Mary Kay Schneider
With over 35 years of experience in the banking industry, Mary Kay is a highly-skilled consultant focused on helping financial institutions increase revenues and reduce risk. She is a proven leader and effective communicator who develops and engages high-performing teams and builds relationships with a diverse range of internal and external partners. Mary Kay has a strong record of driving growth, increasing productivity, reducing costs, and managing risk. She has held the positions of SVP, EVP and Director managing the following areas: small business banking, commercial banking, wealth management sales, commercial credit and operations, and risk management.
Relevant Experience
- Founded a national team delivering sales enablement on targeted industries to enable greater acquisition, retention and expansion of small business relationships.
- Created industry training events for employees resulting in 75% increase in attendance; curated a larger volume of client-facing industry content (articles, webinars, whitepapers) resulting in higher click rates.
- Led underwriting and fulfillment team of 280 professionals in 4 states for business banking, which led the bank to become the 3rd largest PPP lender.
- Implemented new credit policies, procedures, role changes and technology to handle a 32% increase in loan originations without an increase in staff, and reduced cycle times by 36%.
- Achieved overall risk tolerance limits for a multi-billion loan portfolio and improved controls, leading to satisfactory credit and operational risk audits.