M+A and Strategic Advisory services focused on the (re)insurance industry for 40 years. Prior to Bentley he was a managing director in the Financial Institutions Groups at Willis Towers Watson, Banc of America Securities, Credit Suisse, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He has handled over 55 merger and acquisition transactions and 75 capital raising transactions involving (re)insurance companies during his career. While at DLJ and Credit Suisse advised on eight merchant banking investments (and countless rejections of other opportunities); DLJ's merchant banking investments returned over three times cash.