Eugene H. (Hil) Cassell, Jr.
*** ********* ****, **********, ** 27023
v336-***-****; email:***********@*******.***
Summary: Seasoned risk manger seeking senior position within
enterprise/credit risk management environment.
. Founded/managed commercial loan department. .
Supervised/Directed Commercial Real Estate production.
. Developed accounting & general ledger system. .
Forecasted balance sheet and P&L for multiple departments.
. Pioneered new product development. . Evaluated
dozens of projects/business plans each year.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ALLEGACY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
February 2004- March 2010
Created the commercial loan department with one junior officer and one
administrative assistant from the ground up while collecting $30M a month
in fees and gross interest billings of over $600M per month. Profitable
within ninety days of hire. Originated over $100MM with a locked spread
of 205bps over the past five years. Average credit relationship $1.7MM.
Lending authority: $1MM unsecured, $3MM secured, $3MM cash management
exposure.
. Authored business loan policy, including risk grade descriptions, for
commercial & industrial loans, commercial real estate and corporate
cards.
. Directed the project management team that bought the software,
mind mapped the process, integrated and implemented the accounting and
reporting functions to CFO and COO.
. Oversaw market condition analysis to asset liability committee.
. Recommended changes to loan and risk grade policies to COO and
presented annually to the board.
. Achieved profitability in 90 days through origination and
participation programs.
. Hunted, approved, skinned and performed annual reviews across a
variety of industries including construction-commercial and residential,
lodging, manufacturing, medical, franchise, service and securitization
markets.
. Independently drafted recommendations for value-added, credit analysis
to identify and mitigate risk.
. Credit analysis includes self designed pricing models, financial
analysis, cash flow projections and market analysis in concert with
national due diligence models.
. Defended portfolio through business partner, regulatory, and external
audits.
. Tested annually, the perfection of collateral documents and covenant
compliance.
. Independent balancing monthly of commercial loan system with general
ledger accounting system.
. Voting member of ALCO, Senior Credit, Portfolio Credit Risk, and
Investment committees.
. Stress test modeling for IRR and corporate liquidity reviews with CFO.
. Joint development with COO of Probability of Default, Loss Given
Default and Exposure Given Default similar to Basel II standards for
geographic, industry, and quality concentrations.
. Developed and trained subordinate staff including management succession
candidates.
LEXINGTON STATE BANK, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
August 1999-February 2004
Hired for business development skills ultimately employed as workout
specialist following a loan officer fraud. Renegotiated and troubled
accounts represented over 60% of account load while maintaining positive
month over month growth in portfolio. Loan authority: $500M unsecured,
$1M secured, $500M retail.
. Commercial business development within a central lending environment.
. OREO management.
. Portfolio structured finance products.
BANK ONE, Huntington, West Virginia
November 1996-August 1999
Brought in as a consultant shortly after the aggregation of 16 banks
while running three independent core systems concurrently. Ultimately
replace the senior account officer that started a community bank with his
largest account. Originated $2MM per month in loan production mostly CRE
and capital market products. Loan authority: $1MM unsecured, $5MM
secured, $10MM cash management/overdraft exposure.
. Maintained local portfolio and originated local C&I and CRE
credits while acting as Master Servicer under Pooling Service
Agreement to local banks.
. Bank One WV, was the largest independent operation under the Bank
One umbrella and we maintained a higher Moody's and SP rating than
the corporate BancOne. Secondary market, credit enhancements, counter
party risk and rate swaps were under my control.
. M&A activity was strong and concentrated in hospital/nursing
homes and manufacturing.
. Most CRE construction origination was under IRB rules of
engagement.
PHAEDO CORPORATION, Savannah, Georgia
Formed and capitalized four LLC's with a partner for leveraged derivate
trading in financials and metals. We routinely traded notional amounts
equal to 12M times equity within four specialized risk management
systems. All LLC's were profitable over any 6 month period while under my
control. We had full discretion over the underlying equity accounts and
commodity accounts while passing full audits by the CFTC, our external
auditors, and peer reviews without comment.
. President, CFO and COO of a registered, privately held Hedge Fund
(Commodity Trading Advisor).
. Series 3, 7 and 63 SEC registered representative.
. Lead trader and aggregate position manager for three PHD's in
mathematics.
. Implemented loss mitigation strategies with fuzzy logic models
while motivating performance.
C&S/SOVRAN (VIRGINIA NATIONAL BANK, NATIONSBANK, BANK OF AMERICA)
. In fifteen years and six locations, promoted through the ranks
from repo man, REIT Special Assets, Retail- Commercial, Agricultural
loan production to Commercial Account Officer Level II.
EDUCATION:
. LSU School of Banking of the South
. Roanoke College BBA (Accounting, Economics, Psychology)
. UVA Commercial Lending I & II
. VPI Agricultural Lending School
. Eleven other schools in sales, credit, or collections
REFERENCES are available upon request.