Bankers Helping Bankers
What you really need to know about the team behind Finance. Risk. Unified.
About Us // The Big Idea
Sola Analytics and OnPoint Risk Advisors collaborated and developed a comprehensive and groundbreaking Unified Technology Platform that provides unprecedented data and visibility for community and regional banks.
The combined leadership of these companies consists of banking professionals with an average of 30 years of experience in bank finance, risk management, with industry advisors and trainers of over 400 state and federal bank examiners.
About Us // Leadership
Practice Lead: Financial & Capital Risk, Market Risk, Credit Risk
Expert: Enterprise Risk, Governance Risk
Company Profile // Sola Analytics
Developers of comprehensive reporting, modeling, budgeting, and risk
management solutions designed to meet the unique needs of banks.
Bio //
In 2015, Aaron joined Finance Risk Unified as CEO and leads FRU’s efforts in delivering finance and risk-related solutions that provide strategic visibility to banks.
Prior to joining FRU, Aaron had a wide-ranging banking career with extensive experience and emphasis on stress testing, enterprise risk management (ERM), and financial reporting and analysis. In his role at a regional commercial bank, Aaron was the primary architect for the development of the Dodd Frank Act Stress Testing (DFAST) program, Model Risk Management Program, and ERM Program. He led the formation and development of both the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) departments and has extensive experience in profitability reporting, asset liability management, securities analysis, cash flow modeling, and M&A transactions.
In addition to his CPA and CFA license, Aaron holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance degree from Oklahoma State University and a Masters of Science in Accounting and Information Management degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.
John Drew // Chairman
Practice Lead: Enterprise Risk, Governance Risk, Credit Risk
Expert: Operations Risk, Market Risk, Technology Governance, Compliance Risk,
Internal Audit, Mortgage Risk, Financial & Capital Risk
Company Profile // OnPoint Risk Advisors
A team of experts consisting of banking professionals with bank risk
management experience, and industry advisors implementing risk management
programs in financial institutions with up to $50 billion in assets.
Bio //
John, a 37-year veteran in the financial services/banking industry, is President & CEO of OnPoint Risk Advisors, a Risk Management consulting firm that provides strategically aligned ERM and Credit Risk Consulting Services ranging from initial assessments to full implementations.
Formerly, EVP/Chief Credit & Risk Officer of Amegy Bank, John was responsible for Enterprise Wide Risk Management including governance, credit, operations and market risks and served as the liaison to the Board of Directors and the OCC for the risk management and regulatory oversight of the bank. Under his leadership, the bank implemented one of the earliest comprehensive Enterprise Risk Management programs in the nation which included the integration of all Regulatory Compliance and Internal Audit functions.
Other risk management related accomplishments include roles with the Risk Management Association, the nation’s leading risk management association for financial institutions, as National and State Director, Enterprise Risk Council and numerous speaking engagements at local, state and national risk management events. John has provided risk management training and thought leadership in the area of risk management to over 400 bank regulators across the nation. John holds a BBA in Finance degree from Texas Tech University.
Chris Henkel // President
Practice Lead: Enterprise Risk, Credit Risk
Expert: Financial & Capital Risk, Market Risk
Company Profile // Henkel Analytics LLC
Henkel Analytics LLC is a professional services firm engaged in helping financial institutions improve how they manage risk through data-driven analytics and digital transformation.
Recognizing that the ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions that saturate the market today are inappropriate for many community and regional banks, Henkel Analytics LLC was formed to serve as a trusted partner and advisor who can tether leading analytical practices and industry trends with your institution’s unique risk and finance activities.
With nearly 30 years of banking, finance, and risk analytics experience, Chris has led financial institutions of all sizes to manage financial risks through digital transformation, data science, and business analytics.
Chris began his financial services career as a commercial banker (ABL, corporate, CRE, middle-market, specialty finance) and credit and financial risk management expert for a regional bank in Texas. He brought analytical and quantitative expertise in loan underwriting, credit review, risk modeling, data analytics, and training to essential front and back-office lending activities.
