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Risk Layering Consultants, LLC is an expert team of associates with a broad range and depth of experience. Engagement teams are selected based upon the needed skill sets for specific and complex risk management projects. Our Managing Directors are listed herein.

Jeff Puchalski

Jeff Puchalski has served as an Executive Vice President with Citi Residential Lending, ACC Capital Holdings, and City National Bank over the past 12 years. His responsibilities included systemic risk management, financial analyses, regulatory compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Six Sigma process improvement, mergers and acquisitions, asset divestitures, foreign exchange, cash management, and lending. Jeff was also a Principal with The Secura Group, a Washington, D.C. based financial consulting firm for 4 years. He began his career as a National Bank Examiner with the Comptroller of the Currency reporting to the Multinational Bank Supervision Division; in this role he was a Voting Team Leader for the Shared National Credit Review Program and a member of the Capital Markets and Treasury Activities Committee, focusing on derivatives. He has an Economics BA/Mathematical Statistics Minor from the University of California at San Diego and holds Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and Chartered Financial Analyst certificates.

Stephen Lane

Stephen Lane has over 35 years of commercial banking, M&A, and equity and mezzanine investment experience.  Mr. Lane is a Founder and President of LVIR Investors, formerly Dime Capital Partners, the mezzanine lending and equity investment subsidiary of the Dime Savings Bank, a multi-billion dollar financial institution.  Prior to forming DCP in 1998, Mr. Lane headed First Fidelity Private Capital (“FFPC”), the direct equity/mezzanine investment unit of First Fidelity Bancorporation, which was purchased by First Union Corporation (now Wachovia).  In addition to heading the equity investment unit, Mr. Lane headed First Fidelity’s (subsequently First Union’s) SBA Lending and Community Development Lending and Investment Groups, originating over $500 million in loans and $100 million in tax credit investments.  Prior to heading FFPC, Mr. Lane headed the mergers and acquisitions due diligence team for First Fidelity Bancorporation, then the nation’s 25th largest banking institution.  Before joining First Fidelity, Mr. Lane was employed by the United States Comptroller of the Currency, where he worked for seventeen (17) years and became the Senior Regulator for Highly Leveraged Transactions.  Mr. Lane is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds both a BS and an MBA from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

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