Maureen Clark, a Senior Associate Consultant at RLR Management Consulting, Inc., has over 30 years of experience in financial institution management including the roles of Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer. She has extensive experience in executive and project management roles with Mergers and Acquisitions, system conversions, technology, and operations.

Maureen possesses the following core competencies:

• Extremely strong leadership and team development ensuring stakeholder engagement and success in the execution of companywide projects.

• Extensive vendor management experience, creating a collaborative partnership while ensuring that the bank’s requirements and contractual obligations are met.

• Management of integration and transition activities associated with large scale projects such as mergers and acquisitions and core banking conversions. This includes integrating technology and culture, while ensuring compliance and achieving operational standards and efficiencies.

• Very strong communication skills at all levels from the front line to the board.

• Proactive management of audit and regulatory compliance, as well as successful remediation of post exam findings.

• Identification of process improvements and efficiencies.

• Strategic planning and execution, budgets and reorganizations.

Her experience includes:

• Recent management of three system conversions in one year as part of a multibank acquisition across multiple states.

• Managed or had the lead role in over 20 acquisitions, both as the acquirer and the seller. Developed acquisition due diligence questionnaires. Managed individual branch sales and RTC/FDIC transactions.

• Member of an executive team that successfully grew a bank from 107 million to 1.8 billion within a 2 year period. Responsible for system integrations, standardization of policies and procedures, product conversions, and employee retention.

• Hired in as CIO to manage aftermath of an Information Technology (IT) forensics investigation and remediated IT related findings in a regulatory order.

• RFP development, vendor selection and contract negotiation for core banking platforms, and ancillary systems including accounting, loan origination, Internet banking, call center, SBA, network and information technology solutions.

• Contract negotiation and management, achieving significant cost saves in tracking auto renewals and forcing renegotiations. Reduction of expenditures achieved through management of service agreements, vendor obligations and timelines.

• Management of administrative business units, Information Technology, Deposit Operations, Loan Operations, Security and Facilities.

• Development and standardization of policies and procedures for information technology/security and operations.

• Chairman of the Information Technology Steering Committee, Director of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, member of ALCO and Risk and Compliance Committees.