The Willis Partnership
 

 

Introduction
Values
Sectors and Functions
Process
Case Histories
Assessment
Events
Willis Papers
Partners
Contact

Partners



Michael Bewes

With many years of general management experience in the financial services industry, since joining the Partnership in 1994, he has carried out assignments in insurance, reinsurance, banking, investment, company ratings, compliance, actuarial consulting, the leisure industry, trade/professional bodies, risk management, ART, education, healthcare, government organisations and charities, many at board level, both executive and non-executive.

A Cambridge MA, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a past president of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He was the ‘Master Insurer’ in 2004. He has specialist experience in the application of psychometrics and multiple-assessment at senior management levels.

 

Dick Hawkes

Dick Hawkes spent the earlier part of his career in Advertising and Marketing, as Board Director of McCann-Erickson and as Managing Director of two Marketing Services companies. He worked with a wide range of clients in sectors including Consumer Goods, Retail and Financial Services, and advised the Organising Committee of the Barcelona Olympic Games on TV rights across the world. A former Chairman of Red Post Production, Dick has also raised finance for small companies from Private Equity firms.

He joined executive search firm Alexander Hughes in 1994, becoming Managing Consultant in 1998. Joining The Willis Partnership in early 2004, Dick focuses on general management, board level and head of function assignments across a range of businesses, and in particular those in the Media and Consumer Goods markets.

 

Ian Willis

Since founding the company with a partner in 1979, he has completed assignments in many different fields in commerce and industry in the UK and internationally. He has a particularly deep knowledge of many of the businesses and professional bodies active in the City of London, having worked extensively for clients in the Lloyd's market, the actuarial profession, the investment markets and the insurance company sector.

He spent several years in military service and has an MA and M Phil from Oxford.