Women in reinsurance


PrOFILE Name: Wendy Lane


Company: Willis Group Job:


Board of directors


Timeline: 2004—Board of directors, Willis Group


1992—Chairman, Lane Holdings


1981—Director, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation


Wendy Lane has been on the board of directors at Willis Group since April 2004. She has been chairman of Lane Holdings, an investment firm, since 1992. Prior to forming Lane Holdings, Lane was a principal and managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation, an investment banking firm, serving in these and other positions from 1981 to 1992.


“My highlight at Willis has been the first year of new leadership under Dominic Casserley,” she says. “It was characterised by a smooth transition with a focus on growth, under a new CEO with a broad financial perspective, backed by a strong, insurance experienced deputy CEO. I’m very proud of that.


“Outside of Willis, the highlight has been being able to reinvent


myself a couple of times from being an investment banker, to an investor and then to being a director.”


Lane says the biggest challenge of her career to date has been


the repositioning of Willis for growth, enabled by financial and accounting steps and a new compensation scheme design.


“I’m very much aligned with Dominic to make Willis the


best broker, with the strongest analytics capabilities to really differentiate itself from the competition,” she says. “On a personal level, I continue to seek intellectual growth and want to continue adding value to the companies I work with.”


“Prior to forming Lane Holdings, Lane was a principal and managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation, an investment banking firm.”


26 | INTELLIgENT INsUrEr | May 2014


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