I founded OuterBridge in 2018, in Atlanta, because I could not find the firm I would have hired for myself.
Across the carrier, risk analytics, advisory, and brokerage sides of our industry, I have worked inside good firms staffed by capable people doing real work. But the way these firms are built often puts distance between how they define success and the outcome the client is actually paying for. I wanted to close that distance by building a firm whose incentives, work product, and definition of success line up end to end with what the client hires us to deliver, and by bringing a level of clarity and rigor to risk decisions that I had not consistently found elsewhere in the middle-market commercial space.
Most firms in our industry measure success in revenue, headcount, and account retention. OuterBridge was formed and exists in order to deliver on three outcomes that we measure ourselves on:
1. The margin our clients recover by operating a more efficient risk program.
2. The employee and public lives our clients save, measured against their industry’s average.
3. The professional and personal development of our team.
We are committed to a boutique operating model because we believe it is the only operating model that lets us serve those three missions honestly. Larger firms have to answer to the pressures of their own stakeholders — shareholders, partners, and growth targets that compete with the client’s interests. A boutique can choose its clients, choose its scope, and put the same senior people on the work the client was sold.
We work with companies across a wide range of industries, and we have built specialized knowledge, sector-specific data, and dedicated engagement architecture for four:
• Wholesale Distribution
• Multifamily Housing
• CRE Leasing
• Golf Course and Club Operations
Each of these practices brings sector-specific loss patterns, regulatory context, and program design choices into the analytical method we apply across the firm.
We do not begin engagements with insurance products. We begin with the question your CFO and CEO already ask about every other capital decision in the business: what is the case, what does it cost, what does it recover, and how does it move the enterprise. Our Risk AFE methodology is how we answer that question for risk.
OuterBridge is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Advisory engagements begin under a signed engagement letter that defines scope, deliverables, and the standard of care.
If you believe the way risk decisions are made inside your company could do more for the enterprise than it does today, we invite the conversation.
Principal and Founder
OuterBridge Risk Advisors, LLC
Travis is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Risk Management and Insurance program and holds the Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation. Before founding OuterBridge, he spent over fifteen years across the carrier (The Hanover Insurance Group), risk analytics (ISO), advisory, and brokerage sides of commercial property and casualty. He is currently president-elect of Southeastern Network Agencies.