About Our Team

Project Managers

Linda Kleckner, Esq. - Project Technical Manager

lkleckner@bdaglobal.com

Linda Kleckner, Esq., is a BDA Global Senior Manager and an experienced assessment and evaluation consultant. Ms. Kleckner was a Senior Executive and head regulator at The National Credit Union Administration and a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Regulatory Council. She also served as an appointed Member of the Consumer Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Board. She is a former Vice President/Chief of Staff at Citicorp, and Vice President at American Express. Ms Kleckner also oversaw the merger of the first Citigroup Investment Bank savings and loan takeover with an existing mortgage subsidiary. This involved reviewing and crafting credit policy, as well as a comprehensive reengineering of business processes. She is one of the nation's premiere experts at evaluating operational efficiency and effectiveness. Ms. Kleckner is an attorney and has two law degrees, including a Masters' in Government Contracts (Procurement Law).


William A. Kmetz - Project Administrative Manager

wkmetz@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Kmetz is a facilities, safety and security expert, a Senior Manager at BDA Global, and former Senior Executive at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Mr. Kmetz is currently managing a project for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and recently managed a project at the Millennium Challenge Corporation to update its COOP plans to ensure compliance with new US Federal guidance including Federal Directives 1 and 2. He also recently provided subject matter expertise on two emergency management projects for the District of Columbia and conducted training for Arlington County, Virginia. Mr. Kmetz is the former Director of Security at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In that position, he was responsible for directing the FDIC's physical and personnel security programs, as well as the continuity/disaster preparedness and transportation management programs. Mr. Kmetz was also previously the Chief of the Investigations and Inquiries Branch, Office of Contractor Oversight & Surveillance, Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). Mr. Kmetz holds an inactive Top Secret Clearance.

Core Team

Suzan King - Subject Matter Expert II

sking@bdaglobal.com

Ms. King is a seasoned finance and banking professional with 32 years of work experience in various capacities for Citigroup and Bank of America. She has originated, underwritten and successfully closed large and complex commercial credit facilities to private and public corporations, including law firms. The credit transactions provide capital market solutions that include multi-currency lending, trade finance, standby letters of credit, cash management, foreign exchange and interest rate hedging options. During her last two years at Citigroup Private Bank, Ms. King was a Senior Structured Lending and Risk Management executive responsible for a credit portfolio of $700 million. Ms. King co-started and was a key contributor to Citigroup's highly successful and profitable Private Banking-Law Firm Group business in Los Angeles. The team delivers customized private banking, jumbo mortgages, secured and unsecured lines of credit, investment counseling, personal financial planning, trust and estate solutions to high net worth professionals, business owners and their families. Ms. King is a UCLA certified Personal Financial Planner and holds a master of global business management degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. She has securities licenses: Series 7, 63 & 65.


Thomas Morrison - Subject Matter Expert II

tmorrison@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Morrison is a former Senior Banking Executive, who has been involved with the growth and restructuring of institutions and individual branches. He initiated credit relationships with 13 of the 14 AM Law 100 clients in the Western States as well as trained a profitable team of bankers responsible for extending credit to law firms in the Western States that dealt with area managers for Citibank's Private Bank Law Firm Group, specializing in providing financial services to Law Firms and Lawyers. Mr. Morrison once had full responsibility for the Los Angeles market including management of staff, income statement and business development within his branch. As a professional he opened an office, which grew to a multi-million dollar profit center during a 2-year period.


Kathleen Chapman - Subject Matter Expert II

kchapman@bdaglobal.com

Ms. Chapman is a Senior Executive in commercial banking with extensive experience in credit and operational risk management, commercial middle market management, strategic administrative positions, retail branch operations/management, resolution of troubled credit portfolios and consulting to banks. She has held numerous senior positions in all phases of credit, including senior credit officer for a subsidiary bank with loans of $3.5 billion. Ms. Chapman managed oversight for the wholesale automobile dealer loan and lease portfolio totaling $1.7 Billion for Bank of America, returning the division to satisfactory in one year, after four years of failed OCC examinations; and she designed and established the first centralized underwriting and approval processes and centers for middle market lending for BOA, handling a portfolio of $5 billion through four Statewide centers. She has acquired engagements from $10K to $100K, covering diagnostic reviews; end-to-end credit process redesign; turnarounds of substandard credit operating environments; and change management, including organization-wide collaboration, communication tools and implementation strategies. Ms. Chapman holds a BS in Law and Finance from California State University, and is a graduate of BOA's operations and credit management programs, as well as the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Dartmouth.



