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 Lending Officer, Valley Strong Credit Union
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Chuck Smith as the Chief Lending Officer at Valley Strong Credit Union. Chuck will be charged with overseeing a 72-person team and driving Valley Strong’s overall consumer lending philosophy, overseeing all consumer lending...
McDermott + Bull Places Head of the Sponsor Finance Division, California Bank of Commerce
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Larry LaCroix as the Manager of the Sponsor Finance Division at California Bank of Commerce. Larry will be tasked with developing the Sponsor Finance business for the bank. Larry brings nearly 30 years of commercial lending...
McDermott + Bull Places Director of Internal Audit, Washington Trust Bank
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Johanne Lapointe as the Director of Internal Audit for Washington Trust Bank. Johanne will be with leading the internal audit team in the strategic development and execution of the risk-based, integrated audit plan for the...
2020 State of the Market for Executive Hiring
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Cautious optimism seems to be the consensus among our firm’s clients heading into 2020. Although some pundits are predicting a dramatic and near-term market correction, supporting data is decidedly mixed. Changes in expectations...
Diversity + Inclusion: A Business Imperative
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Diversity & Inclusion (also known as D&I; or Inclusion & Diversity) have been buzzwords within corporate circles for years. No longer are these simply catch phrases, but instead are now business imperatives. Put...
2019 State of the Market
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE In preparing this State of the Market for 2019, I revisited my 2017 and 2018 editions. I found that in each I used the word “optimism” in my first sentence to describe our sentiments towards the market. Our optimism remains, but...
The Executive Interview (A Roadmap Part II)
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Preface – As we shared in the preface to part I of this two-part article, we are distilling the executive interview process. We have prepared this article in two parts in order to compartmentalize the different components of the...
The Executive Interview ( A Roadmap)
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Preface – Allow me to provide a quick preface to this article. Over the course of our next few quarterly distributions, we will be distilling the executive interview process. Due to the many variables within any given executive...
Trend: Enterprise Risk Management is Real
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund management firm, famous for its quantitative trading approach and its belief, supposedly borne out by its risk models that said it was taking minimal risk, collapsed in the late 1990s....
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