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 Associate General Counsel, Patelco Credit Union
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Coty Hylton as Associate General Counsel at Patelco Credit Union. Coty will oversee a team of three vendor management specialists while establishing and maintaining strong relationships with the organization’s outside vendors....

McDermott + Bull Places Vice President of Total Rewards, SAFE Credit Union
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Michael Knitter as Vice President of Total Rewards at SAFE Credit Union. Michael will be responsible for developing a competitive and progressive value proposition philosophy and strategy for the organization. He will...

McDermott + Bull Places Director of Wescom University, Wescom Credit Union
McDermott + Bull has successfully placed Michael Ayulo as Director of Wescom University at Wescom Credit Union. Michael will bring tremendous value to the credit union by planning, coordinating, and directing personnel training and development programs, ensuring that...

White Paper: Corporate Culture
CORPORATE CULTURE I recently came across a photo on LinkedIn that made me smile. It was of a senior executive I had placed at a Goldman Sachs company having dinner with his wife and two other couples. His caption read:What immediately struck me about the photo was...

White Paper: Executive Coaching Explained
EXECUTIVE COACHING: ENHANCING LEADERSHIP CAPACITYYou may have seen a profile of Professor Brené Brown on CBS’s 60 Minutes in March. She has spent her career studying vulnerability in human behavior and emotion and applies that research to relationships, parenting, and...
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...
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