Business Insurance Names Two Aon Executives as 2011 "Women to Watch"

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Dec 05, 2011, 10:45 ET

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) today announced that two executives have been named to Business Insurance magazine's 2011 "Women to Watch" list: Kristi Savacool, chief executive officer of Aon Hewitt, and Kelly Superczynski, senior managing director of Aon Benfield.

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At least one Aon leader has been named to the "Women to Watch" list each year since the awards were announced in 2006.

As CEO of Aon Hewitt, Kristi Savacool leads a global organization that is solving our clients' most pressing issues around health, retirement and talent. Under her leadership, Aon Hewitt is taking full advantage of the organization's deep advisory and delivery expertise to create superior integrated solutions. The firm is analyzing the data and behavioral patterns from the more than 21 million participants in Aon Hewitt's industry-leading benefits administration database to offer clients unique insights and thought leadership to solve an increasingly complex set of issues.

Kelly Superczynski is the global head of Aon Benfield's Rating Agency Advisory team, which is responsible for delivering rating agency and accounting modeling and consultative services for Aon Benfield's clients. Since joining the firm in 2003, Kelly has developed the team into the foremost Rating Agency Advisory group worldwide, with representatives in seven countries serving Aon Benfield clients across the globe. Kelly also manages Aon Benfield's global Market Analysis practice group, which is responsible for reinsurer credit risk analysis and providing industry research and analytical insight to clients and brokers on the reinsurers with whom Aon Benfield places business. Under her leadership, the group introduced MarketReView®, an award-winning, innovative portal that houses Aon Benfield's proprietary reinsurer credit reports on more than 200 reinsurers.

"The strength of Aon's ability to empower results for our clients lies with our people," said Greg Case, president and chief executive officer of Aon. "Kristi and Kelly represent what Aon does best—understanding the distinct needs of our clients and offering innovative thinking and solutions that address today's unique risk and people challenges. We congratulate Kristi and Kelly on earning this prestigious award and thank them for the outstanding contributions they are making to our clients, our firm and our industry."

Business Insurance's annual "Women to Watch" feature highlights an elite group of 25 women who are doing outstanding work in commercial insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits and related fields. A panel of the magazine's senior editors selected this year's honorees based on their recent professional achievements, influence on the marketplace and contributions to the advancement of women in business.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON) is the leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services. Through its more than 61,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon unites to empower results for clients in over 120 countries via innovative and effective risk and people solutions and through industry-leading global resources and technical expertise. Aon has been named repeatedly as the world's best broker, best insurance intermediary, reinsurance intermediary, captives manager and best employee benefits consulting firm by multiple industry sources. Visit http://www.aon.com for more information on Aon and http://www.aon.com/manchesterunited to learn about Aon's global partnership and shirt sponsorship with Manchester United.