<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.towerswatson.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Towers Watson & Co. was a global professional services firm . Its principal lines of business were risk management and human resource consulting . It also had actuarial and investment consulting practices . In January 2016, Towers Watson merged with Willis Group to form Willis Towers Watson . </P> <P> Towers Watson was formed on January 4, 2010, by the merger of Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt Worldwide . The merger created the world's largest employee - benefits consulting firm by revenue . Towers Watson has 14,000 employees in 35 countries and is expected to have revenue of US $3.6 billion per year . Towers Watson's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board is John Haley, the former CEO of Watson Wyatt . The firm's first Chief Operating Officer, President, and Deputy Chairman was Mark Mactas, the former CEO of Towers Perrin . </P> <P> Towers Watson is the successor to R. Watson & Sons, which was formed in the UK in 1878 . B.E. Wyatt founded The Wyatt Company as an actuarial consulting firm in the USA with seven co-founders in 1946 . The two firms formed a global alliance under the brand Watson Wyatt Worldwide in 1995 and formally merged in August 2005 . </P>

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