Directors Forum
Agenda
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | |
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9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT | Factors Impacting Bank M&A in Today’s Environment Jeff Wishner Managing Director Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Ashwin Kakani Director Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Stephen Gunlock Director Keefe, Bruyette & Woods |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT | 3 Innovative Playbooks for Driving Growth in Business Lending Michael Desimone Vice President of Financial Products Numerated |
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT | Cyber Insurance in the Banking Industry Kent Sasaki Senior Vice President USI Insurance Services Cam Schilling Vice President USI Insurance Services |
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PT | Talent War Michele Gil Managing Partner Chrisman & Company |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PT | Lunch |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT | Regulatory Update Mongkha Pavlick Group Vice President, Supervision + Credit FRBSF |
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PT | Managing the Audit Function in 2022 and Beyond Jeff Clair Partner Moss Adams Derek Criswell Partner Moss Adams |
Thursday, July 21, 2022 | |
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT | New Ideas for Your Old Strategic Plan Philip Smith Chairman and CEO Gerrish Smith Tuck Consultants and Attorneys |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT | Banking Risks Persist in an Uncertain Economic Environment Judy Plock Senior Supervisory Analyst/Senior Risk Specialist FRBSF Chris Grant Senior Risk Specialist FRBSF |
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT | Managing Technology Innovation & Risk Shirish Netke CEO & President Amberoon Inc. |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PT | Lunch |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT | Legislative Update Kevin Gould Executive Vice President, Director of Government Relations California Bankers Association Melanie Cuevas Vice President of Government Relations California Bankers Association Jason Lane Vice President and Deputy Director of Government Relations California Bankers Association |
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PT | 2022 Corporate Governance Update Mark Aldrich Chairman & Founder | Principal Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC Joel Cook Principal Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC |
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM PT | Understanding ALM – for Directors Gary Svec Managing Director, Investment Banking Group Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC |
Jeff Wishner
Managing Director
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Jeffrey J. Wishner is a Managing Director in the San Francisco office at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Mr. Wishner has 25 years of experience advising West Coast banks, thrifts and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions.
Ashwin Kakani
Director
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Ashwin Kakani is a Director in KBW’s Depository Investment Banking Group and is based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ashwin has been with KBW since February 2015 and has significant responsibilities related to executing mergers and acquisitions advisory and capital raising transactions.
Michele Gil
Managing Partner
Chrisman & Company
Michele Andujo Gil is Managing Partner and majority equity owner with more than 25 years of recruiting and management experience at the Los Angeles-based Chrisman & Company, a national executive search consultancy to financial and related industries. She leads the firm’s board of directors practice as well as searches for senior/executive management positions including C-level positions for prominent clients in banking and financial services.
Mongkha Pavlick
Group Vice President, Supervision + Credit
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF)
Mongkha Lu Pavlick serves as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s group vice president in Supervision + Credit. She oversees teams with responsibilities for Formations + Transactions, Consumer Compliance Supervision, Credit Risk Management (“discount window”), and Supervision + Credit’s business and operational support functions.
Jeff Clair
Partner
Moss Adams
Jeff has practiced public accounting since 1988 and has served as the lead audit partner for numerous financial institutions and SEC reporting companies. He was previously a partner at a regional accounting firm specializing in providing services to financial institutions and served in the internal audit department of an $18 billion dollar institution where he led the bank’s implementation of FDICIA.
Derek Criswell
Partner
Moss Adams
Derek has practiced public accounting since 1999. He’s the Firm’s Northern California Financial Services Regional Industry Group Leader responsible for leading the Firm’s Financial Institution, Consumer & Specialty Finance and Asset Management/Broker Dealer practices in Northern California. Derek is the lead audit partner for various financial institutions and SEC-reporting company audits ranging from de novo institutions, to multibillion-dollar institutions. Services he provides include financial statement and integrated audits, SEC filings, registration statements, credit reviews, internal control evaluations, due diligence, and board of director training.
Philip Smith
Chairman and CEO
Gerrish Smith Tuck Consultants and Attorneys
Mr. Smith is the President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Memphis-based law firm of Gerrish Smith Tuck, PC, and its affiliated bank consulting firm, Gerrish Smith Tuck Consultants, LLC. Mr. Smith’s legal and consulting practice places special emphasis on bank mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, acquisition and ownership planning for boards of directors, strategic planning for boards of directors, regulatory matters, bank holding company formations and use, securities law concerns, new bank formations, S-corporations, going private transactions, trust preferred securities and other matters of importance to banks and financial institutions.
Judy Plock
Senior Risk Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF)
Judy Plock is a Senior Risk Specialist in the Reserve Bank’s Risk Management Unit. Judy has over 28 years of experience in banking supervision, including more than 11 years with the SF Fed and 17 years with the FDIC. In her current role, she co-authors SF Fed’s First Glance 12L and performs ad hoc and recurring financial analyses on community and regional banks and holding companies. While with the FDIC, she spent 8 years performing macro analyses of emerging risks and 9 years examining community and regional institutions. She was also an instructor for the FDIC’s Loan Analysis School. Judy is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, a commissioned examiner, and a CFA charter holder.
Chris Grant
Senior Risk Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF)
Chris Grant is a senior risk specialist at the San Francisco Fed. He supports the Fed’s mission to promote the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking system by assessing the potential effects of regional economic conditions on banking risk in the western states. Prior to working at the Fed, Chris rated local government debt as an analyst at S&P Global Ratings, and before that he worked on international economic and financial policy at the U.S. Treasury. He holds master’s degrees in public administration and international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
Kevin Gould
Executive Vice President, Director of Government Relations
California Bankers Association
Kevin Gould joined the California Bankers Association (CBA) in 2004, bringing with him more than seven years of legislative experience. In his role as executive vice president and director of state government relations, he oversees the management and operation of CBA’s state and federal government relations department and also serves as one of CBA’s three registered lobbyists. Gould’s advocacy responsibilities and issues focus mainly in the areas of bank operations, commercial lending, residential property lending, and wealth and asset management issues.
