Editorial
June 2010

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
 


Marsh     

Marsh has announced that it has made two senior appointments in its Employee Benefits Practice in the EMEA region. Grant Armstrong has joined as the Regional EB Practice Leader for the UK and Continental Europe, based in London. He reports jointly to Chris Lay and Joe Grogan, with a matrix line to Greg Arms. Mr Armstrong was previously at Alico where he held a series of country and regional leadership roles. Most recently, he was the profit-centre head of Alico's European Group Benefits business and led the bank distribution for Group Benefits. In addition, Samir Maddah is the new Regional EB Practice leader for the Middle East and Africa, based in Dubai. He reports to Bob Makhoul, also with a matrix line to Greg Arms. Before joining Marsh, Mr Maddah was the Regional Crhief Operating Ofificer for Ace Life Middle East & Africa, supporting the company's expansion throughout the region. He also held serveral regional leadership positions at Alico for over 25 years. In their new roles, Mr Armstrong and Mr Maddah will focus on strategy, business planning and execution, training, sales, recruiting, the client value proposition and competitive positioning. In addition, they will team up with Mercer Health & Benefits to manage employee benefit distribution relationships regionally.


Pitmans Trustees Limited

Pitmans Trustees in the UK has announced the appointment of Richard Butcher as Managing Director. Mr Butcher, who joined the firm in 2008 as a Director, will be based in Reading. Mr Butcher previously ran his own small independent trustee and consultancy business. 


Insurope  

Insurope has appointed Lisa J. Morrow as Regional Director for the West Coast in the USA. Ms Morrow was most recently with Mercer in its health and benefits team, managing a variety of clients based on the West Coast. Before that she worked at The Walt Disney Company as a Senior Consultant, Strategy & Program Development, in its corporate employee benefits department where she developed and implemented benefit strategies, managed vendor relationships and project managed strategic initiatives both domestically and globally. Ms Morrow is based in Los Angeles.  


Atlantic–Pacific Capital

AtlanticPacific Capital has announced the addition of Mohammad Almojel as Principal in its private funds business. As part of the global distribution team, Mr Almojel will focus on marketnig and sourcing private equity, property and infrastructure funds in the Middle East. Before joining AtlanticPacific Capital he was Associate Director at MerchantBridge Private Equity in Dubai. Mr Almojel holds a directorship at Al-Mojel Group, a diversified holding company in Saudi Arabia, and is a member of the Board of the Saudi-British Business Council, which aims to strengthen business relationships between Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. He will be based in London.


AXA  

AXA has announced the appointment of Shu Khoo as Executive Vice-President, Group Head of Human Resources, based in its Paris office. Ms Khoo will succeed Alain Rohaut, EVP, Group Head of HR since September 2003, who is retiring, and will report directly to Henri de Castries, Chairman of AXA's management board. She joined the organization in 2005 as Regional General Manager, Human Resources and Internal Communications of the AXA Life platform in Asia and later became Head of Group Executive Management in Group HR.


Mercer 

Will Oulton 
has joined Mercer as European Head of Responsible Investment within its investment consulting business, based in London. His previous position was as Director of Responsible Investment at FTSE Group where he led the management and development of FTSE's responsible investment services, including the FTSE4Good, FTSE KLD and FTSE Environmental Markets indices.


Russell Investments

Global financial services firm Russell Investments has announced the appointment of several senior executives across Asia, including in Singapore and the Republic of Korea. Edmund Teo joined the organizaiton in April as Regional Director, Sales and Marketing. Singapore-based Mr Teo joins from First State, where he was responsible for sales and business development and oversaw branding and marketing. He will lead business development activities for both institutional and retail operations, define channel strategies for new clients and manage the client servicing team. Mr Teo will hold a senior leadership role in the regional management team. In Taiwan, Joey Chao-Yu Chen has been appointed Director, Business Development. He will be responsible for the organization's onshore activities, marketing and client service. He will also work with its global operations on the development of new funds. Mr Chen has spent more than 17 years with financial companies in the region, including Morgan Stanley and Fidelity. These additions follow Russell's recent decision to divide its regional business into three sub-regions and to appoint Mahendran Nathan as Chief Executive of its operations in ASEAN, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India. Both Mr Teo and Mr Chen will report directly to Mr Nathan. DongKi Kim has also joined Russell as Chief Representative of the organization's Korea representative office. He joined from Korea Life's international investment and risk team where he was responsible for alternative investments. Mr Kim will oversee a number of functions, including manager research and promotional activities in the Republic of Korea. He will report to Yuseok Kim who has been promoted to Director, Korea.


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