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Interim Manager, Turnaround Manager, Project Manager, Temporary Manager, Transitional Manager, Crisis Manager, and Non-Executive Corporate Director Candidate for any field of business where a knowledgeable financial professional is needed.
Turnaround Management, Turnaround Specialist, Turnaround CEO, Interim Manager, and Project Manager services available nationwide and worldwide.
Don Coker is an experienced banking and finance professional manager with over thirty-five years of successful business experience and who has served in various high-level executive and board of directors positions, and in governmental regulatory agency positions. Since 1986, he has served as a consultant to corporations, financial institutions, law firms, and governmental entities, domestic and foreign.
Mr. Coker is recognized as a skilled Turnaround Manager, Turnaround CEO, and Turnaround Specialist who has built a formidable knowledge base on the foundation of his many years of hands-on operational and management experiences and training.
His management experience and training include Citicorp, Ford Credit, and entities that are now Bank of America, Citigroup, Bank One/JPMorgan Chase Bank, and AmSouth/Regions Financial.
Mr. Coker is adept at identifying low-performing business units and activities, and shifting a corporation's focus to more profitable and promising ventures.
In addition, Mr. Coker is skilled at streamlining and restructuring corporate entities and their staffing so that they function more efficiently and profitably.
Mr. Coker has extensive experience in troubled debt restructuring, workouts, commercial real estate collateral repossession and marketing, and the favorable liquidation of all types of collateral.
As a lender to troubled corporations, and as an interim turnaround manager assigned with the responsibility of restructuring troubled businesses, troubled debts, and troubled commercial real estate properties, Mr. Coker has excelled each time, winning the praise of governmental regulators and others.
Mr. Coker's management experience includes the management of multi-state and multi-function operations involving hundreds of employees.
He has exceptional experience in all areas of banking, corporate finance, mortgage banking, real estate, international matters, turnaround management, and many related areas including over two years consulting as a governmental financial institution regulator.
As a successful corporate lender for many years, Mr. Coker gained valuable insight into the operations of all types of businesses, and has used this experience and insight in his consulting career.
As highlighted by his being chosen by the governmental financial institution regulators for two high-level interim management engagements that spanned over two and one half years and involved responsibility for over $1 billion in assets (equivalent to $1.8 billion in 2007 dollars), plus his other regulatory oversight experiences, Mr. Coker is considered by the governmental financial institution regulators to be not only a skilled turnaround manager who can solve problems and increase shareholder value, but also knowledgeable in corporate governance issues and an expert on ethics matters involving financial, corporate, and business issues.
Mr. Coker is a court-recognized expert in finance, management, operating policies & procedures, and business valuation, having been engaged by numerous major law firms to assist them as an expert witness consultant in over 365 cases nationwide. He has testified 93 times nationwide as an expert in banking, business, valuation, financial, regulatory, and related matters.
Mr. Coker's clients have included eight of the top ten banks in the United States, foreign banks, and major corporations such as Walmart, Sears, IBM, State Farm, St. Paul Travelers, Ford Credit; and governmental entities such as the FDIC, IRS (7 times), FSLIC, FHLBB, Federal Reserve Bank, RTC, Department of Education, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Agency for International Development; and foreign governmental and corporate clients such as the International Accounting Standards Board (London), Ukrainian Accounting Reform Project, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Tanzanian Revenue Authority, and many others. Of the top 250 law firms in the United States, 27 have engaged Mr. Coker as their expert witness consultant.
Countries for which Mr. Coker has provided expertise in one form or another include the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, and many others.
As a corporate lender, mortgage banker, and consultant, Mr. Coker has provided reliable financial and management service and advice to corporations for over thirty-five years.
By possesssing superior business valuation and asset valuation skills as well as proven management skills, Mr. Coker is capable of quickly determining which activities are of value to a business and which activities are not, and quantifying these activities in terms of how they affect the value of the enterprise. This is a basic step in increasing enterprise and shareholder value.
Similarly, Mr. Coker is adept at improving workflow procedures that increase efficiency and improve cash flow.
Mr. Coker possesses the experience, clarity of thought, integrity, communications skills, and discipline required to turn difficult management situations into manageable ones.
No management assignment is considered too challenging to undertake.
Mr. Coker's education includes:
* University of Alabama, BA.
* University of Alabama, post-graduate work.
* University of Houston, post-graduate work.
* Southern Methodist University, TX, executive education work.
* Spring Hill College, AL, masters-level work.
* Harvard Business School, MA.
* Certificate in Business Valuation.
Mr. Coker serves clients nationwide and worldwide from his northern metro Atlanta, GA USA office.
Please refer to the Bank Consulting Website link provided below to access his full curriculum vitae.
Don Coker's Representative Client List
Banking:
The World Bank
Citigroup/CitiFinancial
Bank of America
Bank of America - Canada
NationsBank
Bank One (now JPMorgan Chase Bank)
Chase Home Loans
Wachovia Bank
First Union Bank
Firstar/U.S. Bancorp
Washington Mutual Bank
SouthTrust Bank
Wells Fargo Bank
Wells Fargo Mortgage Corp.
National City (Bank) Corporation
MBNA America Bank
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania
Royal Bank of Scotland Group, plc
Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Capital.
