Mr. Glaser, age 54, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh McLennan Companies. Prior to assuming this role in January 2013, Mr. Glaser served as Group President and Chief Operating Officer of Marsh McLennan Companies from April 2011 through December 2012, with strategic and operational oversight of both the Risk and Insurance Services and the Consulting segments of the Company. Mr. Glaser rejoined Marsh in December 2007 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Inc. after serving in senior positions in commercial insurance and insurance brokerage in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. He began his career at Marsh more than 30 years ago. Mr. Glaser was named Chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI) in August 2014. FACI, which comprises experts from business, academia and consumer advocacy groups, as well as state insurance regulators, was formed in 2011 to provide advice to the Federal Insurance Office. Mr. Glaser also serves on the International Advisory Board of BritishAmerican Business and is a member of the Board of Trustees for The Institutes (American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters), the Insurance Information Institute and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Marsh McLennan Companies, Inc. is a global professional services firm with headquarters in New York City.
Marsh McLennan Companies was also ranked 29th on the 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek 50, the magazine's annual ranking of the SP 500's top 50 performing companies.[3]
Burroughs, Marsh McLennan was formed by Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan in Chicago in 1905. It was renamed as Marsh McLennan in 1906.
The reinsurance firm Guy Carpenter Company is acquired in 1923 a year after its founding by Guy Carpenter.
In 1975, Marsh McLennan acquired the human resources consulting firm Mercer.
In 1997, the company bought Johnson Higgins and Sedgwick shortly after.[4]