Bert Figueroa - Subject Matter Expert II

bfigueroa@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Figueroa is a Financial Services professional with over 20 years experience encompassing a full range of banking assignments including Operations, Mortgages, Investments, Relationship Management & Commercial Lending. The diversity and breadth of his career has honed his skills in the areas of business development, portfolio management, lending, and risk management. He served as Vice President and Senior Lending Specialist of the Citigroup Private Bank in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Figueroa earned his bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University and has held Series 7 and 63 licenses.





Anli Tien Leong - Subject Matter Expert I

aleong@bdaglobal.com

Ms. Leong is an experienced financial executive with extensive direct sales experience in the financial services industry. In addition, Ms. Leong is a credit trained executive with a strong financial and accounting background. She has managed a portfolio of law firms and individuals totaling $400MM in assets, which under her management generated $4 million in annual revenue. She was in charge of banking for the Chairmen of five of the top San Francisco based law firms, as well as over 700 individual attorneys. Ms. Leong has a varied background covering international banking, middle market lending and private banking at world-class organizations. Ms. Leong has implemented new marketing strategies at each organization that she has worked for, generating additional, revenue and further expanding client relationships.



Alexei Koval, CFA - Subject Matter Expert I

akoval@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Koval has managed the process of daily valuation of 36,000 equities, derivatives and fixed income securities, and supervised teams of more than five pricing specialists. He has liaised with companies' compliance departments to establish appropriate security classification, naming conventions and internal ratings. Mr. Koval also coordinated the launch of new products' coverage with commercial pricing vendors – IDC, JP Morgan, LPC, which test and implement automated valuation processes. Mr. Koval prepared and presented regular pricing reports to internal Pricing Committee, mutual fund boards, and clients. He has managed, organized and analyzed market and security data obtained from external vendors; designed and maintained Excel- and Access-based applications for pricing and security maintenance purposes; and contributed to design and implementation of global web-based pricing solution databases. Mr. Koval has monitored, validated and analyzed daily and monthly securities prices by comparing them with corresponding indices and benchmarks. His past employers had included Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, International Subsidiaries, and Western Asset Management.


Edward Leong - Subject Matter Expert II

eleong@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Leong is an experienced financial executive with a diverse and comprehensive background. He is a credit trained individual and has trained executives in credit and counterparty risk assessment from a commercial and Capital Markets perspective. Mr. Leong has strong negotiation skills with unsecured/secured credit documents, ISDA and Repo agreements, including servicing contracts. Accomplishments reflect his goal-oriented attitude with strong interpersonal, communication skills, and problem solving abilities. His most recent position with Countrywide Financial demonstrated his financial expertise and negotiation skills. Mr. Leong was the primary contact point for commercial and investment banks who wished to market credit, non-credit and capital markets products and services to Countrywide Financial. In this role, Mr. Leong accomplished the following: 1.) Increased unsecured credit commitments from $5 Bn. to almost $12 Bn from over forty financial institutions; 2.) Reduced pricing on credit facilities by over 30%; 3.) Reduced loan covenant constraints; 4.) Increased the size of the Bank Group by over 25%; while diversifying the various participants in the Group. He was also responsible for increasing secured credit conduit commitments from $6 Bn. to $15 Bn. Mr. Leong was responsible for the successful liquidation of Marine Midland Bank's credit exposure to Drexel Burnham Lambert which totaled in the low nine figure range. While at Chemical Bank he was one of the primary senior coverage persons responsible for the structuring and syndication of a $2.0 Bn. Secured Credit facility for committed liquidity to Salomon Bros. during its liquidity crisis in the early 1990s. As part of Mr. Leong's early Management Training Program at Marine Midland Bank, he was trained in retail banking for the teller, head teller and platform functions for several months.


