Creighton joined WTW in 2019 as executive director within financial solutions and has led a team responsible for the credit and political risk insurance requirements for a portfolio of financial institutions and corporate clients.
Before joining WTW, Creighton was head of export credit finance at Nedbank. His career in trade credit insurance began when he joined Coface South Africa, where he spent 15 years. He went on to spend eight years at SACE, the Italian Export Credit Agency, and was responsible for running their representative offices in Africa and for a period in Asia. He was also a non-executive board director and finance and audit committee chairperson of the African Trade Insurance Agency (now African Trade & Investment Development Insurance), an African multilateral export credit agency and trade credit and political risk insurer.
Paul Lacey, head of financial solutions GB, WTW said: “Michael has been integral to the ongoing success of the financial solutions team and this new position reflects both his proven leadership skills and expertise, as well as WTW’s continued investment in servicing our trade credit and finance clients. I look forward to further working with him as we realise our ambitions and execute our growth strategy in 2024.”
Pieter Van Ede, global head of trade credit, WTW added: “Providing unmatched solutions and valuable advice to our trade credit and finance clients requires best in class talent. Michael is a prime example of the calibre of expertise leading our offering and I am delighted to congratulate him on this new role.”
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