Fiona Gilvey starts new role at Willis Risk Solutions

Fiona Gilvey has been named head of sales and client development for the risk solutions group of Willis.

Based in London, she will be responsible for driving revenue growth in the major accounts segment and will report to James Nicholson, managing director, Willis Corporate Risk Solutions.

The broker said Gilvey’s appointment is part of its strategy to expand its risk solutions global client advocate team and their portfolio of clients and prospect relationships. She will be accountable for sales, retention and ongoing business development through leading, coaching and providing support to the risk solutions team.

Gilvey started her career as a commercial underwriter and claims executive with Guardian Insurance in Melbourne. Since then, she has worked in the major accounts segment in a variety of roles, at Sedgwick, PWC and Deloitte.

Most recently, she was with Aon where, she led the engineering, manufacturing, defence and transportation division of Aon Global, focusing on its largest and most complex corporate clients.

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