Ms. Avery is Marsh's U.S. Practice Leader for Business Continuity Risk Management and manages the Environmental Consulting and U.S. Supply Chain practices as well. She is responsible for practice development, client service delivery, business development, and quality. She has extensive business continuity and operational risk management experience as well as deep industry experience, which includes financial, retail, distribution, and manufacturing experience.

Ms. Avery has 17 years of experience in risk management, business continuity, and information security. Prior to joining Marsh, she was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, responsible for leading the Northeast commercial enterprise resilience (operational risk management, business continuity, information security, quality) practice.

She was also the first chief information security officer at GE Capital, responsible for setting up, managing and directing execution of the information security program across the 200+ GE Capital companies globally.

Ms. Avery holds a bachelor of arts degree in management information systems from Pace University.