Marsh Expands UK Property Risk Team

Marsh announced from London that it has appointed Chris Houston as a Senior Consultant in its Property Risk Consulting team. He will provide property risk consulting services to clients in the London area and south of England.

Houston joins Marsh from Zurich Risk Services, where he was a Team Leader with responsibility for 12 risk specialists in the high-value, high-profile buildings sector. During his five years at Zurich, he provided property risk management and anti-terrorism advice to both public and private sector clients in respect of their property portfolios. Houston has also worked in the entertainment and leisure industry.

Hugh Forster, Leader of Property Risk Consulting for the Southern Zone at Marsh noted that “property-related risk can incur some of the biggest costs to business today. As organizations look to create value from rationalizing assets and streamlining supply chains, so these potential exposures increase. A badly managed property risk can lead to business interruption, increased claims, damage to reputation and expensive insurance.”

He noted Houston’s “unique understanding of property loss control and risk and his “experience.”

Source Marsh UK – www.mmc.com