Loyd’s diverse background in the Financial Services industry includes Bank Management; Trust and Investment Management; Agricultural and Commercial Lending. His banking career began in 1981, his consulting career in 1992, and he purchased the firm in 2000.
As CEO of Pohl Consulting and Training, Inc., his focus is on:
Developing new products and services to meet the changing needs of the industry
Organizational assessment and consulting including management coaching, strategic and business planning
Sales management training, coaching and development
Relationship sales and service training
Sales infrastructure development
Management and sales incentive plan development
Loyd is frequently invited to share his insights and expertise as a speaker at state, regional and national banking and trust conferences.
Loyd is a graduate of the Prochnow Institute Graduate School of Banking, and Southern Illinois University. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Agribusiness Economics.
Rochelle, IL is home for Loyd, wife and two sons. When he isn’t working you might find him enjoying a horseback ride on the farm on which he grew up.
Kevin is a 25 year veteran of applying legal, regulatory and compliance realities to create competitive advantages for banks, registered investment advisors and broker dealers. As General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and business unit leader for PrimeVest Financial Services, (now Cetera Investment Services), and later as President and CEO of ING National Trust, Kevin has been successful in guiding highly regulated organizations through aggressive growth and doing so in a manner that enhances the firm’s legal and compliance effectiveness.
You may have heard Kevin as a speaker at financial services conferences on legal and regulatory topics affecting Wealth Management and, in particular, addressing the overlap of banking, FINRA and SEC regulation. Kevin is the author of numerous articles and white papers addressing Wealth Management topics such as the application of the SEC’s Regulation R in bank – broker dealer networking arrangements, and the sharing of bank trust employees with a broker dealer.
Kevin earned his Juris Doctorate from William Mitchel College of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Education from South Dakota State University. He holds the FINRA Series 7 and 24 registrations.
In his spare time he is restoring, bolt by bolt, a 1930 Ford Town Sedan and has the requisite bruised knuckles as proof.
Client firms of all types benefit from Michael’s broad experience gained as a consultant, as well as his work leading a community bank Wealth Management Group. His time ‘in the field’ provided real world lessons and demonstrated results at the top- and bottom-line. His team also excelled in community engagement pioneering new community activities and engaging bank and community resources.
As a consultant his focus is on:
Change management involving trust, brokerage, insurance, and RIA
Coaching individual sales performance in wealth management and commercial banking
Implementing sales tracking and CRM systems
Developing sales and marketing
strategy (account and market segment)
Performing and evaluating industry standard metrics and benchmarks
Michael is a graduate of the University of Dallas with a BA in History and an MBA in Industrial Management. He is a past Board Member for both local and nationally-focused charities, and a regular contributor to his church and congregation in the areas of endowment and resource management. He resides with his wife in Chicago, Illinois.
Eric joined the firm in 2008 and has over 25 years of experience in finance, operations, and IT in a variety of industries including healthcare, shipping, manufacturing and distribution. As part of the acquisition of Trustcompare, Eric created the entire Trustcompare infrastructure, including the online data collection system, a database system for data manipulation and analysis, and the report engine for creating Trustcompare reports. He has rewritten each component of the system to improve the user experience and utilize new technologies. Eric produces the Trustcompare Insight quarterly industry analysis report, manages Trustcompare data tools, develops new products, and performs consulting engagements.
Eric is a cum laude graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and he holds an MBA from Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Charlotte, North Carolina is home for Eric, his wife and two children. His interests include reading, sports, and cooking.
Brittany has been the Office Manager for Pohl Consulting and Training, Inc. and Trustcompare® since 2019. Keeping the office running smoothly for clients and associates is her primary focus. She also works closely with company partners to meet all equipment and organizational needs, maintains the Pohl Consulting and Training, Inc. website and works with the Trustcompare team in report production. In addition to handling registrations for all of our open-registration training and forums, she coordinates the off-site training and company events.
Brittany is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and Rockford University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree, as well as paralegal certification.
When Brittany isn’t busy keeping the Associates of Pohl Consulting and Training, Inc. organized and meeting deadlines, you might find her working on her latest home renovation, or doing anything outdoors.
