A seasoned banking executive, Anthony brings a depth of experience in business development, credit underwriting, and real estate investment. He has a proven track record of driving revenue growth through strategic marketing of C&I and Commercial Real Estate loans, as well as deposit and treasury solutions. Known for his expertise in cash flow and credit analysis, structuring and deal negotiation, Anthony consistently delivers solid lending strategies that align with institutional goals of balance sheet growth and profitability within strong parameters of safe and sound banking practices.

Kevin Brand is a partner in the advisory group at Crowe. He specializes in valuation, transaction, and CECL advisory services. Kevin has more than 10 years of experience providing services related to financial diligence, CECL implementation advisory, and current expected credit loss model validation.

Kirk Briden is a bank executive with over thirty years of industry experience. Prior to Banker’s Caddy, Kirk was the Founder, President and CEO of Champion Bank in St. Louis, Missouri. He also served as Executive Vice President of Commercial Banking for Montgomery Bank in St. Louis. His tenure includes managing commercial banking groups at Allegiant Bank, Commerce Bank and Cass Bank. He began his career in the corporate training program at Boatmen’s National Bank.

Briden received an undergraduate finance degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MBA from Washington University’s Olin School of Business with Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He is a recipient of the 2008 St. Louis Business Journal 40 Under 40 award. He is a sports enthusiast, and he especially enjoys golf and travel. He resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Suzi, and has four sons.

As President and CEO of Premier Audit Solutions, Kelly Bruns leads the majority of the company’s credit reviews, as well as oversees client relationships, marketing, and operations.  

Kelly has over 25 years of banking experience with expertise in commercial underwriting, credit administration, relationship management, special assets, ACL methodology, portfolio concentration management, stress testing, executive management, and credit review.  Kelly began her banking career at Wells Fargo Bank in Napa, CA and has since worked at several regional and community banks throughout Northern California.  She has experience working with Boards of Directors, regulators, and various external auditors.  She has been a Commercial Underwriter, Commercial Loan officer, Credit Administration Officer, Special Assets Officer, and a Chief Credit Officer.  Kelly has worked with the Boards of Directors and management of various troubled financial institutions to successfully turn around problem loan portfolios and improve credit administration practices.  She became a Loan Examiner in 2013, working with Restuccia & Harrison, Inc. (now Premier Audit Solutions), hoping to share her experience and insight with community banks to help strengthen credit administration, improve asset quality, and reduce problem credits and loan fraud. 

She has been awarded both a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Risk Management and Insurance, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance from California State University, Sacramento.

David’s extensive experience in the financial industry includes a long and pronounced emphasis on credit risk in a variety of roles that range from bank lender and senior credit officer to co-founder of the successful Credit Risk Management, LLC consultancy and professor at several banking schools. A prolific publisher of credit-focused articles, he is a frequent speaker at trade association forums, where he shares insights gained helping lending institutions evaluate credit risk—in both its traditional, transactional form as well as the risk associated with portfolios based on a more emergent macro strategy. David is an expert in assessing all aspects of the credit process and culture. Over the course of decades, he has led teams providing thousands of loan reviews and performed hundreds of due diligence engagements focused on M&A and capital raising. Most recently he headed the DHG-Credit Risk Management division at the Dixon Hughes Goodman accounting firm. David holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a M.S. from East Carolina University and multiple degrees from the American Bankers Association’s graduate lending schools.

Mr. Ashworth has 27 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 25 years in banking where he was a commercial banking executive for regional and community banks. His bank lending experience includes a variety of commercial loan types (CRE, Construction and Development, C&I, ABL, Leverage Lending, Fund Finance, SBA and Government Guaranteed, and Equipment Finance). More recently he spent more than two years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a specialist bank examiner focusing exclusively on commercial credit, asset quality, and credit risk management in his work with community, complex, and mid-size banks primarily in Southern California, Arizona, Hawaii, and Nevada. Matt is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington and the University of Georgia where he obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Finance. He lives in Long Beach and enjoys running and reading.

Mike Fletcher co-founded Qualtik, Inc. in 2019 and serves as President. Qualtik is a software company that helps community banks around the country improve commercial loan portfolio analysis, stress testing, reporting, loan review, and risk management capabilities.

Prior to joining Qualtik, Mike was co-founder of Giftango, a SaaS company that served several top 20 banks and other notable financial institutions in the US. After InComm acquired Giftango, he led the 150-person Digital Solutions Division of InComm as General Manager for 4 years.

Jesse Gundersheim is a Senior Director of Market Analytics covering Orange County and the Inland Empire in California CoStar Group. Jesse produces insightful analysis of commercial real estate market conditions, guiding brokers, investors, and lenders to informed business decisions. In addition to being a frequent contributor to CoStar News, his research has been published in numerous media outlets, including Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Business Times. Prior to CoStar, Gundersheim led technology industry analytics for Avison Young, the San Francisco research departments at DTZ, now part of Cushman & Wakefield, Studley, now part of Savills and Grubb & Ellis, now a part of Newmark. He began his career at Grubb & Ellis | BRE Commercial in San Diego, now a part of Cushman & Wakefield.

Giulio Camerini is a principal in the consulting group at Crowe. He specializes in commercial loan review and loan portfolio review, commercial real estate credit analysis, and is the co-creator of the Crowe Credit360 for Loan Review Departments software. Giulio has more than 16 years of experience providing credit risk consulting, co-sourced and outsourced loan reviews, and due diligence services in the financial services industry.

Dan Roderick has 40 years of banking experience, both on the inside as a banking executive and from the outside, as a consultant. Prior to joining Strunk, Dan was a senior executive with the U.S. Banking Alliance and Jack Henry & Associates Inc. Previously in his career Dan held management positions with GMAC Bank, now Ally Bank, Equifax, Prudential Bank and Mellon Bank.

Over his career, Dan has helped hundreds of financial institutions improve profitability and implement more disciplined and effective product strategies. He has considerable experience building profitable financial services businesses, developing rational product pricing practices, and implementing product re-pricing and profit improvement initiatives. At Jack Henry, he worked with hundreds of community financial institutions, providing loan and deposit pricing advice and related software that improves banking margins.

Dan received his BSBA in Finance from The Ohio State University and an MBA in Finance from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Michael Flynn is Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Financial Services Regulatory Group, and Chair of its Consumer Financial Services and Mortgage Regulatory Industry Group, and is a member of Buchalter’s Commercial Finance Practice Group. Mr. Flynn applies his unique background as the former Acting General Counsel of HUD, and the former General Counsel of PNC Mortgage and Flagstar Bank, to counsel financial institutions on complex issues related to bank, mortgage and consumer finance regulations, regulator inquiries and examinations, product development, compliance and risk management, secondary market transactions, servicing, FinTech arrangements, vendor management and contracts, SBA and PPP loans and other subjects.  

Mike serves on the Governing Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and is a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, where he is past Chair of the College’s Multifamily, Regulatory and Residential Committee.  He is a member of the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee, and the California Mortgage Bankers Association Legislative Review Committee and its Mortgage Quality and Compliance Committee.  Mike is also a past Chair of the California Lawyers Association Financial Institutions Committee, the California Mortgage Bankers Association Legal Affairs Committee, the American Bar Association Title Insurance Litigation Committee, and a past member of the Colorado Division of Real Estate Forms Committee.