Mark Fischer is the senior vice president at PNC Bank.  He is also a managing director and head of balance sheets strategies and analytics for PNC FIG Advisory, a unit of PNC Capital Markets, LLC.  In his role, he consults banks of all sizes on hedging, asset sales/acquisitions and more broadly balance sheet construction. 

Mr. Fischer began his career at PNC as an intern while earning his MBA.  Prior to interning at PNC, he played professional football for the Washington Redskins and Denver Broncos.  He is currently an executive board member of the Texas A&M School of Commercial Banking and holds a FINRA Series 7, 63, 79 and 24 licenses.

Edward Francis is the chair of the board and CEO at InBank. Mr. Francis has over 35 years of banking and financial institution experience. InBank is a dynamic and growing $1.3B commercial bank serving Colorado and New Mexico. Previously, Mr. Francis held the position of EVP and chief banking officer at Hancock Whitney and served on Hancock Whitney’s executive management committee for more than 10 years. He holds a B.S. in Managerial Finance from the University of Mississippi and matriculated from the Graduate School of Banking at LSU. He has served on the faculty of the Mississippi School of Banking for over 10 years, and also serves on the Business Advisory Board and the Banking & Finance Symposium Board at Ole Miss. In addition, he serves on the Board for Firefly Autism as well as the Scholarship Selection Committee for the Daniels Fund in Denver.

Alex O’Brien is president and CEO at BOC Bank, a fintech bank based out of Amarillo, TX.  Mr. O’Brien and his family purchased the bank in 2000 with the intent to create a core software to offer customers lower cost, transparent banking.  The in-house core software currently runs BOC Bank and the bank is working to complete version 2 of the software to offer Banking as a Service.  

Mr. O’Brien enjoyed a 10-year career in professional tennis, highlighted by a world No. 1 doubles ranking, US Open doubles title, appearance in the Sydney Olympics, career high No. 30 singles ranking and 5 Davis Cup appearances.  

Garrett Smith, CEO & Founder of Community Capital Technology (CCT), is a fintech entrepreneur with a vision to optimize loan portfolio management. CCT’s platform connects 1,400+ financial institutions across the U.S., enabling more efficient, transparent loan buying, selling, origination, and participations.