTW in France and as Director of Corporate Risk & Broking for France.
Tondu-Mélique will be tasked with deploying WTW’s transformation and investments plans in France, reporting to Anne Pullum, President of WTW in France and Managing Director of WTW Europe.
Her appointment is effective July 1st 2023, until which time Pullum will continue to exercise direct supervision of WTW’s activities in France.
Tondu-Mélique comes from Zurich France where she has held the position of CEO since 2017.
Previously, she served as Chief Operating Officer of Hiscox for Europe, and prior to this she worked for AXA for six years, as Chief of Staff to the Managing Director of AXA Investment Managers and then as Director at AXA Real Estate.
She began her career at McKinsey & Company for seven years in the Financial Services Practice.
“France is an important and high-potential market for WTW, both in terms of the weight of our activities there and the importance of the French economy and the presence of many dynamic multinationals,” said Pullum.
“Florence is a recognized and respected professional in the market. His arrival at WTW will be an asset to accelerate our development in France. In her previous professional experiences, she has demonstrated strong leadership in uniting teams and her ability to generate profitable growth while increasing customer satisfaction,” Pullum continued.
“She has an in-depth knowledge of customer needs and the solutions to meet them, as well as the challenges and opportunities of our businesses.”
Tondu-Melique also commented: “I am delighted to join the WTW teams, whose professionalism, expertise, commitment and customer focus I have been able to appreciate for a long time. I am confident in our ability to continue to write together the beautiful story of this company, strongly anchored in the French economic fabric, to innovate and transform ourselves to continue to best meet the challenges and needs of customers in the future.”
