Personnel
Lisa R. Preston
President
Curriculum Vitae
Ms. Preston founded The Preston Group, LLC in an effort to assist financial institutions, SBLC’s, and CDC’s with improvements in all aspects of the SBA lending process. She knows the industry personally from both the lender and the regulatory examination side. Personal convictions of improving efficiencies in all areas of the SBA lending process, thereby increasing loan production for the lender, led the way to the creation of The Preston Group, LLC.
Ms. Preston was employed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for 10.5 years during the extensive banking crisis in the 1980s. She was Liquidator-in-Charge for several banks deemed insolvent by the State Banking Commissioner or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and closed by the FDIC. Ms. Preston worked in the Midwest, Texas, Northeast and Washington, DC. After numerous promotions, she was slated at headquarters in Washington, DC as the FDIC liaison for the New York Region with the responsibility of managing a loan portfolio consisting of $15 billion in assets.
Previous experiences working in a national bank and in the role of an Examiner-in-Charge on behalf of the SBA completing SBA Risk Based Reviews afforded Ms. Preston a unique perspective now brought to The Preston Group client base. In addition to assisting financial institutions, credit unions, SLBC’s and CDC’s with improvements in all aspects of SBA lending, The Preston Group has supported the SBA with enforcement action activity and the FDIC with financial institution failures through government contracting.
Previous Instructor:
National Association of Development Companies (NADCO)
National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders (NAGGL)
Please contact Lisa at: lpreston@the-preston-group.com
Jeff Preston
Director of Operations
Melissa Scholl
Sr. Consultant
Linda Rusche
Sr. Consultant
