Christine Walton Joins MMC as Vice President of Public Relations.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. ) today announced that Christine Walton has been appointed Vice President of Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for MMC. She assumes the position on April 2. Walton, 38, will report to James Speros, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of MMC. In her role, Walton will direct MMC's global communications strategy, working closely with MMC's business units on media and public relations. "Christine brings to MMC an outstanding skill-set in communications from her experience as both a corporate communications professional and as a business journalist," said Speros. "As a key leader of MMC's public relations team, she will play an important role working with the global media to enhance MMC's corporate reputation and market-leading risk and human capital businesses." Prior to joining MMC, Walton worked at UBS AG, where she oversaw media relations and acted as a primary spokesperson for UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Wealth Management and UBS Global Asset Management UBS Global Asset Management was the multinational investment unit of UBS AG, a very large multinational financial firm formed in 1998 from the merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation. (Americas) since 2002. Previously, from 1998 to 2002, she worked at Merrill Lynch & Co., where she held a series of communications positions, culminating as the vice president of media relations for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2000. Prior to her tenure there, she worked as a staff reporter for Bloomberg Business News. MMC is a global professional services firm with annual revenues of approximately $12 billion. It is the parent company of Marsh, the world's leading risk and insurance services firm; Guy Carpenter, the world's leading risk and reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. specialist; Kroll, the world's leading risk consulting company; Mercer, a major global provider of human resource and specialty consulting services; and Putnam Investments, one of the largest investment management companies in the United States. More than 55,000 employees provide analysis, advice, and transactional capabilities to clients in over 100 countries. Its stock (ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : MMC) is listed on the New York, Chicago, and London stock exchanges. MMC's website address is www.mmc.com. |
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