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CHICAGO, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon Consulting, the human capital and management consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), announced today the appointment of Kathryn Hayley as chief executive officer of Aon Consulting U.S. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) "We welcome Kathryn to Aon Consulting," said Andrew Appel, chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Worldwide. "She has a great track record of success, working with clients of all sizes, industries and complexities, as well as a deep understanding of running business on a global level. I look forward to Kathryn, together with our chairman of Aon Consulting U.S., Mike Gulotta, helping us lead our U.S. business and partnering with Aon Consulting's global leadership team. With Mike, Kathryn and the rest of our U.S. leadership team, we are extremely well positioned to execute our growth strategy." Hayley, who has more than 25 years of experience in the consulting industry, has been with Deloitte Consulting LLP since 1984, serving in numerous leadership positions. Currently, she is the Midwest regional managing director, responsible for a practice specializing in human capital, strategy and operations, technology integration and enterprise applications. She is also a member of the Deloitte & Touche U.S. Board of Directors, and has held positions leading Deloitte's operations in India, and the financial services practice in the Americas. "Kathryn has a significant amount of experience in leading multi-continent and multi-million dollar projects during her career, which will be a tremendous asset to us as we continue to grow," said Gulotta. "She is the ideal person for this position, and we're delighted to work with her as we strive to create an even stronger Aon Consulting for our clients." "Kathryn joins the growing list of quality leaders with Aon Consulting," said Greg Case, chief executive officer, Aon Corporation. "Her addition shows that we are not only committed to attracting the top talent, but it also demonstrates that the industry's best want to be a part of Aon." Hayley is a board member with a number of organizations, such as the Gateway Foundation, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Civic Consulting Alliance. She also served as president with the Society of Information Management (Chicago Chapter). Hayley earned a bachelor of science degree in applied computer science from Illinois State University, and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She and her family reside in the Chicago area. Both Gulotta and Hayley will report to Appel. (Hayley will have a "dotted line" reporting relationship with Gulotta.) Hayley will begin serving as chief executive officer of Aon Consulting U.S. later this spring. For more information, contact: Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, 312-381-4786, About Aon Aon Corporation ( http://www.aon.com/ ) is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There are 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon Consulting is among the top global human resources consulting firms, with 2005 revenues of $1.255 billion and 7,000 professionals in 120 offices throughout the world. Aon Consulting delivers integrated consulting solutions to help clients with employee benefits, human resources outsourcing, compensation, communication and management consulting. This press release contains certain statements related to future results, or states our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical or anticipated results depending on a variety of factors. Potential factors that could impact results include: general economic conditions in different countries in which we do business around the world, changes in global equity and fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could influence revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could affect our ability to borrow funds, funding of our various pension plans, changes in the competitive environment, our ability to implement restructuring initiatives and other initiatives intended to yield cost savings, our ability to execute the stock repurchase program, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in revenues and earnings due to the elimination of contingent commissions, other uncertainties surrounding a new compensation model, the impact of investigations brought by state attorneys general, state insurance regulators, federal prosecutors, and federal regulators, the impact of class actions and individual lawsuits including client class actions, securities class actions, derivative actions, and ERISA class actions, the cost of resolution of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies from actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Joe Micucci of Aon Consulting, +1-312-381-4786, Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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