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Name:
Brian Wanat
Title:
Chief Broking Officer
Company:
Aon
Membership:
Member (Active) 
Bio:
Brian is the CEO of Commercial Risk Solutions North America responsible for business performance and leadership. In this role, he is responsible for leading and delivering best-in-class industry solutions, services, capabilities, data & analytics to clients through commercial risk product leaders, specialties and teams. He also ensures the U.S. broking strategy is aligned with our global objectives, while developing and fostering our market relationships. Brian’s area of expertise includes directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability for financial institutions, employment practices liability, transaction facilitation insurance and blended financial products programs. He is a member of the Aon North America Leadership Team. Prior to Brian’s current role, he served as U.S. Chief Broking Officer. His direct management responsibilities included the Financial Services Group (FSG), National Property, National Casualty, Aviation, Crisis Management, Marine and Aon’s Global Risk Consulting Group (AGRC). In addition, duties included setting best practices for commercial broking that reside in our field organization and where broking is embedded inside our industry practice groups. Prior to Chief Broking Officer, he served as the chief executive officer of Aon’s financial service group (FSG) for the U.S. from 2014-2018. In his roles at Aon, he has had direct client responsibilities for some of FSG’s largest and most complex clients. In addition to managing the practice, he managed market relationships, acted as a claims advocate on serious claims and led client deal teams in this product area. Brian is a frequent public speaker on management liability and has participated in engagements at RIMS, PLUS, and ACI. He was the recipient of the 2008 Power Broker Financial Institutions – Risk & Insurance Award. Brian earned a B.S. in accounting from Rutgers College and an MBA in finance from Rutgers University Graduate School of Management.
Company Affiliation
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Aon

 

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