Rosaline Chow Koo, named Asia Business Leader of Mercer HR Services, Will Lead an Expanded Team to Meet the Growing Demand for Total Benefits Outsourcing in Asia
SINGAPORE, Feb. 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Rosaline Chow Koo has been named to the newly-created role of Asia Business Leader of Mercer HR Services, the outsourcing unit of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, and will lead an expanded team to meet the growing demand for total benefits outsourcing in Asia. This new appointment is in addition to Ms. Koo's current role, which she will retain, as the Asia Pacific business leader of Mercer Health & Benefits.
"The expansion of Mercer HR Services in Asia reflects the rapidly growing demand for total benefits outsourcing, including pension, flexible benefits, and healthcare administration," Ms. Koo said. "As the world's top-ranked benefit consulting firm, Mercer is a leader in outsourcing services in the US, Australia and Europe, and intends to leverage its scale and expertise by expanding in Asia with special emphasis on Greater China."
As part of this expansion, Gary Tok will transfer from Australia to Hong Kong to become the Greater China Mercer HR Services business leader and to assist with business planning for Asia.
"Mercer has an important role in helping companies in Asia address the issues that are critical to their success, and the expansion of the Mercer HR Services team in Asia under Rosaline Koo's leadership is a tangible sign of our commitment to growing client needs," said Rajan Srikanth, head of the Asia region for Mercer Human Resource Consulting. "We now have expanded capability to help our clients with flexible benefits administration, retirement and health and benefit planning and administration. This allows our clients to concentrate on their core business strategy, knowing that they have competitive benefit design and administration so crucial to winning the competition for scarce talent in Asia."
Last April, Mercer HR Services announced the establishment of a global operations center in Noida, India, to support continued global growth in fully integrated HR outsourcing solutions. HR outsourcing is one of the fastest-growing service categories worldwide, and Mercer plans to invest US $50 million over the next three years in India to leverage its global resources and maximize the growth opportunity in this category.
About Mercer HR Services and Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Mercer HR Services employs more than 4,000 professionals in major international service centers located in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the US, where some 1,800 professionals work in service centers located in Norwood, Mass.; Dallas and Houston, Tex.; and Deerfield, Ill. Mercer HR Services offers one of the most flexible and comprehensive HR services platforms available and provides complete outsourcing solutions for retirement plan administration and program management, health and benefits administration, absence management, and business process outsourcing for HR services.
Mercer Human Resource Consulting is a global leader for HR and related financial advice and services, with more than 15,000 employees serving clients in over 180 cities and 42 countries and territories worldwide. In Asia Pacific, we have over 2,000 employees across 31 offices in 13 countries and territories. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., which lists its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) on the New York, Chicago and London stock exchanges. For more information, visit mercerHR.com.
Contact:
Mylinh Cheung
Tel : +65-6327-3802
Email: mylinh.cheung@mercer.com
Rosaline Chow Koo
Tel: +65-6327-3577
Email: rosaline.chow.koo@mercer.com