First National Bank of San Marcos, TX
Banco Industrial de Venezuela
Bank of Oklahoma
Southern Security Bank
First National Bank of Palm Beach
First Bank, Tallahassee, FL
Sunbelt Savings (now Bank of America)
Sunbelt Federal Bank
Bancomer, S.A. (Mexico)
Bluebonnet Savings
Standard Pacific Savings Bank
First National Bank of Brewton
Southeast Bank of Miami, FL
Barnett Banks, Inc.
Bank of the Southwest
Community National Bank, Midland, TX
Northshore Bank, TX
Bank of Bentonville, AR (Owned by Walton Family)
Priority Bancorp
PanAmerican Bank
KeyCorp
Iowa Trust
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Bilbao and Madrid, Spain)
Tanzania Institute of Bankers
Bank of Tanzania (central bank)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Goldome Realty Credit Corp.
Western Gulf Savings & Loan (now Wells Fargo)
American Savings & Loan
William E. Wood & Associates (Towne Bank, VA)
EDS - BEI Golembe Consultants
Bank Insurance and Securities Association
Governmental:
FDIC
Resolution Trust Corp.
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
Farm Credit Bank
U.S. Department of Education, Inspector General's Office
Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Treasury Department
U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
State of Texas, Savings & Loan Department (Regulators)
13 Municipalities in CA and CO
Tanzania Revenue Authority
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
U.S. Agency for International Development (Washington, D.C.; Kiev, Ukraine; Moscow, Russia)
U.S. Air Force (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) Judge Advocate General's Corps Office of Special Investigations
New York Governor George Pataki's Office of Regulatory Reform
Insurance:
AIG
CNA
St. Paul Travelers Insurance
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Acadia Insurance Co.
Erie Insurance Group
Employers Mutual Insurance Co.
Physicians Mutual Insurance Co.
Physicians Life Insurance Co.
State Farm Insurance Co.
Military Premium Managers
Reliance Insurance
International Transport Intermediaries Club, Ltd., UK
North River Insurance Co.
American Casualty Insurance Co.
National Union Fire Insurance Co.
Continental Casualty Insurance Co.
Lloyds of London, UK
Crum & Forster Managers
Xerox Financial Services
Thomas Miller & Company, UK
Corporate:
Ford Motor Credit Company
Cisco Systems
IBM - Lotus Development
Kawasaki
Intuit, Inc.
Walmart Stores
Fraud Discovery Institute
Doral Mortgage Corp.
Ambassador Mortgage
Security Properties
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP (CPAs)
Prentice Hall Publishing
Central Financial Services
NAPA Auto Parts
Pioneer Financial Services
Sansbury Ace Hardware
Madison Equity Mortgage Co.
Darryl's Restaurants
Bosler & Hashioka Developers
Sears
Scorpion International Services, S.A., (Athens, Greece)
Heritage Motels. Inc.
Sunrise Gardens Apartments, Las Vegas, NV
Barron's Educational Software
Anco Merchandising
Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons International Association
Network Software Associates
Calco Aerospace
Midwest Merger Management
Education Central, Inc. (USVI)
Ruby Tuesday
Remington Investments
Inverelle, Inc.
Alpha Software
Phivos Karnaos (London & Moscow)
Simon & Schuster Publishing
The King Edward Inn (Canada)
Jancik Concrete Specialties
Keytronics
Concord Boat Corp.
NBI Software
Houlihan's Restaurants
Sprint/Nextel
Ukrainian Accounting Reform Project (Kiev, Ukraine)
International Accounting Standards Board Foundation (London)
Stanford Carr - Ewa Development Company (Hawai'i)
Royster-Clark Agribusiness
American Consolidated Credit
Specialty Motor Cars
George B. Kaiser, Forbes 400 List
ButtonWare Software (PC Calc+)
Fillette Green Shipping
Zapadnoe Koltze (Moscow, Russia)
Benchmarking Partners
Gary Tharaldson, Forbes 400 List
Boston Credit Corp.
Dr. Richard Dombroff
Morrison's Cafeterias
Transcontinental Products & Services
Reynolds Lumber Company
Broderbund Software
Marchese Chevrolet
Surgency
Westat
Computer Associates
AvtoVAZ (Russia's largest car company - LADA automobiles)
AutoVAZBank (Tagliatti, Russia)
Import Specialists
Timeworks Software
Fleming Electric Co.
WordStar
Christian Bay Shipping Company
Cliff's Notes Publishing
DataEase International
CreditCare Credit Counseling
AddStor Software
Olympic Cube
Kilimanjaro International (Africa)
Chemonics International
Institute for Stock Market and Management (Moscow, Russia)
This website will be augmented as time permits. In the meantime, please refer to Mr. Coker's Curriculum Vitae which is incorporated into his Bank Consulting website which is linked below.
Some Key Words to Help Locate this Website:
Board of Directors
Business Ethics
Chief Executive Officer
Corporate Governance
Director
Ethics
Financial Ethics
Interim Manager
Project Manager
Transitional Manager
Troubled Debt Restructuring
Turnaround Manager
Turnaround CEO
Turnaround Specialist
Crisis Manager
Corporate Restructuring Specialist
Previous Websites Included for Reference Purposes:
http://firms.findlaw.com/Bankexpert/
http://firms.findlaw.com/CheckFraud/
http://firms.findlaw.com/BusinessValuation/
http://firms.findlaw.com/BusinessPlans/
http://home.talkcity.com/PresidioDr/bankexpert/DonCoker.html
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