Lambros Lambrou
New York,NY
Summary
Pioneering CEO with a multi decade proven track record at Aon Plc, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and market leadership. Expert in turnaround management and strategic visioning, I've worked and led teams in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, to innovate and dominate in the insurance and human capital sectors. Renowned for building high performing teams, effective communication, and transformative leadership, I've consistently delivered results and fostered a culture of excellence, global perspective, and collaboration, being a key architect of the Aon United culture that exists in Aon Plc today.
Member of Aon's Executive Committee and Global Inclusive Leadership Council.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Strategy Officer
Aon Plc
05.2025 - Current
- Leads Aon's inorganic strategy.
- Responsible for building Aon's global middle market strategy
- Executive support for NFP, Aon's largest acquisition to date that closed April 2024.
- Responsible for continuous improvement in the firm's Aon United and 3x3 strategies.
CEO Human Capital
Aon Plc
04.2023 - 04.2025
- Business profile - Revenue $4bn, Employees 15,000
- Initiated Human Capital strategy that delivered outsized industry growth within 12 months to drive company growth, increasing market share and profitability.
- Developed a high-performance executive team across Health, Wealth and Talent focused on delivering and strengthening core capabilities, enhanced through strategic pillars of distribution, client analytics, integrated solutions and inorganic opportunities.
- Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive, and performance-oriented business culture to lead industry in innovation, launching industry leading client analytics such as Aon's Health Risk Analyzer.
- Led successful turnaround efforts for underperforming divisions, restoring profitability within tight timeframes.
- Improved organizational structure by reallocating resources and redefining roles for greater efficiency and alignment.
CEO Global Specialties / CEO Commercial Risk
Aon Plc
02.2018 - 04.2023
- Business profile - Revenue $5.5bn, Employees 18,000
- Aligned Global Specialties, Transactional Solutions, Retail and Wholesale Broking, Claims, Carrier Management, Risk Consulting, Data & Analytics and Technology capabilities under a Global Commercial Risk platform with global and regional leadership.
- Drove collaborative strategies supported by performance metrics to deliver sum of whole growth opportunities.
- Developed a high-performance executive team for improved productivity and efficiency.
- Fostered culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation and rewarding team based exceptional performance.
- Championed Helix operating model to fuse better decision making and collaboration between solution line and geographic leadership.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with C Suite in insurance carriers and strategic partners.
CEO Aon Australia
Aon Plc
01.2014 - 02.2018
- Business profile - Revenue $300m, Employees 1,500
- Implemented turnaround strategy that delivered material improvement in business growth and margin expansion.
- Built new leadership team focused and accountable for a 4 year plan delivering productivity and efficiency improvements.
- Established new operating model that embraced enterprise wide teamwork efforts and performance metrics - L Shaped P&L.
- Created a positive work culture, resulting in increased employee satisfaction and retention rates. Launched 'Ticket to the Game' for high potential colleagues.
- Cultivated company-wide culture of innovation and collaboration recognized in the Australian Insurance Industry Awards with Aon winning Large Broker of the Year in 2014, 2016 and 2017.
CEO Global Broking Center, CBO EMEA
Aon Plc
11.2010 - 01.2014
- Business profile - Revenue $350m, Employees 1,000
- Launched industry first 'revenue alignment' model to increase collaboration between retail and wholesale broking teams, leading to improved placement outcomes for clients and eliminating divisive revenue split discussions. This led to double digit revenue growth within 12 months of launch.
- Led the launch of innovative sustainable solutions, like Aon Client Treaty, as a result of investments in data and analytics and 'capital value chain' broking strategies to capture new market segments and driving revenue growth. ACT is still today the only solution of its kind in the world that brings additional insurance capital in a full follow form to all clients accessing the London wholesale market.
- Reinforced company's market leadership in the London, Bermuda and Singapore wholesale markets.
- Built a unified regional broking leadership team of country chief broking officers across EMEA focused on innovative new solutions and significantly higher yield management.
Head of Aon Analytics and COO Aon Broking
Aon Plc
02.2008 - 11.2010
- Architect of Aon's Broking scorecards that drove increased yield management and enhanced usage of structured portfolio solutions in all regions.
- Development of Aon’s Global Risk Insight Platform which today is the world’s leading repository of insurance placement information.
- Part of the leadership team that created Aon’s first Centre for Innovation and Analytics, housed in Dublin.
- Launched Aon Inpoint, Aon's insurance carrier consulting capability. The first of its kind in the industry, this business powered by fact based analytics enabled insurance companies gain visibility and execute strategies to strengthen their value propositions to corporate clients.
Roles in Insurance & Reinsurance in UK & Australia
Aon Plc
09.1986 - 02.2008
- 1986 - 1992 Lloyds property broker
- 1993 - 2000 Ran Australia/New Zealand Facultative Reinsurance and Alternative Risk Transfer capabilities
- 2001 - 2008 Led Australian broking team and APAC carrier management capabilities
Education
Executive Leadership Program
INSEAD Business School
Paris, FranceBachelor of Arts - Economics And Statistics
Exeter University
05-1986
Skills
- Innovative, Visionary with a Global perspective
- Transformative leadership
- Growth, Results Orientation and Customer Focus
- Turnaround and Portfolio Management
- Industry Expertise
Languages
French
Limited Working
Timeline
Chief Strategy Officer
Aon Plc
05.2025 - Current
CEO Human Capital
Aon Plc
04.2023 - 04.2025
CEO Global Specialties / CEO Commercial Risk
Aon Plc
02.2018 - 04.2023
CEO Aon Australia
Aon Plc
01.2014 - 02.2018
CEO Global Broking Center, CBO EMEA
Aon Plc
11.2010 - 01.2014
Head of Aon Analytics and COO Aon Broking
Aon Plc
02.2008 - 11.2010
Roles in Insurance & Reinsurance in UK & Australia
Aon Plc
09.1986 - 02.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Economics And Statistics
Exeter University
Executive Leadership Program
INSEAD Business School
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