As a Director in Community Association Banking, Ken endeavors to support community association lending needs across the United States. He drives customer objectives by ensuring his team of relationship managers is equipped with the right information and the appropriate lending tools to ensure the best outcomes for their borrowing Associations.  To further protect customer interests, Ken ensures that appropriate guidelines are met and that bank recommendations support the capital objectives and regulatory requirements of community associations.

Credentials

Across the finance space, Ken has held critical management roles in real estate lending. Throughout his career, he has focused on expanding loan access to customers by building strong client relationships with borrowers in various industries , including residential mortgage lending, commercial real estate lending and, for the past ten years, community association banking.

Ken earned an associate degree in Business Management from the Community College of Beaver County in Pennsylvania, before furthering his education by earning credits towards a Finance degree at Robert Morris College, also in Pennsylvania.

To round out his profession, Ken completed coursework in a variety of disciplines, including Real Estate Law at the Institute of Financial Education, Basic and Advanced Income Property Lending & Construction Lending at the Mortgage Bankers Association and the School of Commercial Lending, Robert Morris Associates.  Ken was also an instructor at The SunTrust Commercial Real Estate School, SunTrust University, teaching and the Marty Cohen courses of  Effective Sales Leadership and Effective Cross-selling. Ken is a seasoned member of the Community Association Institute (CAI).

Passions

With a commitment spanning a quarter of a century, Ken plays an active role in the international youth group, the General Missionary Benevolent Association (GMBA).  He has served as their President and Chaplain in the past, supporting the spiritual development of young people around the globe, while teaching them the value of personal service.  In doing so, he has made a dozen missionary trips to South America (Guatemala) and Asia (Nepal) as well as the Philippines.