Edge Consultancy Launches With Some Well-Known Names
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A new consultancy has been formed here for credit unions and banks that is made up of several people known to CUs. Edge Consultancy, LLC has been founded Kirk Kordeleski, former CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union (who will be CEO), Joe Dugan, former executive vice president of Canandaigua National Bank (who will be president), along with Louis Hernandez, Jr. Hernandez, the current chairman of Avid Technology and the former chairman of Open Solutions, is the lead investor through his equity firm, Black Dragon Capital.
Others involved include Carlos Rodriguez, a 30-year industry veteran, who will be COO; Raju Shivdasani, former CEO of Harland Financial Services, Inc. (now part of D&H), who will function in an advisory capacity, and Bill Dalton, former Executive Director of HSBC Holdings, PLC, who will serve as the group’s chairman.
Edge Consultancy said that similar to the Uber model, Edge will source former C-level executives and veterans from the community bank and credit union sectors and affordably match their specific skill sets with the various consulting needs of the bank or credit union.
“We created Edge because we saw a real need for community banks and credit unions to have access to the collective wisdom of former C-level financial industry executives, in order to help find solutions to the complex challenges facing community-based FI’s, today,” Kordeleski said.
Edge Consultancy, LLC, is headquartered in Miami Beach, Fla. and said it currently has 12 top consultants onboard with plans to expand to over 25 consultants in the coming months with the ultimate goal of having over 100 consultants engaged by the end of 2018.