Ms. Catalano has over three decades of financial institution regulatory risk management experience.  Her areas of specialty are corporate governance, consumer compliance strategy and regulatory relations.

Ms. Catalano served in executive or senior compliance roles at two of the nation’s largest lenders, where she was responsible for oversight of the enterprise-wide compliance testing function, the credit card compliance program, and developing compliance strategy and reporting for the home equity business unit.  She also consulted for 12 years focusing on assisting banks in responding to and preventing enforcement or other regulatory actions, primarily those involving fair lending and other lending regulations.  Ms. Catalano held various positions with federal bank regulatory agencies, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Office of Thrift Supervision.  A portion of her agency work related to proposing and drafting enforcement actions as well as overseeing the management and resolution of severely troubled savings and loan associations.

Ms. Catalano earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech in 1985 and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois in 1973.