Geoff Taylor: Risk managers often must sell management on their value.(management of Nike Inc.)

Business Insurance, June, 2007 by Ladbury, Adrian

Byline: Adrian Ladbury AIRMIC's outgoing chairman explains to Business Insurance Europe's Adrian Ladbury how risk managers can prove their worth to the board. The concept of upside risk management is gaining in currency among the boards of European corporations. But risk managers still have a lot of selling to do before it becomes mainstream and helps bolster the influence of risk managers, according to Geoff Taylor, immediate past-chairman of the U.K.

Assn. of Insurance & Risk Managers. Mr. Taylor, who is the Hilversum, Netherlands-based Europe, Middle East and Africa region risk manager for U.S. sports goods manufacturer Nike Inc., embraced how to gain competitive advantage from risk management as his theme for his year in charge at London-based AIRMIC....

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