Donald Hebard - Subject Matter Expert I

dhebard@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Hebard is a business and finance operations manager with expertise in Organization Change Management, Operational Management, Customer Relations, and Retail Credit Management. His progressive leadership achievement and demonstrated success in positions of ever increasing responsibility has demonstrated his financial and business management ability. His accomplishments in managing organizational change, performance improvement and enhanced efficiency have helped lead to significant reductions including a 20% reduction in technology support costs and 15% reduction in expenses for one client. Mr. Hebard holds an EMBA from Claremont Graduate University and is proficient in Spanish. Mr. Hebard held a variety of senior positions at BXI Exchange Inc from 1989- 2004


Lori Sanchez - Subject Matter Expert I

lsanchez@bdaglobal.com

Ms. Sanchez is a banking regulatory compliance professional with extensive consulting experience. Her areas of expertise are in Banking Operations, Employee Benefit Trust, Corporate Trust, Personal Trust, Securities Processing, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Additional consultative services include project management, system conversion, accounting and internal audit. Ms. Sanchez worked with Bank of America for 10 years in Institutional Trust, Private Banking and most recently, Mortgage Banking. As a consultant, she served as a subject matter expert in securities, trust, and SOX compliance to Ernst & Young, RSM McGladrey, First Hawaiian Bank, US Bank, and Mellon Bank.




Dennis Ramprashad, CPA - Subject Matter Expert II

dramprashad@bdaglobal.com

Mr. Ramprashad is a Senior Assurance Manager with Miller Musmar and has over 22 years of experience providing Audit, Accounting and Consulting services to governments, not-for-profit and commercial entities. He obtained extensive audit experience while working for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio and Associates, and Deloitte & Touché. He has also served as Engagement Manager on several client engagements, including the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). His relevant experience includes assisting in the closing processing of the Silverado Bank, Denver, CO, and Guardian Bank, NY, which were taken over by the RTC; performing internal control and compliance review of the operations of the RTC contractors in Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX; performing review and analysis of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and revenue backlog report of selected customers on behalf of Access National Bank, Chantilly, VA. Mr. Ramprashad earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Howard University Washington, DC, and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of the: Greater Washington Society of CPA's (GWSCPA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and is a licensed CPA in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.



April Allison, Esq - Subject Matter Expert I

aallison@bdaglobal.com

Ms. Allison has over six years of experience as a lawyer with an emphasis on complex business litigation and support. She has worked on multiple international contracts as well as special business research assignments. As an Associate at Martin & Drought and Blakeley & Reynolds she successfully represented large conglomerate firms using her expertise in corporate legal defense and has also worked on restructuring and business analytics projects. Ms. Allison is an expert at contracts law with expertise relevant to the support of bank receiverships and closings, including support claims, investigations, and settlements.





Merri-Ann Cooper, PhD - Subject Matter Expert II

mcooper@bdaglobal.com

Ms. Cooper is a highly accomplished consultant and has extensive experience guiding organizations and personnel through dynamic change, business process reengineering, and operational streamlining initiatives that improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance communications. She leverages impeccable educational credentials and 20+ years' experience driving organizational assessments and change, and devises strategic and tactical plans that produce desired outcomes. Ms. Cooper has worked with agencies including the NIH, The World Bank, U.S. Department of State, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NASA to rapidly evaluate, diagnose, and resolve issues that diminish an internal and external effectiveness. She serves clients as a critical business partner, strategist, change agent, and facilitator in strengthening organizational effectiveness, and improving the ability to devise, introduce, and manage change. Ms. Cooper engages a highly collaborative approach in working with high-ranking executives to identify root causes of pervasive issues, analyze organization structures, processes, and communications.