Brittany resides in Ashton, IL with her daughter, Ella
For more than 25 years, Jamie has advised banks, registered investment advisors, and broker dealers on a myriad of legal, regulatory, and compliance issues with the primary goal of helping his clients “maximize business while minimizing risk” by getting to “yes” where others could not get past “no.” In doing this, Jamie focuses on finding efficiencies through simplifying unnecessarily complex processes and helping organizations transition to more effective and efficient processes as they grow, simultaneously enhancing both business opportunity as well as legal and compliance effectiveness.
Jamie has developed and delivered multiple presentations on legal, regulatory, and compliance risks facing financial institutions and how best to mitigate those risks, educating audiences from small groups to over 400 people. His extensive experience handling litigation and regulatory enforcement matters allow Jamie to provide real-world advice on what clients should do to address and reduce real, material risks facing their organizations.
Jamie earned his Juris Doctorate from University of Illinois College of Law, cum laude, after completing his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics with a minor in Business Institutions from Northwestern University. He holds the FINRA Series 7, 24, and 66 registrations.
In his spare time, Jamie is an avid road cyclist and baseball fan.
Mike understands limited resources and crisis avoidance though solid risk management discipline and quality control programs.
He provides support with:
Organization and Technology Transitions
Establishing Testable Control Activities
Process and Procedure Review
System Upgrade Preparation and Pre-testing
Securities Lending and Global Custody Support
Motivational Risk and Operations Training
For over a decade, Mike served as Chair of the ICB/ABA Certification of Securities Operations Professionals (CSOP), he served the Board of Directors of the Fiduciary and Investment Risk Management Association (FIRMA) for eight years, and was a frequent contributor to the ABA’s Trust and Investments Magazine. He has been a trainer and national conference speaker for the ABA, FIRMA and Texas Bankers Association.
Mike has an MBA in International Business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from University of Redlands. His professional certifications include: Securities Operations Professional (CSOP), Fiduciary and Investment Risk Management(CFIRS), Corporate Trust Specialist (CTTS) and PMI Risk Management Professional (PMIRMP).
Mike is based in San Francisco, California and is an avid photographer and world traveler.
Mary Kocher is a former Trust Wealth Advisor and Bank Examiner with extensive fiduciary and operational experience within a Trust and Wealth Management environment. She is a strong planner an organizer who can prioritize multiple assignments and deliver superior results under tight deadline requirements. She has a track record of identifying and exceeding client needs and goals while maintaining compliance within policies and procedures, in addition to requirements set by federal and state regulatory agencies.
Her professional experience includes Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Senior Risk Management Specialist and Senior Community Regional Specialty Bank Examiner and Senior Trust Officer with a two large regional organization and a several community banks in PA. Her professional designations include Certificated Personal Financial Planning and Certified Fiduciary Investment Risk Specialist (CFIRS).
Her role at Pohl Consulting and Training is to provide compliance and operations consulting to client trust organizations. Her work includes Trust policy manual reviews and updates, examination remediation, forensic operations analysis and other compliance and risk management related projects.
Steven Schaeffer, is a recent addition to the team at Pohl Consulting and Training, which provides a wide range of regulatory and compliance services involving wealth management to banks, registered investment advisors and broker dealers.
Steven offers clients the benefit of more than 30 years of experience in managing bank-owned trust and wealth management organizations, specializing in money management, farm and ranch management and administration of South Dakota trusts for wealthy families from around the nation. Steven most recently managed Dacotah Bank Trust and Wealth Management of Aberdeen, South Dakota for more than 21 years.
Steven offers expertise on: estate planning concepts, tools and techniques; planned giving tools and techniques; business development/rainmaking; compliance and regulatory management; delegation and specialization.
Over the years, Steven conducted numerous speaking engagements and presentations from foundation boards to seminars and conferences of more than 200 participants.
Steven earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Dakota School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and History from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
In his spare time, Steven enjoys time with his beautiful Wife, LaVonne, and 13 grandchildren, travel, hunting, fishing, tennis, pickle ball, golf, hockey, raising animals [bison, pheasants, horses] and walks at sunset.
