ABOUT US

Ms. Carlton is President and Founder of Springboard – Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, LLC, a leadership and organizational consulting firm which assesses organizations for inclusive culture, conducts diversity, equity and inclusion audits and develops related training in the corporate sector. Founded in 2003, Springboard’s clients and Ms. Carlton’s speaking engagements include American Express, JPMorganChase, PepsiCo, 3M, Moody's, Boeing and Medtronic among others. Prior to Springboard, Ms. Carlton had an impressive 22 year career as an investment banker, holding senior positions at JPMorganChase and Morgan Stanley. Ms. Carlton serves on multiple boards including Columbia Threadneedle Investments Mutual Funds, where she chairs the Governance Committee, Evercore (NYSE: EVR) where she is on the Audit Committee, and New York Presbyterian Hospital where she is a member of the Executive Committee and chairs the People Committee. Ms. Carlton earned a B.A. from Williams College and was elected President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management.

Ms. Connor is the owner and founder of Equity Capital Real Estate, the top Mortgage Default Asset Sales firm in Northern California, and one of the top residential real estate brokerage companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Connor and her team perform all services related to bank asset recovery and loss mitigation including asset management, eviction, contractor remodel and field management. Ms. Connor is co-founder, co-owner of La Maison Properties Inc., a private mortgage fund specializing in short term investor real estate financing in Northern California. Ms. Connor is a member and frequent conference speaker and panelist for REOMAC, the nation’s Mortgage-Default/Servicing Industry trade association. Ms. Connor served for several years on the REO Advisory Board for First American Corporation, a Santa Ana, California based diversified real estate and financial information services firm. A native of Oakland, California, Ms. Connor earned her bachelor’s degree from University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Harper’s diverse business experience includes financial services, general management and management consulting. He was a partner at First Manhattan Consulting Group, a specialty management consulting firm, where he specialized in strategy, organization, marketing and productivity improvement and counseled major financial institutions in the Unites States and abroad. For the past 15 years he has been a director of the Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut Community Partners where he provides pro-bono consulting to nonprofits and supports its management workshops and scholarships for leaders of nonprofits in Connecticut. He is a director and the treasurer of the Connecticut Rise Network, a collaboration with educators that leverages data and shared experience to improve outcomes for high school students across the state. Mr. Harper has an undergraduate degree from John Carroll University and an MBA from Harvard.

Mr. Mayer is currently an active private investor and Managing Member of Cambridge Way Ventures, LLC, a company that invests in early stage consumer products and technology companies. Mr. Mayer’s career spanned 40 years in leadership positions in large financial services institutions. Most recently he was Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management where he was a founder and Executive Chairman of FirstKey Holdings, LLC. At FirstKey, he oversaw the entity’s activities in residential and commercial mortgage origination, loan transaction management and single-family rental and residential property management. Prior to these roles, Mr. Mayer was at Deutsche Bank AG, where he ran the Corporate Finance and Markets divisions in the US and Canada and at UBS Investment Bank, where he led the global sales and trading of all fixed income and currency products. Mr. Mayer had a 19-year career at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he played a significant role in the growth and expansion of the firm’s global fixed income franchise and sat on the company’s Operating Management and Executive Committees. Mr. Mayer has vast philanthropic interests and is a Founding Board Member and Chairman of Harlem Village Academies, a high performing public charter school network. Mr. Mayer received his BA in Business and Economics from the State University of NY College at Oneonta.

Mr. Kettenmann served as President of DR Bank from 2008 to 2021. He retired in 2021 after a 49-year career in banking.

Prior to joining DR Bank, Mr. Kettenmann was an Executive Vice President at The Dime Savings Bank of New York where he led the effort to build a national consumer lending business. Earlier, Mr. Kettenmann was a Senior Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank where he held management positions in commercial lending, consumer lending, international banking and technology. Mr. Kettenmann has been an active member of the American Bankers Association and the Connecticut Bankers Association.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. High has more than 45 years of banking experience. He previously served as Partner of Patriot Financial Partners L.P., a $900 million private equity firm that primarily invests in Banks and Bank Holding Companies. Prior to joining Patriot Financial Partners LP, Mr. High served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Harleysville National Corporation from 2005 through 2008 and Chief Financial Officer during 2004 his initial year at Harleysville. From 1998 through 2004, Michael was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Progress Financial Corporation. In these capacities, he was responsible for Finance, Asset/Liability Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Operations, Risk Management, Facilities and Human Resources. Prior to joining Progress, Mr. High was Senior Vice President of Finance at CoreStates Financial Corp. following the merger in 1996 between CoreStates Financial Corp. and Meridian Bancorp where he was Senior Vice President of Finance. In a prior position, Mr. High was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with Meritor Savings Bank. He began his career in the Philadelphia office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand).

Mr. High is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of Pennsylvania (currently inactive) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Mr. High’s professional affiliations and activities include: member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, former Board members of Howard Bancshares, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, Elderlife Financial Services, Rock Hall, Md., Equity Bancshares Inc. Wichita, Kansas and current board members of CoastalSouth Bancshares, Inc. Hilton Head, SC. DR Bank, Darien, Conn. and Penn State Great Valley Advisory Board.

Mr. Honold has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Patriot, he served as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Turner Investments. Mr. Honold’s primary responsibilities included managing the firm’s financial-services focused hedge fund as well as research and security selection for banks, asset managers, insurers, brokers, REITs and financial technology companies for the firm’s diversified equity portfolios.

Prior to joining Turner, Mr. Honold held the position of Senior Research Analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods where he covered southeast regional banks as part of the team that helped rebuild the firm after 9/11. Mr. Honold began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an Analyst in the Bank Supervision Group.

Mr. Honold received a B.A. degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a CFA® charterholder.