NU Online News Service, Sept. 8, 11:30 a.m. EDT

Martin J. Sullivan, the former chief executive of American International Group, has joined insurance broker Willis Group Holdings as deputy chairman, the company announced today.

In addition to deputy chairman, Mr. Sullivan was named chairman and chief executive officer of a new business unit at Willis named Willis Global Solutions. The new business unit will oversee brokerage and risk management advisory services for Willis' multinational and global accounts, the firm said.

Mr. Sullivan, 56, will be based in New York City. He began his career in insurance in 1970 and joined AIU, the non-life United Kingdom company of American International Group, in 1971. He joined the property department of AIU in 1974 and continued to advance in a succession of underwriting and management assignments in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 1993, he was named president of AIU's United Kingdom/Ireland Division and managing director of AIG Europe (UK) Ltd. He was elected senior vice president, foreign general insurance in 1996 and executive vice president, foreign general in 1998. In 1996 he was appointed chief operating officer of AIU in New York and named president in 1997. He was elected to the board of AIG in May 2002 and served as CEO of AIG from 2005 to 2008.