Global advisory, broking and solutions company WTW, has announced the promotion of Michael Creighton to Head of Trade Credit and Trade Finance, Great Britain, effective immediately.
In this newly created role, he will report to Paul Lacey, Head Of Financial Solutions GB, and will be responsible for implementing WTW’s growth strategy for trade credit and trade finance in GB.
Pieter Van Ede, global head of trade credit, WTW, commented: “Providing unmatched solutions and valuable advice to our trade credit and finance clients requires best in class talent. Michael is a prime example of the calibre of expertise leading our offering and I am delighted to congratulate him on this new role.”
Creighton has been part of WTW since 2019 when he joined as Executive Director within financial solutions, a role he held for almost five years.
During this time he led a team responsible for the credit and political risk insurance requirements for a portfolio of financial institutions and corporate clients.
Prior to joining WTW, he was Head Of Export Credit Finance at Nedbank. Creighton started his career in trade credit insurance when he joined Coface South Africa, where he spent 15 years.
He went on to spend eight years at SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency, and was responsible for running their representative offices in Africa and for a period in Asia.
In addition, Creighton was a non-executive board director and finance and audit committee chairperson of the African Trade Insurance Agency (now African Trade & Investment Development Insurance), an African multilateral export credit agency and trade credit and political risk insurer.
“Michael has been integral to the ongoing success of the financial solutions team and this new position reflects both his proven leadership skills and expertise, as well as WTW’s continued investment in servicing our trade credit and finance clients. I look forward to further working with him as we realise our ambitions and execute our growth strategy in 2024,” said Lacey.
