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Industry veteran Anand Shankar to lead sales strategy and efforts across region SINGAPORE, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), today announced that 20-year industry veteran Anand Shankar has joined the firm in the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer, Asia Pacific. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) Shankar will lead sales strategy and efforts across practices and markets in Asia Pacific for Aon Consulting, working closely with the regional leadership team and colleagues globally. "We welcome Anand to Aon Consulting," said Edouard Merette, CEO for Aon Consulting, Asia Pacific. "I look forward to working with Anand, who has a wealth of industry experience in Asia Pacific. Anand also has an excellent track record of developing solutions for multinational and local clients, which is aligned with our goal of providing clients with distinctive value through our people. We are confident that under his leadership, Aon's foothold in the region will strengthen." Shankar brings two decades of experience in people management to Aon Consulting, and he is a well-known strategist in the professional services and human resources industry. Shankar previously held senior positions in other consulting firms, most recently with Talent2 as Group Corporate Director leading strategic growth through organic and inorganic strategies across multiple businesses. He spent more than a decade with Hewitt Associates in India, Hong Kong and Singapore consecutively, and most recently held the position of head of business development and line functions for consulting and outsourcing. On his new role, Shankar said: "I look forward to being part of Aon, which has a track record of high performing organizational talent strategies and sound implementation processes. I share in the firm's belief that Asia Pacific is an important market with tremendous growth opportunities for HR consulting and outsourcing needs." Based in Singapore, Shankar joined Aon Consulting Aug. 11. About Aon Consulting Aon Consulting Worldwide is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2008 revenues of $1.358 billion and more than 6,300 professionals in 229 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting works with organizations to improve business performance and shape the workplace of the future through employee benefits, talent management and rewards strategies and solutions. Aon Consulting was named the best employee benefit consulting firm by the readers of Business Insurance magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008. For more information on Aon, please visit http://www.aon.mediaroom.com/. About Aon Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 37,000 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. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and Aon 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/. Contact: Elisa Bakri +65 6239 7540 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Elisa Bakri of Aon Corporation, +65 6239 7540, Web Site: http://www.aon.com/

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