The Wired for Growth™ program includes a Virtual Risk Manager designed exclusively to meet your evolving needs as an emerging technology, pharmaceutical or chemical company. Our industry experience allows us to understand your risk, determine optimal strategies to increase risk tolerance, and reduce obstacles to growth.

The Wired for Growth program can help you:

• identify risks and opportunities within your sub-segment of the technology industry
• get the latest risk management advice from industry specialists
• see how your risks and solutions compare to others in your industry
• delve into specialty topics like network liability, intellectual property, clinical trials, directors’ and officers’ liability
• Use our “Growth Navigator” to help navigate risk through various business cycles.
• apply for insurance
• manage your account activities online

We serve a wide range of clients in the following sectors:

• Information Technology
• Communications, Networking, Telecommunications
• Electronics and Computer Hardware
• Semiconductor
• Software
• Information Services
• Medical Devices and Equipment
• Biopharmaceutical
• Internet Related Businesses
• Industry Focused Associations
• Law, Accounting, Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms that serve these industries

We offer risk management products, services and solutions to help protect your emerging business, which could include:

• Traditional Property and Casualty Insurance Products:
  • Package Insurance
  • Commercial Automobile
  • Workers’ Compensation
• Specialty Insurance Products
  • Technology Errors & Omissions
  • Network Risk Insurance
• Executive Liability
  • Directors’ & Officers’ Insurance
  • Employment Practices Liability
• Other Related Products:
  • Property
  • Product Liability
  • Transit Marine
  • Credit and Political
  • Transaction Liability
  • Personal
  • Intellectual Property
  • Clinical Trials

We provide solutions designed to help you establish risk management in your organization as you grow from early stage to maturity. Here are some common risk factors for emerging technology, pharmaceutical and chemical firms:

• Raising Capital
• Retaining talented workers
• Maximizing their value of Intellectual Property
• Unique revenue recognition for most technology sub-segments
• Deploying successful product launches
• Foreign exposures at an early life cycle
• Partnerships, outsourcing, joint ventures
• M&A activities
• Public company exposures

Wired for Growth™ is a registered trademark of Affinity Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Aon Corporation. Aon Corporation is a family of brokerage, consulting and consumer insurance companies providing innovative solutions for diverse businesses through global distribution networks. As the world's second largest insurance services provider, Aon offers innovative risk management, insurance services and consulting solutions for individuals, municipalities, healthcare, commercial and industrial enterprises, financial institutions and insurance organizations.

Wired for Growth™ is a registered trademark of Affinity Insurance Services, Inc.; in CA, MN, & OK, AIS Affinity Insurance Agency, Inc. (CA License #0795465) and in NH & NY, AIS Affinity Insurance Agency.

As an emerging business, you have specific strategic goals. Achieving these goals requires managing your risks effectively and with minimum use of your company's valuable resources. Aon's innovative, award-winning Wired for Growth platform is designed to address the risk management needs of early-stage companies in the technology, pharmaceutical and chemical industries as they progress toward their desired exit strategy.

Our distinct platform delivers risk management solutions, strategies, virtual tools and insurance products to emerging growth companies. Wired for Growth facilitates the management of rapidly changing issues and creates efficiencies that enable your firm to focus on its core business.

As your strategic risk advisers, we use our worldwide expertise in technology, law, venture capital, private equity, accounting and investment banking to help you focus on the specific risk management challenges facing your organization as it transitions from early stage to maturity.

Wired for Growth stems from an intensive study on the risk management needs of emerging growth companies, and targets the ways risk management is viewed in today's evolving economy. Our clients harness the power of Wired for Growth to proactively manage risk and achieve their goals.

By focusing on all segments of the technology, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, Wired for Growth delivers an unprecedented knowledge base for our clients. In these industry sectors, every day brings new challenges, new risks and market volatility.