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Mark R. McCollom* | email: mrm@go2griffin.com phone: (610) 478-2106 |
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Mark McCollom is a senior member of Griffin’s Financial Institutions Group where he provides merger and acquisition advisory, capital formation and strategic alternative services to bank executives, directors, stockholders and investors. Calling on his more than 20 years of experience as a senior financial executive in the banking industry, Mr. McCollom works with both major and community banks and thrifts, specialty lenders and asset managers.
Over the course of his career, Mr. McCollom has coordinated the financial and operational aspects of more than 20 acquisitions encompassing $57.3 billion in assets with a combined transaction value in excess of $6 billion. Additionally he coordinated over 20 debt and equity financings totaling in excess of $10 billion.
Prior to joining Griffin, Mr. McCollom was Chief Financial Officer for Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. and Sovereign Bank, a financial institution with approximately $90 billion in assets and 12,000 team members with principal markets in the northeast United States. During his tenure at Sovereign, he was responsible for corporate strategy and development, the treasury, accounting and financial reporting functions, investor relations and management reporting, budgeting, corporate real estate and tax.
Mr. McCollom was instrumental in executing Sovereign's successful acquisition and capital markets programs which permitted Sovereign to grow from less than $500 million to more than $80 billion in assets with total shareholder returns exceeding sector and broader market indices. Prior to joining Sovereign, Mr. McCollom was a senior corporate development officer at Meridian Bancorp.
A CPA, Mr. McCollom is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a member of the CFO Councils for both the Financial Services Roundtable and the BAI. He serves in a leadership capacity in several nonprofit organizations.
Mr. McCollom received a B.S., with high distinction, from Penn State University.
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