IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Risk Services of Southern California, a unit of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), the world's leading provider of global risk management and consulting services, today announced that Philip A. Simone, CPCU, has joined the firm as senior vice president for Aon Risk Services. He will be based in Irvine, Calif.

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Simone brings more than 30 years of industry experience to Aon and rejoins the firm from Marsh, where he was a sales leader and in business development in Southern California. Prior to joining Marsh, Simone was a strategy and technology consultant with Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, consulting to global financial institutions including insurance companies, banks and investment companies. He began his insurance and financial services career in 1974 with Nationwide Insurance Company, in a 15-year career which spanned all areas of insurance underwriting, sales, marketing, operations, investments, accounting, management and operations improvement.

Simone joins a distinguished team of professionals with extensive experience in representing buyers of complex insurance products, including property, casualty, workers compensation, directors and officers liability, employment practices, fiduciary liability, professional liability insurance, among other coverages.

Simone earned an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He is a member of the board of directors of the Orange County Alzheimer Association and of the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Business, and an active member of the NASD, RMIS, CPCU, California Trucking Association and several other industry associations. Simone was previously active with the Orange County United Way, American Jaycees, City of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, and Council of Ethics in Economics.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting. Through its 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources, technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 Insurance Survey. In 2008, Aon ranked highest on the Business Insurance ranking of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.

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