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Lou Ann Layton

Lou Ann Layton is known as someone with top-notch connections and outstanding relationships in the marketplace.

Layton, a managing director at Marsh Inc., is "one of the best," according to one risk manager. "She knows the product and the market inside and out." Another risk manager described her as someone "you just trust implicitly." As the FINPRO National D&O Practice Leader and Chairperson of the Global D&O Advisory Board at Marsh, Layton assists in servicing many Fortune 100 and Fortune 250 clients around the United States.

Layton remarked that everyone in the financial services business is "being challenged in very ...

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