Professional
Closely-held businesses are the economic engines that strengthen our communities. In the U.S., they create as many as 80 percent of the new jobs and employ more than half of all Americans.*
Helping owners protect the success of their businesses is a privilege and a responsibility that Andy O’Brien and Northwestern Mutual welcome, especially now given the extraordinary challenges owners face.
Your business and personal needs are intertwined – managing business risk, providing competitive employee benefits, protecting personal income and assets, saving sufficient funds for education and retirement, and ensuring the smooth transition of business ownership.
That’s why it’s important to use an integrated approach that explores, prioritizes and addresses all of your concerns . . . not just once but throughout the stages of your business. It’s also important that the person delivering that process has the necessary experience, education and training.
Andy O’Brien’s Experience, Education and Training
Andy is the Director of Estate and Business Planning for The Columns Resource. His mission is to help ensure the success of closely-held businesses by working with the owners and their advisors to explore, prioritize and address business and personal concerns for current and future generations.
B.A, Business Management, Hamline University, magna cum laude, St. Paul, Minnesota
J.D., Hamline University School of Law, cum laude, St. Paul, Minnesota
Association Memberships
Advanced Planning Resources for Your Business
Staffed by attorneys with extensive business planning expertise, the Advanced Financial Security Planning Division in the home office of Northwestern Mutual is unique in the industry.
Available resources include telephone consultation, online legal research and seminars periodically conducted throughout the country.
Andy can arrange teleconferences between your business advisors and one of our attorneys to discuss a particular business need or to review business documents, such as a buy-sell agreement or a benefits plan.
Your business advisors are invited to subscribe to the Advanced Planning Library, a free legal research tool offering in-depth information on estate, business, charitable and retirement planning topics.
Additional Resources to Protect and Grow Your Business
NMBizSolutions explores many of the issues business owners face today. Take a minute to learn how Northwestern Mutual can answer the questions business owners ask each day.
Workers’ Compensation
Provides workers’ compensation news and information for employers, employees, insurers and medical providers.
* U.S. Department of Home Land Security, May 2008
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