William J. McGuire, Ph.D., President and CEO
Bill founded MPS in 1995 bringing over 20 years of industry experience to assessing IRR and enhancing balance sheet performance. He provides strategic direction, product development and technical expertise to the firm. As a former senior vice president with ALM model vendor Sendero Corporation, he headed their client services group. While a vice president at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, Bill managed an IRR and CRA reports service bureau and was a lead member of the team that designed Thrift Bulletin 13 (TB-13), the path breaking thrift IRR regulation. He also has 10 years university teaching experience. Bill is a frequent speaker at industry forums and has published extensively.
Richard G. Sheehan, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research
Senior Vice President of Research with MPS and Professor of Finance and Business Economics at Notre Dame University. Rich has over twenty years of university teaching experience in economics and finance and served as a senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is widely published in areas of applied econometrics and financial sector relationships. His current areas of research include modeling and statistically quantifying indeterminate balance sheet behaviors, applications of financial concepts in the banking sector, and the economics of sports industries.
Linda Peck, Chief Operating Officer
Linda provides project management, marketing and production support and operational oversight for accounting, human resources and information technology functions for MPS. She brings over 15 years of experience in marketing research, decision support and project management from prior employment at the Dial Corp. and A.C. Nielsen.
Jeff Wildenthaler, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Jeff joined MPS in 2007 and manages sales and marketing functions, in addition to client relationships in the Northeast, Southwest and West Coast. With over 25 years of financial institution experience, Jeff began his career at National City Bank in Cleveland with a focus on small business lending. This was followed by twelve years at Sendero Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, with focuses on interest rate risk and profitability measurement and management. Jeff extended his career in financial services by providing financial planning and wealth management solutions for banks, insurance companies and brokerage firms while leading sales at Financial Profiles, Kettley Publishing and eMoney Advisor.
Elaine Halliday, Vice President, Sales
Elaine joined MPS in 2009 and is the relationship manager for clients in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern regions. Previously, she was a Group Operations and Sr. Finance Manager at Bank of America where she managed operations and financial management of the Card division’s collateral and fulfillment areas. Additionally, Elaine was with Fiserv (IPS-Sendero) for approximately ten years in a number of roles including Client Services, Training and Technical Support, Sales, and Marketing.
Trina LaRocco, Vice President, Sales
Trina is relationship manager for community banks and credit unions at MPS. Before joining MPS in 2011, she she sold for asset liability management software and accounting services. She was region manager and consultant for IPS-Sendero (Fiserv) for over six years. Ms. LaRocco began her career at Price Waterhouse, working in mergers and acquisitions and audit groups.
Ken Hunt, Senior Vice President, Production
Ken manages MPS deposit and loan analyses, FAS-related services and provides data management and programming expertise for automation of data inputs, data manipulation, report presentation and internal processes. He brings over twenty years of experience in financial analysis, ad hoc management reporting, database construction and accounting procedures. Prior to joining MPS in 1999, Ken was a financial accountant with Harleysville Insurance Companies, where he created management information systems for management/ financial reporting as well as budget and expense reporting and analysis. Ken also was a manager at Progress Federal Savings Bank, working in both branch offices and home office departments including credit analysis, construction lending and finance.
Jennifer Gage, Vice President, Consulting
Jen manages model validations for Fiserv A/L. Prior to joining MPS in 2003, she spent nearly 10 years at Marquette Bank, beginning as an assistant branch manager and progressing to a senior financial analyst and regional finance officer. Jen managed the Northern Region Finance Group, and had responsibility for profit planning, forecasting and monthly financials. She played an integral role in the design and implementation of the bank’s profitability systems and management reporting packages, and supported the ALCO and pricing committees.
Beth Doering, Senior Vice President, Consulting
Beth manages model validations for PROFITstar, Farin Foresight, Darling, FinPro, Plansmith, QRM, BancWare, ZM, and Fiserv A/L and Vantage models. Prior to joining MPS in 2005, she worked for ProfitStars for over six years in customer support, moving ultimately to Director of Training. Beth was also an internal auditor for First National Bank in Omaha, and a Credit Union examiner for the State of Iowa.
Madonna Ritter, Vice President, Consulting
Madonna manages MPS verification audits for PROFITstar and Farin Foresight ALM models. Prior to joining MPS in 2006, she was Vice President of Client Services at ProfitStars, and in her 13 year tenure there worked in areas of client education, e-learning, conference training and consulting.
Lance Tedrow, Vice President, Consulting
Lance manages MPS verification audits for Fiserv A/L and PROFITstar ALM models. Prior to joining MPS in 2007, he was a Treasury Analyst at Sterling Savings Bank for 7 years, where he implemented and maintained their ALM model and provided support to ALCO.
Katerina Tsiguelnitskaia Steinberg, Vice President, Consulting
Katerina manages model validations for SunGard Ambit BancWare ALM models. Prior to joining MPS in 2006, she was a Vice-President for Treasury Services at USTrust and a Client Services Manager for SunGard BancWare.
Dan O'Neill, Vice President, Consulting
Dan manages model validations for Fiserv A/L models. Prior to joining MPS in 2011, he spent many years at IPS-Sendero (Fiserv) in a variety of roles including product management, development, customer support, and model implementation. Dan began his 30 year career in banking at AMCORE Financial and Lincoln National, where he served on ALCO and worked in investments and ALM.
Dave Dunbar, Vice President, Financial Analysis
Dave provides support for MPS deposit, loan and FAS-related services. He has more than seven years experience in ALM and finance. Dave automated financial reporting and developed loan pricing models, loan losses measurement, overnight cash balance monitoring, and non maturity deposit decay/interest rate sensitivity forecasting processes in his banking and consulting career. Prior to joining MPS in 2011, he held finance and ALM positions at Local Government FCU and First State Bank of the Florida Keys. He was a senior financial analyst at Partners FCU and Downey Savings & Loan.
Stephanie Huang, Senior Financial Analyst
Stephanie produces client reports for MPS Smart Ramps© and core deposit index services and supporting analysis for MPS deposit, loan and FAS valuation services. She has 10 years of experience in financial analysis, auditing and accounting. Prior to joining MPS in 2011, she worked at BDO Seidman, LLP as an Assurance Associate, auditing financials for a variety of industries. She also held financial analyst positions in several manufacturing firms in China, preparing annual budget, investment spending, rolling forecast and variance analyses.
Conan Kelly, Senior Data Analyst
Conan provides programming and database management to support MPS deposit, loan and FAS-related services. He prepares client data for forecasting and analysis and automation of MPS internal proceses.