Mitigating Risks and Protecting Your Company's Reputation in 2021

A company’s brand and reputation needs to be actively managed like any other business asset. We know that a reputational crisis can impact revenue, profit, balance sheet resilience, share price and stakeholder trust. In this session, we will share cutting edge research that describes the financial impact of crisis events, supported by industry case studies, and we will explain how INC members can be a ‘winner’ in a crisis.

A team of Aon specialists will share insights on three types of crisis events that occur commonly in the food industry – product recall and contamination, how your business’s operating systems could be disrupted, and poor governance (the importance of Directors and Officers insurance). Over the course of the Masterclass, we will share practical tips and advice to help INC members understand, assess, quantify and manage their brand and reputation.

So join us on February 16 at 4pm CET for this exciting free webinar! Register Now!

Aon Expert Speakers

Ciara Jackson, EMEA Food, Agribusiness & Beverage Practice Leader, Risk Consulting Leader @Aon Ireland


Ciara Jackson leads Aon’s EMEA Food, Agribusiness & Beverage Industry Group. This group meets regularly, with a focus on sharing ideas, and understanding sector trends so that Aon is best placed to advise their clients. An emerging risk specialist, Ciara engages with many of Aon’s largest global clients, with an emphasis on risk identification, assessment and developing industry-specific solutions for emerging risks. She is a co-founder of the Agri-Food Diversity and Inclusion Forum in Ireland, and a recognized thought leader in the industry, having authored numerous publications, and presented at key industry events and seminars. She has worked with global businesses (Grant Thornton, General Electric, Kerry Group) in financial, operational, commercial, business development, strategic and leadership roles.

José María Segón, Head of Specialties @Aon Spain

José María leads the Specialties Business Operation of Aon Spain focused on delivering innovative solutions to corporates, banks and global firms through a multidisciplinary highly specialized team. He is responsible for executing Aon’s Spain Specialties agenda focused on driving growth across the different solution lines to the C-Suite of the Clients. He joined Aon in 2000 and has successfully built and developed the Credit Operation being part of the EMEA Credit Leadership since the beginning. He has a solid background in setting up and developing both Team and Businesses in Trade Credit, Financial Lines, M&A, Surety and Political Risk operations for more than 20 years in the UK, French and US markets.

Kary Yates, Executive Director Practice Leader, Product Recall and Contamination @Aon London


Kary is the Practice Leader of the Product Recall and Contamination Team based in the Aon London Global Broking Centre.  Kary’s role is to lead, manage and coordinate global product recall and contamination placements for Aon relating to business that is placed through Aon’s Global Broking Centre, London. Primary duties include product recall and contamination programme design and placement; new product development; market facing as well as client facing alongside the Aon retail network. Kary has exceptional relationships with the London recall and contamination markets as well as proven sales and account management experience.

Karl Curran, Director, Financial & Professional Services @Aon Ireland

Karl has been with Aon for almost 14 years and in that time he has developed a number of differentiating products and led a number of EMEA wide D&O and Cyber initiatives to deliver value for clients. He has considerable expertise with the placement of large complex D&O programmes and advises several EMEA domiciled companies, foreign listed companies, funds and NFP entities on their D&O exposures. Separately Karl sits on Aon’s Financial Lines EMEA Steering Committee and Aon’s EMEA Cyber leadership team. Karl is associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and is a Licentiate of Institute of Banking where he currently holds the designation “Professional Banker”.

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