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rnest Leung has been in the insurance industry for 30 years, with
most of that time spent at global insurance firm Aon. After working at
Aon Hong Kong for 18 years, Ernest spent eight years at Aon China
before moving to the company’s base in Taiwan. There, as CEO, Ernest
saw an opportunity to transform the business for the better.
“When I was given the job, I understood we needed to make some
changes to the business so we could get Aon back to a leading position in Taiwan,”
Ernest tells The CEO Magazine. The first item on his agenda was boosting the company’s
earnings. “Aon Taiwan has presented remarkable growth in top and bottom lines,” he says.
“So, in terms of financials, we did make significant improvement from year to year.”
The next, and one of the most important factors Ernest wanted to tackle was the
company culture. “We deliberately made a lot of changes in the culture,” he says,
“particularly by raising everybody’s aspirations and making the company a leader rather
than a follower in the market.” »REST
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AON TAIWAN CEO
ERNEST LEUNG HAS
MADE SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES TO
TRANSFORM THE
BUSINESS, PRIMARILY INITS INTERNAL CULTURE.
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