Jane Kielty: Aon leverages expertise and scale to ‘join the dots’ for clients

Jane Kielty sitting

’We’re creating new solutions where they didn’t exist before to help clients solve problems,’ says broker’s UK chief executive

When Jane Kielty’s promotion from head of UK commercial risks to UK chief executive at intermediary Aon was announced at the beginning of the year (9 January 2024), she told Insurance Times that the news had come somewhat out of the blue for her.

And while the move has yet to receive formal regulatory approval, Kielty has been using the months since the news broke to familiarise herself with the new role and continue learning from “role model” Julie Page, who was promoted from UK boss to be Aon’s chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) last year (3 November 2023), when the broker giant merged its client serving capabilities and operations in the UK and EMEA.

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