{"id":242627,"date":"2018-05-04T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=242627"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T07:11:41","slug":"aon-south-africa-strengthens-executive-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/242627\/aon-south-africa-strengthens-executive-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Aon Benfield Africa strengthens executive team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aon Benfield Africa has announced that Geoffrey Leathem will be joining the executive team with effect from 1 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His role will be focused on its South African business as well as strategic consulting on business development and broking strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Leathem&#8217;s most recent position before joining Aon Benfield was chief executive officer of Guy Carpenter South Africa, a role he held since 2014. He previously held senior positions at Hollandia Reinsurance Company (now Hannover Re), Price Forbes Insurance Brokers, and Marsh South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He has previously served as Council Member and then President of the IIG between 2002-2004. He holds a B Comm degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and is also an Associate of the Insurance Institute of South Africa.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/228997\/aon-south-africa-acquires-niche-international-brokers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aon South Africa acquires Niche International Brokers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aon Benfield South Africa has announced that Geoffrey Leathem will be joining the executive team with effect from 1 November 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[9906],"class_list":["post-242627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242801,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242627\/revisions\/242801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}