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Profiles
Paul Schaus, President & Managing Partner
Paul Schaus brings to his position as President of Catalyst Consulting Group, more than twenty five years of bank management and consulting experience within the financial services sector.
Prior to forming Catalyst Consulting Group, Paul was Executive Vice President for an international consulting firm, where he built the firm's highly successful strategy and project management consulting practice. His move into the consulting world was preceded by a position as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for a regional bank in Washington, DC.
His direct experience within the financial industry includes strategic planning, bank management, acquisition integration, retail banking, deposit operations, item processing, finance / accounting, information technology and loan operations. Paul was responsible for European operations for a US financial institution, served as Chief Financial Officer for a regional bank, divisional Senior Vice President for a multi-state bank holding company, and was an executive officer for two de-novo bank organization. Paul’s interest in banking grew from a position he held at a DC area institution while attending college.
Over the past ten years, Paul has consulted with numerous commercial and savings banks both large and small, credit unions and financial services firms both domestically and internationally. He has been quoted within industry publications such as American Banker and Bank Technology News, and is an experienced professional speaker.
Paul graduated from the University of Maryland and from PCBS Graduate School of Banking, specializing in Corporate Banking. Paul is on the board of directors of the Southwest Business Financing Corporation, a private, non-profit corporation that arranges long-term business loans under the SBA 504 loan program.
Stephen Bohanon, Vice President, Sr. Business Consultant
Stephen brings to his position as Vice President, Senior Business Consultant, more than fifteen years of senior executive sales and marketing experience in various financial services environments including credit unions, banks, thrifts and third party financial service bureaus.
Before joining Catalyst Consulting Group, Stephen held positions with ACI Worldwide, CCS and Metavante Corporation. His direct experience within the financial industry includes enterprise online banking solutions, commercial lending automation and payment processing solutions.
Stephen has a diverse background and brings a unique blend of experience to Catalyst Consulting Group. Stephen has worked with hundreds of financial institutions to provide them with products and solutions to improve their operations and increase their profitability.
In his career he has been recognized for his leadership abilities, industry knowledge and negotiations skills. Stephen attributes his success to client commitment and building long-term relationships.
William Fitting, Partner & Senior Consultant
William (Bill) Fitting brings to his position as Partner and Senior Consultant, more than thirty years of executive operations experience in the financial services industry. Bill’s background includes several of the industry’s largest institutions, including SunTrust Bank, M&T Bank, and Bank of America, where he managed a broad range of operational areas. He has been an active participant in merger and acquisition planning, technology management and global outsourcing.
Prior to joining Catalyst Consulting Group, Bill was employed at SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, where he was the Manager of External Labor in the bank’s technology organization. In this capacity he had responsibility for the acquisition and management of 400+ global resources, as well as for the acquisition of domestic contract programming and consulting resources. While at SunTrust, he also directed a multi-year program to upgrade or replace a significant portion of the institution’s key Treasury Management systems.
Before joining SunTrust, Bill was Senior Vice President and Division Manager for Operations and Processing Services at Allfirst Bank, now M&T Bank, in Baltimore, Maryland. This position included responsibility for the bank’s check processing, corporate operations, and deposit service activities at sites in Baltimore, Harrisburg, and Millsboro, Delaware.
Bill attended Lehigh University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Management and Business Administration. He is also a graduate of the BAI School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin and the Business of Banking School at Cornell University. He represented Maryland financial institutions on the Fifth Federal Reserve District Operations Advisory Committee, and served on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Automated Clearing House Association (MACHA). In addition, he was a founding Director of the Baltimore-Washington Clearing House Association. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has chaired the planning committees for the BAI Check Processing Conference, and the BAI Money Transfer Conference.
James Godish, Partner & Senior Consultant
Jim brings to his position as Partner & Senior Consultant of Catalyst Consulting Group, more than thirty years of experience working with financial institutions as a technology vendor as well as a consultant.
Prior to joining Catalyst Consulting Group, Jim was Executive Vice President for an international consulting firm, where he built the firm's highly successful Business Assessment and Vendor Evaluation practice.
Over his consulting career, Jim has managed and consulted on numerous successful client engagements to financial institutions ranging in asset size from $50 million to $90 billion. Conducted over sixty assessments of clients’ item processing, day 2 functions and cash management departments. These engagements resulted in the development of a strategic plan and business case pertaining to the technology necessary to address the client’s specific requirements.
Jim has managed over fifty client technology evaluations. These engagements encompassed all phases of the process from developing a Request for Proposal through contract negotiation. Reviewed over fifty vendors providing solutions for item processing, transaction image archives, remote image capture, ATM deposit balancing, wire transfer, image based report and statement storage, statement formatting, and image based document management and workflow.
Jim graduated has a MBA from Wheeling Jesuit University and a BA Bethany College.
Carl Hoyer, Partner & Senior Systems Architect Consultant
As a Partner & Senior System Architect Consultant for Catalyst Consulting Group, Carl Hoyer has over twenty years of leadership experience in technology risk organization design & implementation, technology controls design & implementation, network enterprise risk management, and technology risk consulting. Carl has witnessed and participated in the evolution of computing technology from the centralized mainframe architecture to the networked computing paradigm of today. His interest in computing technology started while attending University of Illinois and his first engagement with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Over his career, Carl has applied his efforts to the information technology industry with completed assignments in a diverse array of information technology disciplines including software development, system design and architecture, network operations, project planning and technology management.