Melanie Cuevas
Vice President of Government Relations
California Bankers Association
Melanie Cuevas serves as the vice president of government relations for the California Bankers Association, where her advocacy portfolio focuses mainly on issues related to cannabis, debt collection, labor and employment, political reform, privacy, and agricultural, student and military lending.
Jason Lane
Vice President and Deputy Director of Government Relations
California Bankers Association
Jason Lane is vice president and deputy director of government relations for the California Bankers Association and manages California state tax policy for the association, which involves analyzing legislation and regulatory activity, and the development of policy positions for the association. Lane is one of three lobbyists at CBA and, in addition to his primary focus on taxation, he also lobbies on behalf of the association on issues related to the state budget, and consumer lending legislation. Lane has significant expertise in handling legislative issues including taxation, data security, identity theft, and housing.
Mark Aldrich
Chairman & Founder
Principal
Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC
Mr. Aldrich is a principal of the law firm of Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC, specializing in financial institution regulatory issues, commercial lending and corporate and securities matters. Mr. Aldrich actively advises California financial institutions, including both commercial banks and credit unions, their boards of directors and audit committees. Mr. Aldrich is part of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group which includes commercial lending and corporate securities. Mr. Aldrich has also handled bank formations, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions, as well as bank regulatory and enforcement matters. Mr. Aldrich was the Course Instructor for the California Bankers Association Director Certification Program for 14 years. He is also the Chairman and Founder of the firm.
Joel Cook
Principal
Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC
Mr. Cook is a principal of Aldrich & Bonnefin, PLC, and has been with the firm since 2011. Mr. Cook manages the firm’s Corporate Practice Group which includes commercial lending and corporate securities law. Mr. Cook regularly advises financial institutions and their boards of directors on various matters, including corporate governance issues, commercial lending matters, contracts and bank regulatory matters. He frequently speaks at events in the financial industry, including Bankers’ Compliance Group® events. Mr. Cook is a member of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association. He led the OCBA’s Banking & Lending Section as its Chair for 2018, having previously served as its Vice-Chair and Treasurer.
Gary Svec
Managing Director, Investment Banking Group
Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC
Gary combines his financial institution background in accounting, taxes, regulatory compliance and operations to be a team leader in total balance sheet analysis and a regular contributor on numerous financial institution issues affecting the clients of Performance Trust. He is a featured speaker at numerous banking, insurance and professional conferences and seminars throughout the United States.
Factors Impacting Bank M&A in Today’s Environment
KBW will describe the bank M&A environment and the factors impacting the pace of activity, including the economic backdrop, regulatory considerations, and the competitive environment for transactions.
Talent War
The war on talent has always existed; however, with the expanding financial world facing events like Covid-19, the Great Reshuffle, and significant technological advances, navigating the talent war requires the board to take a closer look at their organization, its strategies, and the talent needed to achieve those goals.
Regulatory Update
Join us to hear from Mongkha Pavlick as she shares the latest “top of mind” issues that the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeing in supervision for Community and Regional Banks, as well emerging areas that we’re keeping a watch on.
Managing the Audit Function in 2022 and Beyond
During this session, we will revisit the role of the audit function and the related responsibilities of audit committee members, considering the changing economic conditions. We will discuss the risks and penalties of an ineffective audit function and share best practices and key emerging issues that audit committee members need to know as they help navigate their institutions in 2022 and beyond.
New Ideas for Your Old Strategic Plan
Does your board and management team hate strategic planning? If so, that is probably because the process has become mundane, the process may get lost in an esoteric discussion that has no practical implications, or it may devolve into a mere budgeting process. This session will focus on new ideas on how to refresh your strategic planning process and outline the core fundamental areas that should be covered.
Banking Risks Persist in an Uncertain Economic Environment
The session will provide a high-level overview of economic and banking conditions in the West. It will leverage observations described in the SF Fed’s First Glance 12L publication for 1Q22.
Legislative Update
Hear from Kevin Gould, Melanie Cuevas, and Jason Lane from the California Bankers Association as they provide their Legislative Update.
2022 Corporate Governance Update
In this presentation, we will address the current corporate governance developments that directors should be considering, including the following topics:
- Board diversity and inclusion developments, including the status of California board diversity laws and recent court decisions
- Climate risk and proposed regulatory disclosures
- Lessons learned from remote board meetings, shareholder meetings and examinations
- What directors need to know now about regulatory governance expectations
Understanding ALM – for Directors
We receive ALM reports every quarter but do we really understand them? Were you surprised by the impact of this recent interest rate volatility? Should we have been surprised? In this session, Gary will briefly cover how to review ALM reports and understand interest rate risks, suggest what questions should be asked of management and how to measure risk vs. reward regarding balance sheet decisions.
Pricing
One Registration Fee, Unlimited Attendees per Organization
Pricing For | Price |
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WB Bank Member | $495 per bank |
Bank Non-Member | $695 per bank |
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2022 Directors Forum Group Registration Sheet
Cancellation Policy
Registration fees less a $75 processing fee per registrant will be refunded if cancellation is received by Friday, June 17, 2022. No refund if cancellations are received after Friday, June 17, 2022. Substitutions welcomed.
CPE Credits
The 2022 Directors Forum has been approved for 10 CPE credits.
The Western Bankers is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.
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