David DeFazio
StrategyCorps

Armed with a passion for banking strategy, StrategyCorps partner Dave DeFazio has found great success and satisfaction in exploring the intersection of data, marketing, and technology.

Dave’s extensive financial services experience and continuous research in the field help him ensure that each product and service meets the needs of today’s financial institutions. At StrategyCorps, he leads and manages the company’s direct sales efforts while working directly with financial institutions to design, build, and implement a variety of checking solutions.

He downloads banking apps for fun. On the weekend. And talks about them at dinner with his family. Across the industry, Dave is a highly sought-after speaker who has shared thought leadership on innovations in financial technology, retail banking, mobile banking, customer engagement, product, and customer profitability, product design, bank marketing, and changing consumer behaviors in an increasingly mobile-centric world.

Dave graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics.

Trent Fleming
Trent Fleming Consulting

For more than 40 years, Trent Fleming has helped hundreds of banks make wise strategic decisions about the optimum use of their management and technology resources.

As a consultant, Fleming was a pioneer in the introduction of check imaging technology to the community bank markets. More recently, he has replicated that success with other emerging technologies, including Internet Banking, Remote Deposit Capture, and Mobile Banking. Fleming’s ability to assist banks in training employees and educating customers about the benefits of products and services results in a positive experience as emerging technologies are introduced.

He has consulted with banks on matters as diverse as strategic planning, business continuity, and operational efficiency. His background includes correspondent banking, regulatory compliance, and industry experience as a sales operation executive with two large banking software vendors.

He serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, the Advanced Banking School at Penn State University, and the Florida Bankers Association’s Banking School at the University of Florida. He regularly contributes articles to industry publications and publishes a newsletter and blog at www.bankinginsights.blogspot.com. Trent holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from Christian Brothers University.