Ed Bowler Email Address

Chief Financial Officer and Amp; Senior VP-Corporate Development

USI Corporation is a full service, expert storage and backup solutions provider offering state-of-the-art networked storage technology, including SAN and NAS. Because we recognize that access to information is vital to your company's success, we've developed strategic partnerships with the leading storage industry manufacturers. Each of our hardware and software products has been carefully chosen to maximize data availability, system performance and business value. Through our expertise, products and total solution approach, USI Corporation provides the maximum advantage.

Mr. Bowler has extensive experience in all finance functions (capital management, financial reporting, accounting, treasury, tax, audit, and financial planning/analysis) as well as acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic joint ventures. In addition, he has provided guidance and leadership to Boards of Directors and Senior Executive groups around business strategy and execution. Since 1988, Mr. Bowler has worked for three middle-market national insurance brokerage firms (American Business Insurance, Acordia, and USI Insurance). During his tenure in the insurance brokerage industry, he completed 300+ acquisitions, 50+ divestitures, 20+ strategic joint ventures, a $200 million leveraged term loan in 1999 (the term loan represented the first issued syndicated non-investment grade term loan in the history of the insurance brokerage industry), a $90 million initial public offering of common stock in 2002 (the second IPO in the insurance brokerage industry in the last 20 years), a $165 million secondary offering of common stock in 2004, a $1.4 billion value go-private transaction with Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in 2007 ($550 million leveraged term loan and a $400 million high yield bond; the $400 million bond represented the second issued non-investment grade bond in the history of the insurance brokerage industry), and a $2.4 billion value private equity to private equity transaction in 2012 from Goldman Sachs Capital Partners to Onex ($1.0 billion leveraged term loan and a $630 million high yield bond).