Oxbow Partners, a consulting firm best known for its work in insurance and financial services, is celebrating its tenth anniversary in business and making a major push into the U.S. market with the opening of a New York office.
While the company has long served clients in the UK, Europe, Bermuda and the US, the move reinforces its commitment to providing hands-on local support to carriers, reinsurers, MGAs and investors.
The company continues to apply its agile strategy approach, which combines detailed market understanding with a practical, end-to-end approach to strategy development, operating model design and technology transformation.
As a unified global firm, Oxbow Partners is ideally positioned to help U.S. clients pursue European opportunities and European clients explore the U.S. market.
New York office welcomes two senior leaders. Manmeet Singh Bawa joins as a partner to lead the U.S. practice, bringing more than a decade of international consulting experience, particularly in modernizing property and casualty insurers’ operating models and driving organic and strategic growth. Mark Purowitz serves as a Senior Advisor with decades of experience in the U.S. and global financial services sectors, with expertise in strategic growth and M&A.
The U.S. team will focus on the areas that have built Oxbow’s reputation: guiding insurance leaders through complex strategic transformations, making rapid and impactful changes to operating models and technology, and assisting investors with commercial due diligence, post-acquisition planning and integration strategies.
“With our new team, we will launch a unique U.S. platform that helps clients grow, modernize their operating models and deliver results,” added partner Chris Sandilands.
Singh Bawa commented: “The U.S. insurance market is at an inflection point. Carriers, reinsurers and MGAs will benefit from expert partners who can combine global insights with local expertise to achieve meaningful strategic transformation.”
Purowitz added: “The team has built an exceptional strategic boutique focused exclusively on specialty insurance. Now it’s time to bring the same value to U.S. insurance companies.”