Aon expands digital infrastructure team amid rising data center demand

Aon has made two senior appointments to expand its digital infrastructure capabilities, as demand for data centers, cloud, and AI-related projects continues to grow. The firm hired Stephen Fox as Managing Director within its Digital Infrastructure Lifecycle Solutions practice and named Brian Hearst as Global Digital Infrastructure Builders Risk Leader.

The move reflects increasing complexity in financing and insuring large-scale infrastructure projects, where insurers and investors are being brought into the process earlier. Aon said the goal is to better align underwriting appetite, risk insight, and capital access to support capital-intensive developments and improve execution certainty.

“As digital infrastructure becomes more capital‑intensive and systemically important, clients need advisors who can bridge technical risk, underwriting appetite and access to diversified sources of capital. These appointments reinforce our commitment to delivering integrated Risk Capital strategies that help clients manage volatility, unlock capacity and build resilience across their most complex assets.” – Joe Peiser, CEO of Risk Capital.