Clint possesses more than 17 years of experience assisting financial institutions in transforming their enterprise risk governance and strategy to achieve net income increases; realize cost efficiencies; remediate self-identified risks and regulatory findings; and design, build, and streamline leading enterprise risk organizations across the three lines of defense.

To achieve the highest returns on your organizational transformation, get comfortable being uncomfortable. ”

About Clint

Clint provides enterprise risk expertise in the financial services industry and leads teams that assess and review various risk functions for audit and advisory clients. He has experience in organizational optimization, risk governance frameworks, portfolio management, credit risk strategies, operational risk, identifying regulatory issues, internal audits, and assessing risk appetite. He has performed target operating model assessments, audit exams, and implementations of strategic initiatives in over 30 institutions ranging from global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) to banks with over $5 billion in assets.

Throughout his career, Clint has:

• Served as the financial adviser for debtor’s counsel for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a financial services holding company. Responsibilities included reviewing documentation, interviewing select senior leadership and directors, and providing specialist knowledge and assessments to ascertain actions, timelines, roles, and responsibilities of the bank against regulatory guidance, expectations, and leading industry practices.
• Engaged as chief of staff and enterprise risk specialist at a large regional bank to establish an appropriate risk governance organization, including frameworks, policies, procedures, and resource optimization using the three lines of defense model. With approximately $20 billion in assets, the bank grew to $47 billion and participated in a successful merger within five years.
• Led assessments of the risk functions for multiple clients, including top global banking institutions, identifying opportunities for optimal governance structures, enhancing controls, completing risk rating process evaluations, identifying potential regulatory issues, developing turnaround strategies, and completing an independent review of consumer and wholesale loan files.
• Led a problem loan management and risk rating gap assessment for a large national bank, creating and presenting training seminars that became standard across the organization, influencing turnaround strategies and risk assessments.
• Advised on the entire credit life cycle at multiple clients, including risk appetite statements through underwriting policies to risk rating methodologies, both single and dual rating frameworks, and current expected credit losses (CECL) models.

Prior to joining Huron, Clint served as director of enterprise risk governance and strategy at PwC. He also served as the PwC experience leader for Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville, leading over 3,000 professionals. Within the financial services industry, he held the role of assistant vice president of the special assets division at SunTrust Bank (now Truist Bank) and held multiple roles at Regions Bank in special assets and commercial and residential real estate.

Clint earned his Master of Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies from Washington and Lee University.

Clint is a member of the Risk Management Association.