John L. Ward founded Cincinnatus Partners as a Cincinnati-based private equity firm specializing in the insurance industry. John L. Ward has over 30 years of experience in the insurance and financial services industry. He previously served as Senior Partner and head of the U.S. Financial Services Industry Consulting Practice at Deloitte & Touche. In this capacity, he served as lead consulting partner to several prominent buy-out firms and advised them in their efforts to make large private equity investments in the financial services industry.
John Ward also has a demonstrated track record as a successful entrepreneur. He launched an insurance services start-up business in the early 1990s and sold it to a privately-held company eight years later. The business provided benchmarking, best practices and management consulting services to over 350 property-casualty and life-annuities insurance companies throughout the U.S. and Canada.
John Ward has extensive insurance industry experience and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Insurance, Fortune Magazine and other sources as an authoritative insurance industry expert. He has also presented at numerous insurance industry conferences, trade association meetings and CEO roundtables. He has been actively involved in the evaluation of over 100 potential private equity investments in insurance distribution and insurance services firms over the past four years.
