Aon Consulting Worldwide, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation , has announced the expansion of its Asia Pacific team with the addition of new hires across the region:

Boon Chong Na is the director of consulting for Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. Boon has more than 25 years of experience in leading consulting organizations, most recently with Hewitt Associates. His areas of expertise range from corporate governance, organization transformation and post merger integration, to executive compensation, talent strategy and performance management. Boon has extensive consulting experience in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as in Greater China. Boon is responsible for delivering consulting services and solutions for clients in Singapore and the other Southeast Asia countries.

Dhritiman Chakrabarti is director - Total Rewards Consulting, based in Singapore. Chakrabarti comes to Aon Consulting from Hewitt Associates where he was the practice leader for its total rewards group. He has more than 10 years of consulting experience operating out of five different countries. Chakrabarti has expertise across industries in performance and reward consulting, including consulting on executive compensation issues. At Aon Consulting, he is responsible for developing business and delivering compensation consulting services and solutions in the region.

Tony Kong is vice president - Global Applications. Kong has more than 10 years of experience developing sophisticated information technology solutions for global human resource management applications. He was most recently with Mercer. In this new global role, he is responsible for overseeing the introduction of technology and the management of projects to implement new systems and solutions around the world. Kong is based in Singapore.

Rick Payne is a principal consultant with Aon Consulting, based in San Francisco. Payne has more than 25 years of human resource consulting experience across Asia Pacific. He founded and built the Asian business of Corporate Resources Group (CRG), which was sold to Mercer in 1998. He specializes in talent management, organizational design and compensation. Payne is the author of several books and articles on human resource issues in Asia Pacific and also is a frequent speaker at regional conferences.

These most recent appointments follow that of Gina Parekh, who will join Aon Sept. 1 as the Health and Benefits practice leader for Aon Consulting Asia Pacific and country leader for Aon Consulting India. Parekh comes to Aon from Mercer, where she was senior vice president and head of the Employee Benefits practice for India. Prior to Mercer, Gina held the position of chief operating officer and medical director at United Healthcare India for six years. She will be based in Mumbai, India.

"Aon Consulting's new team members are strategically located across Asia, enabling our firm to offer its expertise in growth markets throughout the region, particularly in the talent management space," said Edouard Merette, CEO of Aon Consulting Asia Pacific. "We are seeing a fundamental change in the market that requires a comprehensive approach to talent management from recruitment to development. Our new team is well positioned to respond to these needs by assisting organizations in the development and implementation of strategies to build and retain capable and high-performing leaders.

"We are pleased this group of seasoned human resource professionals has chosen Aon to continue their successful careers," Merette added.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (http://www.aon.com) is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There are 43,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions.