It was evident that both people and project management are where her strength is and passion lies. Finding pure HR not challenging enough, she embraced the opportunity to manage cross-company projects, which also involved IT.

She joined Aon South Africa in 2008 to project-manage mergers and acquisitions, but ended up running HR as well as doing general management. In 2012, she spent eight months in the Aon Sydney office managing a radical restructure of the business. She found it 'an interesting experience' but adds: “There are more challenges on the African continent.”

On returning to SA, Hutchison took over the role of CIO for Aon SA and Sub-Saharan Africa, with the task of continuing the systems consolidation process of Aon’s acquisition of Glenrand M-I-B. This involved reducing the number of systems and cutting the IT spend by 30 percent over a three-year period.