Aon has created 13 new partners in its business. All are UK-based employees working in its global wealth and health solutions teams.
These new partners include:
- Chintan Gandhi, who joined Aon in 2008 and is head of Aon’s collective defined contribution specialist team. Gandhi also leads leads Aon’s relationship with several professional trustees and supports the growth of Aon’s integrated pensions administration business via third-party evaluators in this area of the market.
- Dominic Grimley, who currently leads bulk annuity transactions within Aon’s risk settlement group. Grimley has secured future benefits for the members of over 200 pension schemes and also manages Aon’s buyout and wind-up services and insurer due diligence service.
- Oliver Hamilton works within The Townsend Group, the real assets advisory business of Aon. He advises institutional investors on real asset solutions and their implementation. He is also responsible for researching European real estate debt funds across Europe, as well as long income and residential funds in the UK. Before joining Aon in 2012, Oliver was head of manager research at Redington Limited, having started his career at PwC.
- John Hardern works in Aon’s corporate pensions team in St. Albans, providing advice to DB pension schemes, which range in size from £30 million to over £15 billion. He is also co-lead of the National Corporate Consulting team in the UK, advising over 300 UK-based companies on all aspects of pensions and benefits.
- Ben Harris works with integrated and multi-service clients ranging in size from £200 million to £2 billion in both lead advisory and client relationship roles. He has also taken on programme management roles in relation to some of Aon’s highest profile and complex GMP equalisation projects. Ben has also held leadership roles within Aon’s trustee advisory business, including leading the St. Albans office-based Trustee Retirement Consulting team since 2017
- Kelly Hurren leads Aon’s 65-strong UK member options team. Under her leadership, the team has developed solutions to combine member options with GMP equalisation, created bridging pension options for members facing an earlier-than-planned retirement and supported schemes to improve the education and advice available to DB and defined contribution (DC) members at retirement. Hurren also chairs the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Personal Financial Planning Working Party.
- Chris Inman leads the Aon’s UK defined contribution investment advisory service and is a member of the DC Investment Committee. Chris is responsible for ensuring that the investment consulting services provided to DC pension plans in the UK evolve to meet their changing needs and are tailored to the unique requirements of members.
- Tim Manuel co-heads Aon’s responsible investment (RI) team and leads on how the company consults with clients. He also leads the development of Aon’s consulting solutions and marketing strategy and is co-chair of Aon’s UK RI Committee.
- Don McKinna is a member of Aon’s pension administration leadership team and leads and directs professional, technical and expert colleagues nationally, including project managers, administration and specialist technical business resources. He is primarily responsible for transformational and revenue projects that are part of strategic business programmes which contribute to Aon’s growth.
- Geri McMahon joined Aon as a career returner in 2018, and now co-heads Aon’s (RI) team, leading development of commercial strategy and Aon’s RI fund offerings. She has played a key role in driving the rapid growth of Aon’s RI business, including the launch of the Aon Global Impact Fund last year. McMahon is a founding member of Aon’s UK Retirement & Investment Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Group.
- Claire Morland leads Aon’s executive compensation practice in Europe and acts as a trusted adviser to remuneration committees and management across a portfolio of UK and international clients, with a focus on financial services.
- Paul Scrivens leads data & analytics for Aon’s human capital solutions, with a focus on driving digital transformation and innovation across its client data products. Paul joined Aon in 2016 from KPMG, where he gained experience delivering finance transformation programmes for large corporates.
- Tom Smith joined Aon’s investment practice in 2006. He acts as lead investment adviser to a diverse range of clients in both the public and private sector, encompassing both pension and sovereign reserve funds and with assets ranging from £100 million to over £5 billion. He is a member of Aon’s Advisory Investment Sub-Committee and UK Client Solutions Group.