Industry: Financial Services

McDermott + Bull’s Financial Institutions Practice works with an array of financial services firms, including investment banks, commercial banks, private banks, credit unions, investment managers, institutional investors, and fintech companies to recruit best in class talent for critical roles. Our boutique approach, coupled with our national reach, allows us to make every search extremely important, and our limited blockage allows us to recruit from a great number of target companies in each region. As a firm, our approach is not to focus on developing a large database so we can retread candidates from one opportunity to the next. On the contrary, every search is treated as a fresh assignment and we perform new candidate identification and research on each search so that we find the best, not just the most well-known or likely candidates for each assignment. Our clients tell us that we bring exceptional candidates into the process that they’ve often never heard about or considered in the past, which brings a fresh perspective to each assignment.
The Financial Institutions Practice is led by industry experts Rod McDermott and Brandon Biegenzahn. Rod is a former corporate banker with Citibank and Security Pacific, and he currently sits on the Board of a community bank based in Southern California. Brandon is a former corporate finance attorney where he represented banks including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Union Bank in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, asset based financing, and real property purchase and sale transactions.
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McDermott + Bull Places Chief Financial Officer, Exchange Bank
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Charlotte Radmilovic as Chief Financial Officer at Exchange Bank. In this role, Charlotte will drive the delivery and optimization of the bank’s financial performance targets through the operation of rigorous controls,...

McDermott + Bull Places Senior Vice President, Business Intelligence and Data Management, SAFE Credit Union
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Marleaux Flournoy as Senior Vice President, Business Intelligence and Data Management at SAFE Credit Union. In this role, Marleaux will serve as a champion for data-based decisions across the enterprise through the leadership...

McDermott + Bull Places Chief Information Officer, Bank of Marin
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Sathis Arasadi as Chief Information Officer at Bank of Marin. In this role, Sathis will be charged with driving the bank’s enterprise-wide digital transformation. Sathis has over 20 years of experience in financial services,...

Financial Services Executive Search: Trending in 2023
2023 has been, to say the least, an interesting time in banking. It's likely that Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short and Money Ball) will write a book about the current state of affairs. So, after a quarter and a half of the year, what have things looked like for...

A Year in Review – 2022 Executive Search by the Numbers
2022 – the Peak and the ValleyFrom a leadership hiring perspective (Senior Vice President-level and above), 2022 represents both the peak of executive leadership demand in Q1 and the return to pre-pandemic levels in Q4. Looking at executive searches across all...

2022 Q2 Executive Search Update – A Candidate’s Market
Demand for executive-level talent continues to rise. Each quarter we are seeing more open searches than we have in the past two years. The supply chain issue in the world of human capital is not backed-up ports, it’s the limited candidate pool which is simply not...

2021 Executive Search by the Numbers – A Year in Review
2021 brought about a massive groundswell of executive-level search activity, caused by the perfect storm of market factors — a nearly immediate halt of economic activity, followed by a rapid rebound, and a shift in leadership competencies needed to succeed in our new...

White Paper: Talent – Demand and Scarcity
The Demand for Talent To state the obvious, the pandemic has brought about tremendous change across the global landscape. The most glaring impact in my world, brokering in executive level talent in financial services, has been the massive demand for talent, and the...

White Paper: Talent Assessment
You may have wondered what talent assessment tools are and how effective they can be in the hiring process. Employers like them because they can reduce the time and cost of recruiting new staff and can result in increased productivity, cost savings, and better...
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