CHICAGO and NEW YORK, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Global Risk Consulting, the world's leading risk consulting organization, today announced the promotion of Mike Giacobbe and Laura Taylor to two newly created leadership positions. Giacobbe was appointed managing director of business development for the Americas and Taylor was named global leader of enterprise risk management.

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In his new role, Giacobbe will lead the U.S. business development team and align AGRC more closely with Aon Risk Services, the risk management and insurance brokerage business of Aon Corp., to provide clients with customized integrated products and services. Previously, Giacobbe served as director of AGRC's enterprise risk management practice.

Taylor will streamline the development and delivery of AGRC's enterprise risk management products and solutions while overseeing regional resource and product development in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to assuming her new position, Taylor was managing director and national practice leader of AGRC's enterprise risk management practice.

"Our clients will directly realize the benefit of these well-deserved promotions, and I congratulate Laura and Mike on their dedication to delivering distinctive global value on a local level," said Stephen Cross, chief executive officer of Aon Global Risk Consulting.

Giacobbe and Taylor will remain in Chicago and New York, respectively.

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About Aon Global Risk Consulting

With more than 2,000 risk professionals in 50 countries worldwide, Aon Global Risk Consulting delivers risk management solutions designed to optimize its clients' risk profiles. Its suite of services encompasses risk consulting; risk control, claims and engineering, and captive management. The risk consulting team focuses on actuarial and analytics, enterprise risk management and risk financing solutions. The risk control, claims and engineering team consists of 600 professionals who support clients globally in the property and casualty risk control arena. Aon Global Insurance Managers, the captive team, is widely recognized as the world's leading captive manager, with local capabilities in over 30 countries. Aon Global Risk Consulting is dedicated to expanding our integrated solutions to help clients effectively and proactively manage risk in a changing and challenging global market.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log on to http://www.aon.com.

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