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Jeffrey T. Bowman is chief operating officer Global Property and Casualty Services for Crawford & Company. He is responsible for maximizing consistent delivery of Crawford’s property and casualty operations worldwide and ensuring that Crawford provides standardized business practices and quality service delivery to all of its property and casualty clients. Bowman also oversees business development as it relates to the property and casualty market.
Bowman qualified as an accountant in 1978 and became a Fellow of the Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom in 1983.
In 1982 he joined a United Kingdom public company Esperanza PLC as U.K. finance accountant and became financial director of the Graham Miller Group a subsidiary of Inchcape when Inchcape PLC purchased Esperanza in 1984.
Bowman was part of a team that implemented a management buyout of The Graham Miller Group from Inchcape PLC in 1987.
The Graham Miller Group enjoyed an increase in revenue pre-tax income and global coverage over the next three years and attracted the attention of Crawford & Company which was expanding in the global market. Crawford purchased The Graham Miller Group in December 1990.
From 1991 to 1994 Bowman served as Financial Director for all Crawford's overseas operations. He was involved in various strategic acquisitions in Denmark Peru and the United Kingdom. During this period Crawford's global coverage increased significantly.
In 1995 Bowman moved from London to Crawford's Home Office in Atlanta and was appointed as vice president of International Finance and subsequently named vice president of International Strategic Planning of Crawford's International Group in 1996.
Bowman was a member of the senior management team that executed the merger between Crawford International and The Thomas Howell Group a subsidiary of Swiss Re. He led the integration of The Thomas Howell Group and Crawford International teams in 1996 creating Crawford's International Group.
In 1997 Crawford appointed Bowman to take operational control of Canada the Caribbean and Latin America and in 1998 he managed Crawford's purchase of Adjusters Canada Inc. creating Canada's largest adjusting network.
During 1999 Bowman expanded Crawford's holdings in South America directing the purchase of Peru-based Certiser S.A and opening offices in Ecuador. Most recently he led the acquisition of Brazil's largest independent adjusting firm moving Crawford one step further in supporting the long-term business goals for their worldwide clients in Brazil and Latin America.
In 2001 Bowman was appointed president of Crawford's International operations outside of the United States a position he held until December 31 2005. | 