AOC Aon Corp.

CEO of Aon Japan to Lead Company Diversity Initiatives for Region HONG KONG, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part of its growing diversity initiative, Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), a leading provider of global risk management services, today announced that Randy Wada, chief executive officer of Aon Japan, has been appointed Chief Diversity Officer for Asia Pacific and will serve on the company's global diversity advisory board. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO) "Asia Pacific represents one of the most culturally diverse regions within Aon," said Bernard S.Y. Fung, chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Asia Pacific. "Randy's extensive experience in recruiting, nurturing and developing talents representative of the diverse cultures comprising the Asia Pacific region has been and will continue to be a key success factor for our firm." Wada came to Aon in 1997 as the National Managing Director for the Japan Group America when Aon acquired Alexander & Alexander. He transferred to Japan as the CEO of Aon Risk Services Japan Ltd in 1999 and added the role of Japan Country Manager in 2004. Throughout most of his 25-year career in the insurance industry, Wada has been responsible for delivering value-added risk management services to Japanese firms. "Japan is facing the most severe workforce shortages in the world," said Corbette Doyle, Aon's chief global diversity officer. "As CEO, Randy brings a first-hand perspective to the reasons why diversity gives Aon a distinctive advantage in the ongoing competition for talent." Aon's goal for its global diversity initiative is to create a world-class magnet for talent that nurtures the unique background, skills and creativity of the company's 43,000 colleagues around the world. Since 2006 Aon has launched two global metrics for measuring success on its diversity objectives -- more women in senior management positions within the company, and four regionalized diversity strategies -- with the objective of embracing the client needs and talent imperatives of each community served by Aon, and to cascade those strategies from the executive level all the way down to the newest employee. Aon's diversity and inclusion goals focus on continued improvement by hiring the best, building the best and being the best. Aon recently was named by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation as one of 195 major U.S. businesses to receive a 100 percent rating in the Foundation's Corporate Equality Index. The Index rates employers on a scale from 0 to 100 on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. Aon's rating can be found on the Human Rights Campaign website at http://www.hrc.org/cei. 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 43,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical resources, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. 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 successfully execute strategic options for our Combined Insurance subsidiary, the impact of current, pending and future regulatory and legislative actions that affect our ability to market and sell, and be reimbursed at current levels for, our Sterling subsidiary's Medicare Advantage health plans, 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, ERISA class actions, the impact of the analysis of practices relating to stock options, 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. Media Contact Bernie Fung Tom Armstrong Chairman & CEO, Aon Asia Pacific Regional Director, HR & Communications Regional Office (852) 2861-6648 (852) 2861-6522, http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Bernie Fung, Chairman & CEO, Asia Pacific Regional Office, +1-852-2861-6648, , or Tom Armstrong, Regional Director, HR & Communications, +1-852-2861-6522, , both of Aon Corporation Web site: http://www.aon.com/ http://www.hrc.org/cei

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