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18 January 2022Insurance

WTW attracts seasoned financial lines talent from rival Marsh

Global broker  WTW (Willis Towers Watson) has tapped a seasoned financial lines executive from rival Marsh to help grow and develop its banking client portfolio within the global FINEX line.

Julie Baker (pictured) will join WTW as lead relationship management for the banking sector, based in London and reporting into Marcus Porter-Wright, GB head of FINEX financial institutions.

Baker has been with Marsh for over 20 years, designing and managing bespoke financial lines programmes for a broad spectrum of financial services clients within the FINPRO division. She is also the growth leader at Marsh for the financial services team responsible for driving new and expanded business across the division.

Baker will assume her role at WTW in April 2022 and will be responsible for growing and developing the banking client portfolio.

Porter Wright said: “We are delighted to announce Julie as our Lead Relationship Manager for the Banking sector. Her extensive experience in managing and developing the financial services sector allows us to provide added value to both our FINEX proposition and to our financial services clients.

“We are delighted to be attracting high calibre talent from our competitors into our global FINEX line of business which remains a considerable growth area for WTW.”

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