Richard W. George, Partner


SPECIALTY AREA: Global Financial Institutions

Richard George provides extensive consulting services to banks and financial institutions on a global basis and litigation services through Vx Associates in the United States. Richard George has 35+ years experience as a seasoned executive and educator in the financial services industry. After receiving his BA and MBA Degrees from University of California, Berkeley, he served as a McKinsey & Company Consultant before joining Citibank. During a 29-year career with the Bank, he served as a Senior Credit Officer and in a variety of senior management positions in several foreign countries and in the U.S.

Mr. George’s accomplishments include effecting a turnaround of Citibank’s Middle East regional loan administration and treasury operations center, negotiating a sovereign debt restructuring and workout plan for a major developing country, and establishing a business development strategy and executing a marketing plan for retail products in East Asia. Additionally, he was responsible for underwriting numerous commercial real estate projects for national developers; assessing problem resolution strategies for major real estate workouts in the U.S., Canada and Australia; managing a secured finance and securitization business; and launching global sales financing partnership programs with major corporate customers.

In his recent consulting practice, he served as interim-CEO of an internet bank in Washington, D.C., in order to sell the bank; conducted a training program for 250 bankers for the largest commercial bank in Korea; and provides ongoing expert support to law firms specializing in bank litigation. Mr. George is an Adjunct Professor in banking and finance at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and at the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.