Carl has extensive knowledge base in the use of hardware and software systems when creating solutions for clients. He has an intimate knowledge of TCP/IP networking and its uses that began in 1985. Diverse set of hardware interactions that range from microcontrollers to supercomputers. Carl has multi-platform expertise involving most modern operating systems (UNIX/Linux, Windows, Mac, Embedded & Real-Time, Application Servers, SOA/ESB Systems). An extensive portfolio of programming experiences using various computer languages (BASIC/VB, Forth, C/C++/C#, Fortran, Assembler, JAVA/J2EE, JMS, Hibernate/Spring, SQL, HTML/DHTML/XHTML, CSS/DOM/XSL, XML/XSD, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, PERL, UNIX/Windows Scripting, VBScript, Macros, SOAP/WSDL/BPEL, UML, LotusScript, PDF, Flash). Diverse database design, implementation and administration experiences with various vendors (MS SQL/Jet/Access, IBM DB2, Informix IDS/Cloudscape, Oracle, Sybase, xBase variants).
A diverse set of experiences in implementing vendor supplied or in-house developed applications across many different platforms, methodologies, and enterprises. Areas of expertise include security, web delivery, data access, workflow, imaging, user interfaces, data acquisition and telemetry, SOA systems delivery, and transaction management.
Carl has conducted engagement across diverse group of clients. A partial list would include Colonial Bank, First Republic Bank, Trustmark National Bank, MBNA America, Illinois Credit Union League and the University of Illinois. Carl holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Illinois.
Don Ovans, Partner & Senior Consultant
As a Senior Consultant for Catalyst Consulting Group, Don Ovans has over thirty years of experience in bank operations and technology. Before joining Catalyst, Don was employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as the subject matter expert and industry vendor liaison for check image processing. Don’s involvement with FedImage lead to working with the Fed’s Retail Product Office in developing and marketing electronic products for banks, and acting as the technical consultant in that effort. Prior to Check 21 being enacted, Don spent a number of months speaking around the country about “How” Check 21 and “What” Check 21 would mean to the industry.
Before Check 21, Don supported the Federal Reserve Bank’s 1st District Check operations in 3 capture centers. Don also supported Treasury Archive, E-Check, Electronic Check Products, MCA, and EFA and Fedline for the Web.
Don has conducted various engagement assisting banks formulate their Check 21 and Payments strategies.
When not pondering banking issues, Don is volunteering at Habitat for Humanity building houses and keeping his own home in the Boston area from crumbling.
Don has a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
Deborah Potter, Partner & Senior Consultant
As a Senior Consult for Catalyst Consulting Group, Deborah Potter leads many of the firm's project management engagements. She brings to the firm her outstanding skills in Project Management, Systems Development and Delivery Methodology, Organizational Change Management, and Business Requirements Analysis. She is also involved with Catalyst technology and strategic planning projects.
Prior to joining Catalyst, Deborah held executive positions in both Operations and Change Management. With her over thirty years in the financial services industry she has developed strong management expertise in information technology, deposit operations, cash management and loan administration.
Deborah is a Certified Project Management Professional, implemented over fifty systems and managed over twenty Merger and Acquisitions projects. She has served on numerous industry committees and as a key speaker at various bank conferences.
Deborah holds a BA in Finance and Dance from University of Washington.
Mike Scheuerman, MCP, Partner & Senior Consultant
Mike Scheuerman brings to Catalyst Consulting Group an extensive background as an Information Technology Executive Management professional with widely diversified experience from the computer room to the boardroom. A proven leader in applying technology to business problems, Mike gets results by combining strong interpersonal skills with the ability to implement a vision through practical solutions.
Mike brings systems development and administration as well as a hands-on, leading edge understanding of technology and e-Business / e-Commerce trends within the financial sector. His broad range of experience spans strategic business and technology planning, with a focus upon multi-channel integration that leverages the customer relationship.
Prior to working with Catalyst, Mike held the position of Chief Information Officer for Northwest Corporate Credit Union. Before joining Northwest he served as CIO for First Technology and Vice President of Technology for Fiserv. Mike has been published in numerous industry periodicals, including most recently Credit Union Magazine with “Crossing the Line between Competitive Advantage and Utility”, “Assessing New Technology Risks” “The Promise of Web Services” and “Application Service Provider Contract Essentials”. Mike is in great demand as a speaker at industry conferences and seminars, as well as an experienced facilitator for management retreats and board planning sessions.
Mike holds an MBA in Business Administration and BS in Pre-Medical Zoology.
J. Barrett VanDame, National Sales Director
As Catalyst National Sales Director, Barrett brings to his position, more than thirty years of executive sales and marketing experience across all areas of financial services, particularly in strategy and implementation, conversions and consolidations and CRM.
Barrett's principal focus is working with a diverse range of financial institution and financial services leaders to achieve alignment of their vision and business plans with strategic and organizational change initiatives. This includes revitalization of leadership commitment; process, workforce, and financial re-engineering; relationship management and customer care; and productivity improvement, cost assessment and measurement.
Prior to joining Catalyst, Barrett held the position of National Sales Executive – Payment Solutions with NCR Corporation.
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