Phil Clement
Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Aon Corporation
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Phil Clement is global chief marketing and communications officer at Aon Corporation. Before joining Aon in 2005, he was the founder and managing partner of a management consultancy, The Clement Group. Before founding The Clement Group, Clement served as senior vice president of global market development for Inforte Corporation. As an instructor at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University, he developed the curriculum for and taught the Managing Innovation & Technology course. Prior to joining Inforte, Clement was vice president of business development for Wizdom Systems. He received an M.B.A. and a master’s in public policy analysis from the University of Chicago. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Southern California.
Philip B. Clement is the global chief marketing and communications officer for Aon Corporation, the preeminent global professional services firm focused on risk management and human resource consulting and outsourcing. The firm has 59,000 colleagues in over 120 countries.
Clement has responsibility for all of Aon’s marketing, which includes branding; market analysis, external and public; and demand creation. He also is responsible for driving many of Aon’s programs in the area of sales, sales systems and innovation. Aon Corporation generated total revenues of $8.5 billion in 2010.
Previously, Clement was a managing partner of The Clement Group, a management consulting firm that he founded in Chicago. In that role, Clement served a wide variety of clients from the Fortune 50 to venture-backed start-ups as an expert in revenue-oriented growth strategies, particularly in marketing, sales processes, go-to-market channels and new product launches.
Clement is an advocate of “value marketing” and has an impressive track record in leading rapid-growth initiatives at professional services firms – ranging from a number “Inc. Fast 50” companies to the largest global consulting companies. Prior to starting the Clement Group, he served as the senior vice president of global market development for Inforte Corporation.
Clement has served as an instructor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy. He also served as an adjunct professor at the Kelstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.
Clement received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a Master of Public Analysis from the University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Analysis with a concentration in statistics. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Southern California, where he received a multidisciplinary certificate in journalism, documentary filmmaking and anthropology.
He is a past president of Chicago’s Business Marketing Association; board member of the Better Government Association, the nation’s oldest government watch-dog organization; a board member of St. Chrysostom’s Day School of Chicago; a board member of the Goodman Theater in Chicago; and a member of the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Public Policy.
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