Mr. Walter G. Menezes, Advisory Board Member

Mr. Menezes has 30+ years experience in banking, including unit and business group leadership and management of lending, operations, credit,  international and collections.  He has demonstrated consistent success in turn-around assignments, consolidations,  development and implementation of new strategies, executive recruitment, and  introduction of superior analytics.

He recently retired this year from HSBC, a $2.5 trillion in assets, Global UK Bank. He worked for 12 years at HSBC, initially, as Chief Credit Officer for the Credit Card business, as President and CEO of the $11 billion Auto Finance business, as President and CEO of the US Credit Card business and for the last 3 years as Group Executive managing HSBCÆs $90 billion Global Credit Cards and Auto Finance business.

Prior to HSBC, Mr. Menezes worked for 18 years at Wells Fargo Bank in restructuring and turnaround assignments in Retail and International banking. His assignments included managing their Mortgage servicing business, managing Latin American and Asia Pacific divisions and managing product for Installment Loans.

Mr. Menezes has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.