James Beardsley, resident managing director of Aon's Baltimore and Washington offices, said: "Laura's experience as a risk manager uniquely positions her to better understand our clients' needs and design risk management programs that help them strengthen their businesses. In addition to portfolio casualty and property policies, the real estate environment often requires specific insurance programs to close the deal with lenders, partners and ground lessors."

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"Since joining Radford in 2005 as senior vice president, Linda has been instrumental in building Radford's consulting business and expanding Radford's services globally," said Brian Dunn, CEO of Aon Global Compensation Consulting. "Linda truly is an industry leader and trailblazer, and provides exceptional value to clients in addressing complex issues facing them globally."

For 20 years, Amuso has advised senior management and boards of directors on developing and implementing executive and broad-based pay strategies that effectively link performance to short-term and long-term strategies, considering the ever changing shareholder and governance environment and the talent challenges in the high technology and life sciences sectors.

In 1993, Amuso co-founded iQuantic, Inc., (acquired by Buck Consultants in 2001), and was a key contributor in building the organization into a national compensation consulting business. She also led the expansion of iQuantic's business into the life sciences industry, offering consulting and survey support.

Amuso earned a Bachelor of Science from Ithaca College and a Master of Arts in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She speaks on compensation and corporate governance issues frequently, and has been quoted in various national business publications. Amuso is based in San Francisco.

About Radford Surveys + Consulting

For more than 30 years, Radford has provided compensation market intelligence to the technology and life sciences industries. Global survey databases, which include three million incumbents, offer current, reliable data to 2,000+ clients. Leveraging Radford survey data, our thought-leading global Radford Consulting team creates tailored solutions for the toughest global business and compensation challenges facing companies at all stages of development. In addition to our consulting team, we also offer equity valuation assistance via Radford Valuation Services, and leading-edge market analyses and survey services with Radford Advisory Services. For more information on Radford, please visit http://www.radford.com.

About Aon Consulting

Aon Consulting Worldwide (http://www.aon.com/hcc) is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2007 revenues of $1.352 billion and 6,335 professionals in 117 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting is shaping the workplace of the future through 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 and 2007.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. Through its 43,000 professionals worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources, technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one global insurance brokerage in 2007 based on brokerage revenues, and voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.

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Mr Scontras brings to Aon 27 years of experience in risk management and insurance consulting, sales and client service. He joins Aon from Bank of America in Boston, where as a senior vice president in the Banc of America Corporate Insurance Agency he developed an integrated insurance delivery model aligned within northeast middle market bank channels.

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According to Aon, the Middle East insurance sector is rapidly evolving, driven by factors such as major infrastructure projects across the region, the introduction of legislation for compulsory health and motor insurance in some countries and the emergence and ongoing development of takaful insurance products.

Aon claims Saudi Arabia has the largest market economy in the Middle East, with an insurance sector driven by a $624 billion (396.8 billion euros) investment program that includes $80 billion worth of projects to expand oil capacity and the creation of six new "economic" cities designed to attract industry and create about 1 million jobs.

?We are naturally delighted to receive a license from SAMA,? said Latif AlRayes, chief executive officer, Aon Middle East, in a statement. ?Economic boom, new legislation and structural reform all provide ideal conditions in which to develop a domestic insurance and reinsurance market and Aon is committed to leveraging its specialist and global expertise to play an integral role in the continued development of the Saudi insurance sector.?

(By Marc Jones, London news editor: marc.jones@ambest.com)