Dominic Casserley

Dominic Casserley is a business leader in private and public markets, including during his 30-year career at McKinsey & Company and as Chief Executive Officer of Willis Group, the global insurance broker.

Dominic was at McKinsey & Company from 1983 to 2013, based first in New York, then Hong Kong, and from 2000, in London. As one of McKinsey’s most senior partners, Dominic’s consulting focused on financial services, risk management, and transformations. A McKinsey board member for fourteen years, Dominic oversaw global finances and risk management processes and served eight years on the committee that reviewed senior partners’ performance. Dominic also led McKinsey’s review of its own strategy in 2011, a process that led to a six-year period of growth and change.

Dominic left McKinsey in January 2013 to become the Chief Executive Officer of Willis Group where he undertook a series of acquisitions, transformed the business, and grew revenues and profits significantly until his departure in 2017. He initiated the 2016 merger with Towers Watson to create Willis Towers Watson and oversaw the first year of integration. Since 2017 Dominic has focused on private equity investing. Dominic also has held a range of non-profit leadership positions. In the UK he was the Chairman of the Charities Aid Foundation, a core member of the Davies Commission to increase the number of women on corporate boards, and one of the only four non-academics allowed on the Council (Board) of Cambridge University.

Dominic has also served as a board member for several theatre companies dating back to the 1990s and is currently Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Board at the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.