“We don’t add to our bench often. But when someone truly exceptional crosses our path, we move—and Prescott Ford is exactly that.”
— Carissa Robb, Managing Partner, SolomonEdwards Banking & Financial Services
SolomonEdwards is proud to welcome Prescott Ford, CFA to our Banking & Financial Services practice as Principal. Prescott brings something genuinely rare to our clients: the perspective of a regulator who supervised the most complex institutions in the world and yet also values community institutions.
While at the OCC for over 20 years, Prescott served as a Large Bank Supervision Technical Team Lead and resident staff examiner at Citibank and JPMorgan Chase evaluating capital (Basel III / CCAR / DFAST), model risk management, retail credit, internal audit, enterprise risk management and governance at the highest level of complexity. He has led teams and served as Examiner-in-Charge in both the issuance of and closure of Enforcement Actions and other Matters. He coordinated with the Federal Reserve, FDIC, Bank of England, PRA, Bank of Japan and other international regulators.
In Midsize and Community Bank Supervision as a Supervisory National Bank Examiner and Resource Team Manager he led a national team of specialists in Capital Markets, Retail Credit and Mortgage Banking. His work earned repeated recognition from the Comptroller’s Office and five U.S. Treasury Awards. In the private sector, Prescott provided credit unions and community banks with regulatory risk management advisory services, preventing and remediating regulatory issues in hundreds of institutions. In house, Prescott launched Fitch Ratings’ global compliance testing function, that the SEC judged as “robust” in regulatory examinations.
Experience
- Citibank – Technical Team Lead and Resident Examiner
- JPMorgan Chase – Resident Examiner
- Regional Banks & Community Banks – Resource Team Manager
- Credit Unions – Industry Consultant
Prescott’s Areas of Expertise
Regulatory Risk Management
- Regulatory Strategy
- Exam Readiness
- CAMELS Protection
- Enforcement Action/ Matters Remediation
Risk & Compliance
- Treasury IRR/Liquidity
- Mortgage Banking
- Retail Credit
- Operational Risk
- Internal Audit
- Governance
Capital & ERM
- Capital Optimization
- Basel III / IV Prep
- CCAR / DFAST
- Risk Appetite
- Board Reporting
- Risk Frameworks
AI Governance & MRM
- AI Governance Framework
- Model Risk Management
- AI Retail Credit and Support Processes
WHY THIS HIRE MATTERS
The SolomonEdwards Standard
“We are highly selective about who we add at the Principal level,
because that title means something at SolomonEdwards.
We pursue operator-level talent: people who have sat inside the most complex institutions in the world, made consequential decisions, and earned the trust of clients and regulators alike. Prescott is that person. Candidates like Prescott don’t come along often, and when they do, we don’t hesitate.”
— Carissa Robb
Managing Partner
Banking & Financial Services
