Mark Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer, has 22 years of experience in commercial banking, credit management and corporate finance at U.S. Bancorp and Security Pacific Bank. Most recently, he was Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, where he specialized in providing high quality capital structure advisory services to corporate clients. Working in collaboration with Robert Krueger (see below) while at Piper Jaffray, Mark established a strong track record of building a highly successful business by identifying and leveraging strengths into niche markets. From 1991 to 1997, Mark was Senior Vice President and Credit Approval Manager for U.S. Bank’s national corporate and international banking groups, where he was responsible for credit approval and management of a $1.7 billion credit portfolio. A graduate of Stanford University, he has resided in Portland for 15 years, providing financial services to private and public companies in the Northwest and throughout the country. Immediately prior to joining Capital Pacific Bank, Mark spent a month on a Mercy Corps project where he trained management and staff of Mongolia’s XacBank on effective small business lending practices, underwriting and new business development. |