As a Managing Director working for a New York-based leading provider of financial intelligence and analytical tools, Chris provided over one-hundred financial institutions with extensive leadership, consulting, and ongoing support for SaaS products and risk management services. Chris led large and diverse teams who served as the trusted point of contact and advisors for strategic customers. He developed, sold, delivered, and supported solutions for CRE lending and investments, allowance for credit loss quantification (CECL, IFRS9), credit administration (including policy and process enhancement), risk ratings and modeling, portfolio monitoring, regulatory compliance, and credit risk training.
Chris’ additional activities include authoring articles for trade publications, delivering webinars, speaking at industry conferences, and periodically teaching finance and risk as a guest lecturer at the college and high school levels.
In addition to four years serving our country in the US Navy, Chris holds both an MBA and a BBA in Finance and Accounting from The University of Texas at Dallas, along with a combined four years of post-graduate study in Banking and Financial Support Services at SW Graduate School of Banking (Southern Methodist University) and Data Science and Business Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Practice Lead: Compliance Risk
Expert: Enterprise Risk, Governance Risk
Company Profile // Henkel Analytics LLC
Henkel Analytics LLC is a professional services firm engaged in helping financial institutions improve how they manage risk through data-driven analytics and digital transformation.
Recognizing that the ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions that saturate the market today are inappropriate for many community and regional banks, Henkel Analytics LLC was formed to serve as a trusted partner and advisor who can tether leading analytical practices and industry trends with your institution’s unique risk and finance activities.
Prince McKnight is 35-year compliance and risk executive with extensive experience in developing, implementing and managing enterprise-wide regulatory compliance programs, including those geared to enhance anti-money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and financial crimes compliance as well as oversight of consumer protections.
Over the course of his career, Prince has been a federal banking examiner, a regulatory consultant, trusted advisor and subject matter expert serving mid-size, and large commercial financial institutions. He also has served in senior and executive management capacities in several growth oriented financial institutions of varying size and complexity leading through the mitigation of supervisory concerns, both formal and informal, relating to financial crimes compliance.
Prince has also participated as an instructor and panelist in several seminars and classes conducted by the American Bankers Association as well as the Texas Bankers Association on Bank Secrecy Act and other regulatory and risk subjects.
Prince holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management from Trevecca Nazarene University.
Rob Camper // Director, Brand Strategy
Expertise: Brand Strategy, Strategic Narrative, Brand Identity, Engagement Strategy, Brand Management, Reputation Risk
Company Profile // Corridor Brand Group
Corridor Brand Group develops brand loyalty by bringing definition to your mission, brand strategy and brand aesthetic. We then help you integrate it internally, externally, and then coach you to success.
For more than 30 years, Rob has been developing brand solutions for a variety of businesses and organizations of all sizes, both from within organizations or through his consultancy, Corridor Brand Group, whose clients have included Startek, Houston International Festival, PreCash, local celebrities, and several non-profits.
Specific to banking, Rob has held the position of Strategic Brand Director at Cadence Bank in Houston, TX. In addition to designing the bank’s original corporate identity, he developed numerous touchpoints to integrate the bank’s brand as well as several campaign strategies from concept through production.
Prior to Cadence Bank, Rob was VP, Creative Practice Manager at Southwest Bank of Texas, which went on to become Amegy Bank of Texas. He led various brand strategies as well as UI design for the first ever payment gateways provided to commercial clients from a financial institution.
Currently Rob holds the position of Director, Brand Strategy and Engagement for Finance. Risk. Unified.
Rob has also given many seminars on the topic of Brand philosophy and integration to various trade groups, including the arts industry, ministry and healthcare, and has been a repeat guest lecturer and workshop facilitator for Rice University’s MBA Program specific to Brand Management. In 2004, Rob was recruited as lead contact for all of North America for The International Branding Association
Throughout Rob’s career, he has been awarded design and creative direction awards, which include Art Director’s Club of Houston and How Magazine’s International Design Awards Annual, and has published articles on brand discipline in international print and online media.
Rob holds a BFA in Graphic Communication degree from the University of Houston.
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We get you out of react-mode and back to your strategic role by delivering forward-looking financial and risk management solutions to help you realize your growth objectives with greater visibility, efficiency and resilience.
We get you out of react-mode and back to your strategic role by delivering forward-looking financial and risk management solutions to help you realize your growth objectives with greater visibility, efficiency and resilience.
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