Lloyd’s Chairman Will Join Aon

Max Taylor, who will complete three years in office as chairman of Lloyd’s at the end of this month, will be joining Aon Corp. beginning Jan. 2, 2001.

Taylor is leaving Lloyd’s after a board decision earlier this year to return the company chair position to a part-time job. Before becoming chairman of Lloyd’s at the beginning of 1998, Taylor spent 27 years in the insurance brokerage industry, where he had various senior executive management positions.

Taylor was a board member of the US insurance industry’s communications organization, the Insurance Information Institute. He is the former chairman of the London Insurance Market Network, an interactive electronic network for processing insurance contracts, and a past director of the World Insurance Network , a network for transacting business electronically. He is a director of WISe (the Worldwide Insurance e-commerce organisation). He is also a past chairman of the Lloyd’s Insurance Brokers Committee and is the current president of the Insurance Institute of London.