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Women to Watch: Sarah Turvill

Posted On: Oct. 8, 2006 12:00 AM CST

Sarah Turvill

Chief Executive

Willis International

London

Age: 52

Sarah Turvill has spent all of her 28 years in the brokerage sector at Willis, which she joined in 1978 as an in-house lawyer. During her time at Willis, Ms. Turvill was an instrumental member of the team that built the European network of Willis Group Ltd. in the 1990s. Ms. Turvill also led the team that obtained a license to trade in China through a joint venture company, Willis Pudong Insurance Brokers. Ms. Turvill in 2001 became chief executive of Willis International, where she is responsible for 34 subsidiary companies with total revenue of $447 million and more than 3,800 employees.

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