The Marsh Agency has been providing personalized service in the Southern Maine area for over thirty-five years. Founded by Stephen D. Marsh Jr., the agency has developed friendship and trust with our clients for several generations. The Marsh Agency is proud to be a founding member of the Portland Buy Local Independent & Community Alliance.
Whether you are shopping for auto insurance, home, life or business insurance, our highly experienced team of insurance agents can help you find the right coverage at the lowest rate no matter what your needs are.
Our ultimate goal is to create lasting relationships with each of our clients so that we may continue providing excellent service for many years to come. Unlike many of the larger nationwide insurance companies that are out there, all of your information will be kept secure and private.
Our name is trusted throughout the community. To speak directly with an experienced insurance professional, simply give us a call anytime or feel free to utilize any of the interactive tools offered throughout the site. We look forward to working with you.
Our Professional Insurance Team
Wayne G. Nielsen President and Managing Partner
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Mr. Nielsen is the Managing Partner of W.G. Nielsen & Co. and has more than 30 years of investment banking experience. Since 1996, he has specialized in providing customized mergers and acquisitions services for privately held middle-market companies.
Prior to founding W.G. Nielsen & Co., Mr. Nielsen was Executive Vice President of Kirkpatrick Pettis, a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha, where he founded and managed the firm’s Rocky Mountain investment banking operations, including corporate and public finance, retail and institutional sales, trading activities and money management services. Before that, Mr. Nielsen managed United Bank of Denver's investment banking activities.
He began his financial career as a commercial loan analyst with Midland Bank, a Norwest Bank, and then moved to Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. as a portfolio investment analyst.
Mr. Nielsen holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Pacific Union College and an MBA from Webster University.
J. Gregory Karsh Director
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Mr. Karsh joined W.G. Nielsen & Co. in December 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Karsh was a senior associate in the Dallas office of Houlihan Lokey where he was a member of the Financial Opinions & Advisory Services practice. While at Houlihan Lokey, he specialized in fairness and solvency opinions as well as enterprise valuations, tangible and intangible assets valuations, valuations of investments for large private equity groups and other advisory services.
Before Houlihan Lokey, he was a senior associate in the New York office of Standard & Poor’s (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers Corporate Value Consulting and currently Duff & Phelps), where he worked on enterprise valuations, valuations of tangible and intangible assets and other advisory services. Earlier, he was an associate at a boutique investment bank in Denver that focused on M&A advisory services.Mr. Karsh earned his bachelor’s degree in finance with a concentration in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.