Oliver Wyman appoints three AI-focused senior leaders

According to a Business Wire press release distributed May 7, 2026 and carried by Morningstar, Yahoo Finance, and other outlets, Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), announced three senior leadership appointments intended to accelerate AI-enabled integration and transformation. Per the press release, Jeremy Badman, who served as Chief Operating Officer for more than 13 years, will assume the newly created role of Chief AI and Data Officer and "will reimagine how work is delivered, staffed, and scaled with AI technology." The release states Paula McGlarry, a two-decade Oliver Wyman veteran and most recently General Counsel, is appointed Global Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff and will help drive transformation of the firm's operating model. The release also names Mariya Rosberg as Head of Strategy and Growth, a newly created role focused on shaping priorities and accelerating growth; Rosberg brings more than 30 years of consulting and banking experience, including roles at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, and recently led Oliver Wyman's Banking & Financial Services Practice in the Americas. Ted Moynihan, President and CEO of Oliver Wyman and Marsh Management Consulting, is quoted in the release; reporting by Reinsurance News and CityBiz notes the appointees will report directly to Moynihan.

Creating a dedicated Chief AI and Data Officer role and new strategy-and-growth leadership is consistent with a broader pattern where professional-services firms formalize AI accountability at the C-suite level. Industry-pattern observations: firms that carve out senior AI ownership typically focus on three technical workstreams: data and feature engineering pipelines for reusable assets; governance and model risk controls around third-party models; and integration of AI-enabled tools into day-to-day delivery workflows. For practitioners, these priorities usually translate into investments in secure data platforms, model monitoring, and change management for templates and playbooks used by client teams.

consulting firms are increasingly positioning operating-model changes and go-to-market advice around AI capabilities, and appointing senior leaders is a common step to coordinate those efforts. Observed patterns in similar transitions: the practical challenge is not model selection alone but operationalizing AI across billing, staffing, and quality assurance systems so that outputs remain auditable and commercially defensible. For clients and vendor partners, the creation of explicit AI and strategy leadership at a major consultancy signals a tighter integration of AI tools into engagement design and productized solution offerings in the near term, according to coverage in CityBiz and consultancy trade outlets.

• •Whether Oliver Wyman publishes a technical roadmap, governance framework, or white paper that clarifies scope for the Chief AI and Data Officer role and specifics on data access and vendor models.
• •Hiring and tooling signals such as announced partnerships with cloud providers, MLOps vendors, or in-house platform investments that would indicate how the firm intends to operationalize agentic AI capabilities.
• •Client-facing offerings or packaged accelerators tied to AI-enabled delivery that specify repeatable inputs, outcomes, and guardrails for regulated industries.