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Lending Executive and Finance Leader

Founded in 1934 and currently in its third generation of family ownership, Firstrust is a privately-held bank with assets of $2.5 billion. Safe and Sound for more than 78 years, Firstrust is a Small Business Administration (SBA) preferred lender, and provides both retail and commercial services through its 22 banking offices located in Bucks, Burlington, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. Continuing to meet the needs of its customers, Firstrust offers a wide variety of deposit products, consumer and business loan options, residential and commercial real estate mortgages and cash-management products.

Senior Manager, commercial lending and specialty finance leader since 1990 with significant business development, risk management, strategic planning and organizational development experience. Managed organizations to maintain an edge in execution, ensuring that the team is productive and enthusiastic while engaging internal and external communities around it.Currently, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Firstrust Bank with primary operational focus on the regulated and unregulated subsidiaries and affiliates of Firstrust and the family office. Developing strategic business partnerships, generating alternative investment approaches and roadmaps for revenue growth while optimizing the use of resources to achieve the highest level of profitability.Previously Director of Asset Strategies for WSFS Bank responsible for strategy to restructure and reduce the company's adversely-graded commercial loan portfolio and help implement policy to improve the overall hygiene of the commercial loan business. Coordinating all activities on a strategic level to provide recommendations to Executive Management and the Board of Directors to reduce fundamental weaknesses in the Bank's credit/loan policies. Prior to WSFS, a Senior Vice President, Market Director in Commercial Term Lending (Chase/WaMu) with strategic, financial, and operational responsibility for multi-family and commercial term lending in the Eastern United States. Prior to this role held leadership positions in the Commercial Deposit Services division and Specialty Finance division. Prior to Washington Mutual for nine years was with CoreStates Bank (which eventually rolled up to Wells) in the Specialty Finance lending division. Graduated Drexel University cum laude, been recognized for my commercial lending leadership and was named as one of '40 under 40' in the May, 2003 Philadelphia Business Journal.