Mr.Flores
is President and CEO of Bretton Woods, Inc, a specialty management
consulting firm serving financial institutions. Mr. Flores also founded
DBW Technologies, LLC, a technology company that developed a client
server/browser based solution for Check 21 remote deposit captureand
ACH check conversion for remote lockbox services for commercial
customers of banks. DBW was sold in 2006 to eImageSolutions, Inc. in
Lexington, KY. He is a strategic partner with Capital Performance
Group in Washington, DC. Professional Experience He
has over 30 years of financial institution experience through his
employment in banking as well as consulting. Mr. Flores’ consulting
work focuses on the areas of strategic planning, strategic technology
planning, payment systems and process improvement and reengineering
through enabling technologies.
Mr. Flores began his banking
career with Citizens & Southern National Bank (now Bank of America)
in Atlanta, Georgia where he held various management positions. From
1981 to 1988 he was Senior Vice President for Bank Earnings
International and responsible for the national strategic planning
practice and for business development and practice management in the
northeastern United States.
In 1988, he founded Bretton
Woods, Inc. and in 1993, he moved his consulting practice to EDS,
Plano, Texas and served as a Principal of its Management Consulting
Services in Europe and Southeast Asia for a two year period.In 1991,
Mr. Flores co-founded Resolution Resources Corporation in Atlanta,
Georgia,an alternative dispute resolution firm and sold the company in
1997. In 1996, Mr. Flores re-activated Bretton Woods, Inc. to focus on
the enabling features of technology in banking to improve revenue and
increase efficiency.
He has testified in Congress and spoken to
industry groups and has authored several studies and articles for
industry publications. He has been a faculty member with Pacific Coast
Banking School in Seattle, Washington where he teaches Technology’s Role in Community Banking curriculum for bankers in the graduate school. Education Mr.
Flores received a BBA in Accounting and Management from the University
of Notre Dame,and also attended the Commercial Lending School at
Georgia State University. He is a Certified Mediator with the Center
for Dispute Resolution, Boulder, Colorado and also with the American
Arbitration Association in Atlanta, Georgia.
COMMERCIAL LENDING,CAPITAL MARKETS, FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE
John
brings a unique perspective to consulting engagements. A former bank
CEO with insightful real world experience, he is also a faculty member
at several major domestic graduate banking schools where he is
continually exposed to the credit processes of banks of all sizes.
Barrickman is also in a unique position to address regulatory concerns
when an institution outgrows its credit process. This perspective
enables customized solutions to credit process issues regardless of the
size, location, risk tolerance and competencies of the organization.
In
addition to the company’s consultancy practice, Barrickman is an
engaging professional presenter with unique insights on industry and
market trends based upon his breadth of expertise and understanding of
banking as a business in an ever changing environment. The company’s in
house training programs are designed to reinforce the client’s lending
philosophy, credit culture, credit process and underwriting guidelines
Barrickman
has taught for various commercial lending schools associated with State
Banking Associations, the Federal Reserve System, RMA, and the American
Bankers Association. Barrickman has also taught for banking institutes
in Kuwait, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, and has
authored curricula on commercial lending used by 14 state commercial
lending schools and curricula used to train banks in Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An award winning regular
contributor to the RMA Journal, he has also co-authored a book entitled
Strategic Credit Risk Management for RMA.
A Kentucky native, he holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Kentucky.
JOHN S. POELKER
CEO, CFO, CAPITAL MARKETS, FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE
John
S. Poelker began his career in 1965 with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co. (KPMG) in St. Louis following his graduation from the University of
Notre Dame and service in the Peace Corps. He served as Chief Financial
Officer of Mercantile Bancorporation in St. Louisfrom 1972 until 1978
when he joined Atlanta’s Citizens & Southern Corporation as Chief
Financial Officer. He served in that position until 1986 when he moved
to San Francisco to become Chief Financial Officer of Bank of America.
He
left B of A in late 1986 andreturned to Atlanta to form his own
consulting firm, Poelker & Associates. His firm merged with Edgar,
Dunn & Co., a San Francisco based consulting firm, in 1990 and he
served as the Managing Partner of the Atlanta office of that firm until
1993. In 1993, he was named Chairman & CEO of Fleet Finance in
Atlanta. After the sale of that consumer finance subsidiary of Fleet
Financial Group in 1996 he moved to Evansville, Indiana where he served
as CFO of American General Finance. In 1998, he joined Old National
Bancorporation (NYSE: ONB) in Evansville as Chief Financial Officer and
served in that position until his retirement in March of 2005.
Areas
of operations most likely to match up with John’s experience would be
those related to financial management and risk control, strategic
planning, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and profitability analysis
and improvement.
CALVIN D. JOHNSON
ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS, ELECTRONIC BANKING, RETAIL BANKING, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING EXPERTISE
Calvin
Johnson has over twenty years of diversified financial service
experience in commercial banks, thrift institutions, and technology
companies in functions such as retail marketing, strategic planning,
product development, financial analysis, market research, systems
design, and project management. He is known as a creative,
results-oriented executive in both line and staff assignments,
possessing superior analytical skills, a high energy level, tenacious
perseverance, and a commitment to quality performance, effective
team-building,and open communications. Mr. Johnson's recent activities
include:
- Designed an integrated Telephone Banking Operation
for a large community bank including Call Center, Voice Response,
Customer Contact Management, and Computer-Telephony Integration Systems
- Designed and installed an Intranet-based Consumer Loan
Decisioning and Fulfillment System for Call Center and Branch Platform
Operations of a multi-billion dollar thrift institution Designed
Browser-based Desk Top Decision Support System for Dealer Finance
Division of a major money center financial institution for installation
- Developed and implemented core consumer banking products and
customer service operations for world’s first totally Virtual Bank
delivering retail banking services over the Internet Managed an
Electronic Banking business unit for large regional bank with
responsibilities for identifying and developing market opportunities
for new sources of fee-based revenues in areas such as ATM Deployment,
Supermarket Banking, and Merchant Services
Johnson holds a BS
degree with Highest Honor in Management Science from Georgia Tech where
he graduated number one in the College of Industrial Management and was
nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. He received his MBA degree in
Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School
of Business where he was a Leon Carroll Marshall Scholar.
Capital Performance Group Strategic Alliance Partner
Mary Beth Sullivan, Managing Partner
Mary Beth leads the firm’s Business Performance Improvement and
Marketing practice areas. Prior to joining CPG, Mary Beth was Senior
Managing Director at Furash & Company and Vice President of Marketing
and Assistant Controller with Chemical Banking Corporation in New
York. Mary Beth has over 18 years of experience in the financial
services industry.
Claude A. Hanley, Jr., Partner Claude leads the firm’s
Regulatory Assistance and Policy Analysis practice area and works
extensively on Business Performance Improvement assignments. Prior to
joining CPG, Claude was Managing Director at Furash & Company,
where he led the firm’s regulatory policy and M&A advisory teams.
Claude has over 20 years of industry experience.
Gary D. Stein, Partner
Gary leads the firm's Distribution Planning practice and works extensively
on Business Performance Improvement assignments. Prior to joining
CPG, Gary was a Principal with Furash & Company, where he managed
the firm's Retail Distribution practice area. Prior to that, Gary
was an Assistant Vice President at Signet Bank in Richmond, Virginia
and a management consultant with both Coopers & Lybrand LLC
and Andersen Consulting. Gary has 16 years of industry experience.