Willis Group Holdings has appointed Sara Benolken as the firm’s global industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications.
Benolken, an insurance industry leader who has specialised in advising Willis’s TMT clients since joining the firm in 2007, will lead the fifth industry group designed to connect Willis industry experts with product and geography leaders around the world.
The new global industry groups will focus on needs of clients within each sector, and provide them access to a range of insurance products and risk management services.
Willis’s TMT industry group will report to Steve Hearn, deputy CEO of Willis Group.
Hearn said: “Technology, media and telecommunications represents one of the fastest growing, and rapidly converging industries worldwide, with a complex set of traditional and emerging risks accompanying its growth.”
“As an insurance industry leader, Sara Benolken has proven herself, during a career spanning more than 20 years, to be one step ahead of change in this sector, providing clients with the insights, service, creativity and trust that our clients demand in a risk advisor.”
Benolken said: “As recent trends have shown, today’s global technology companies may well become tomorrow’s leading media companies. As firms’ business models, manufacturing processes or geographic footprints evolve, their needs for innovative risk management solutions must evolve just as quickly. Willis offers leading industry knowledge and analytic depth to global TMT firms and I am looking forward to growing our presence even more in the months and years ahead.”
