key person risk
English
Noun
key person risk (countable and uncountable, plural key person risks)
- (business) Risk carried by an organization that depends to a great extent on one individual for its success.
- 2015 Matt Vickers, "Managing Key Person Risk," Dynamic Business 14 Jul 2015
- The most notable examples of key person risk occur in some of the world’s largest companies.
- 2018 Shuli Ren, "Xi's the Key-Person Risk for Emerging Markets: China's president may be around for a long time. There are two ways of looking at that." Bloomberg 25 Feb 2018
- Are we being too complacent in a space that now has one key-person risk?
- 2015 Matt Vickers, "Managing Key Person Risk," Dynamic Business 14 Jul 2015
Synonyms
- key man risk
Related terms
- key person insurance