Chief executives and risk managerssee eye-to-eye on necessary risk-professional skill sets—but gapsremain between how the two view the role of risk managers,according to the ninth annual Excellence in Risk Management survey from insurance brokerMarsh and the Risk and Insurance Management Society.

Brian Elowe, a managing director in Marsh's globalrisk-management division, says company executives “want the riskmanager to dive into that gap” rather than “wait to be asked tostep in and fill the gap.”

Nowell Seaman, manager of risk management and insurance at theUniversity of Saskatchewan and a member of the RIMS board ofdirectors, notes that some risk managers “want to take theinitiative but need to know how to do it.”

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