- Lecturer
lschiff@hawaii.edu
Academic Background
- MBA in Finance from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
- BS in Economics and Management from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Recent corporate leadership roles include:
- Senior Vice President, Credit Risk Management, Central Pacific Bank, Honolulu (In charge of credit reporting, delivery and presentation of monthly/quarterly credit-related results to the Board and senior management)
- Officer-in-Charge, Large and Regional Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch (Head bank regulator for all large and regional commercial banks in central and southern Texas)
- Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Risk Management Officer of East West Bank, Pasadena, CA ($70 billion in assets; largest regional commercial bank in CA)
Earlier career experience includes:
- Director of National Credit Risk Management Practice at KPMG, Los Angeles, CA (Sold and delivered $2.5 million worth of major loan evaluation consulting business each year for 4 years)
- Group Vice President in SunTrust Bank’s Credit Risk Management Division, Atlanta, GA (Head of capital markets credit risk management policy)
- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pioneer Federal Saving Bank, Honolulu, HI (merged with First Hawaiian Bank)
- Spent much of my career as a Bank Supervision Officer and commercial bank examiner with the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC, Dallas & New York
Honolulu Civic Organizations Member:
BPOE Elks of the US
Hawaii Enterprise Network Council