On March 15, Criteria officially presented its services to the Argentine market, as well as the establishment of its new office in the country (which also offers services in Antarctica), led by its partner and Criteria ‘s Director in Argentina, Nicolas A. Granchelli and its fantastic team of professionals.

The event, which took place at the Centro Naval de Buenos Aires, with the presence of the Spanish Ambassador to Argentina. (Ms. Maria Jesús Alonso Jiménez), the Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Spanish Embassy in Spain (Antonio Sánchez Bustamante), the Commercial Attaché (María del Mar Serrano García) and Criteria representatives Álvaro Montoya (founding partner of Criteria) and Pedro Antonio González (Commercial and Development Director).

The meeting also brought together Criterias other directors, such as Luis J. Vicentini (Director of America), Ivonne Leal (USA Manager), Julio Vásquez (Dominican Republic Director), Guillermo Signoret (Mexico Director), Nicolás A. Granchelli (Argentina Director), and Roberto Wagner Pérez da Silva and Leomar Junior Davi (Brazil Office Directors).

The day began with a very interesting and well-attended seminar on the following topics The Aviation Casualty, given by our Director of the Americas and Global Head of Aviation, Engineer Luis J. Vicentini, and aimed at Criteria Argentina’s Marine, Aviation, CR, Property and Engineering teams.

Criteria would like to thank both the organizers and attendees of the event, as well as the main players in the Argentine insurance market, with whom we had the opportunity to meet during our visit to the country. Some of these companies have already expressed their satisfaction at having started operating with Criteria:

• Insurance Employers Federation
• Nación Seguros
• Holando Insurance
• Sancor Seguros
• SanCor Health
• Argentine Medical Institute
• Marsh
• Starr
• Dignan Insurance
• Binary
• Osde Group
• Integrity
• SMG Insurance
• Galeno Insurance
• Paraná Insurance

We would also like to give special thanks to the companies La Holando and Chubb for their kindness in attending our visit. It was a pleasure to meet you.

Thank you all for your warm welcome. We are sure that this is the beginning of a fantastic work that will mark the success of this operation, a new milestone in our main objective of consolidating our engineering and expert services in the Americas.

The next step: the Paraguayan insurance market, whose representatives we also had the opportunity to meet at the meeting. Undoubtedly, this is another important challenge to be met as part of our expansion plan.