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How can AI transform your global benefits delivery?

Learn to leverage AI for global benefits delivery, balancing innovation with risk management, transparency, and compliance at Mercer Marsh Benefits.

How can you leverage AI to transform your global benefits delivery while minimizing risk?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted by organizations across industries, with HR departments prioritizing its use in employee benefits. While AI offers the potential for more personalized, efficient, and data-driven benefits management —helping employers optimize offerings, boost employee engagement, and cut administrative costs— it also introduces significant risks. 

The rapid evolution of AI technology, coupled with shifting regulations, emerging ethical considerations, and potential data privacy concerns, creates a complex and often uncertain landscape for employers to navigate. Without careful oversight, organizations may face compliance violations, reputational damage, or unintended biases that undermine trust and operational stability. Leveraging AI responsibly requires a balanced approach—embracing innovation while maintaining foundational stability, transparency, and trust.

In this series, we will explore the risks and opportunities associated with AI in benefits management and highlight how platforms like Darwin can support HR professionals in deploying AI thoughtfully, ensuring benefits are both innovative and compliant in an increasingly complex environment.

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About our speakers

Andrew Owens

Andrew Owens

Chief Technology Officer, Marsh Health and Benefits

Andrew is a senior business leader with decades of experience in organizational transformation of both large software development organizations and overall software product businesses. He specializes in introducing and driving agile maturity within globally distributed development organizations. Successful track record of transforming businesses, with a particular focus on moving 'traditional' software businesses to enterprise SaaS businesses.

Simon Jarvis

Simon Jarvis

Head of Product Development, Marsh Health and Benefits

Simon's role involves driving the evolution of Marsh Health and Benefits global benefits platform, Darwin. He has advanced experience in product strategy and customer relationship management, specializing in nurturing stakeholder relations and guiding product management teams to drive enhanced platform capabilities and user experiences.

Carmen Alia

Lead UX Designer at Mercer Marsh Benefits

Carmen specializes in creating inclusive, human-centered experiences that connect employees with the true value of their benefits. With a background in user research and product design, she focuses on bridging business goals with user needs across diverse markets. She’s passionate about how new technologies can elevate UX practice, enabling hyper-personalization and helping design experiences that feel more intuitive, adaptive, and human.

Callum Burns-Green

Global Advisory Market Leader, Mercer Marsh Benefits

Callum is a Senior Partner and Global Advisory Leader for Mercer Marsh Benefits Multinational. With nearly 30 years of experience, he focuses on aligning multinational client needs with innovative benefits strategies, including total rewards, wellbeing, and corporate transaction support. Callum combines deep industry knowledge with a passion for driving transformation and delivering tailored, adaptive solutions that meet the complex challenges of today’s global workforce.

Kate Brown

Global Digital Leader for Marsh Health and Benefits

  • United States

Kate Brown is our Global Digital Leader for Marsh Health and Benefits. With more than a decade of experience across innovation, transformation and total health management, Kate brings deep expertise in employer-sponsored healthcare, benefit strategy, population health, virtual first care and value-based care. A recognized creative problem solver, she helps organizations shape more effective benefits experiences and outcomes.

Ting Lye

Global Propositions Development Leader, Mercer Marsh Benefits

  • United Kingdom

Ting Lye is a product and proposition leader focused on global digital health and benefits platforms. She currently leads proposition and product development for a global health & benefits mobile app at Marsh. Her background spans consulting, startups and corporate innovation — including founding a digital health company — and she has worked across the UK, US and Asia to turn early-stage ideas into scalable, commercially viable products. Ting is particularly interested in where digital health is heading next, especially AI, personalization and new partnership models.

Dr. Zoe Dimov

Senior UX Researcher, Mercer

  • United Kingdom

Dr. Zoe Dimov is a mission-driven Senior UX Researcher at Mercer, specializing in human-centered, data-informed design for employee benefits and related domains. She has 12+ years of experience in HCI and product development. She is designing measurement frameworks and applying behavioral science to define employee experience journeys. Her work focuses on turning robust research into actionable product and proposition decisions.