The Bovenzi Group is a boutique consulting firm that provides advisory services for financial sector companies including banks, domestic and international financial regulatory agencies, private equity firms, and fin-tech companies.
Co-Founders John Bovenzi and Erica Bovenzi have decades of experiences in government and private industry. Our team recognizes and understands the varying interests and pressures on both sectors and how to effectively address their needs. Our goal is to resolve our clients’ immediate needs and to facilitate long term public and private working relationships.
Services Offered
Corporate Governance
Risk Management
Failed bank resolutions and receiverships
Regulatory compliance and remediation
Deposit insurance
New bank charters
Diversity and Human Resource strategies
Executive Coaching
We provide services to a variety of organizations, including:
Federally insured banks
Industrial Loan Companies
Private Equity Investors
International financial regulatory agencies
John Bovenzi is a Co-Founder of The Bovenzi Group
John Bovenzi
Mr. Bovenzi is a well-recognized expert in the US and international bank regulatory policy. He was a senior partner at Oliver Wyman from 2009 to 2020, where is worked on banking issues related to risk management, compliance, corporate governance, failure resolution, asset management and new bank charters. He also served as the Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s bank failure resolution task force.
Mr. Bovenzi had a distinguished career as a federal banking regulator and was a principal adviser to Nine Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC). From 1999 to 2009, he served as the Deputy to the Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, directing day to day operations for bank supervision, risk management, compliance, deposti insurance, failure resolution, and internal operations. In 2008, he served at the Chief Executive Officer of IndyMac Federal Bank while the bank was owned and operated by the FDIC. During his career, Mr.Bovenzi directed the FDIC’s bank closing and receivership management activities. he was instrumental in the start -up and management of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) until its statutory dissolution in 1995.
Mr. Bovenzi holds a PH.D. in Economics from Clark University and a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous publications including, “Inside the FDIC: Thirty Years of Bank Failures,Bailouts, and Regulatory BAttles” and was the Chief Editor of “Managing the Crisis, the FDIC and RTC Experience.”
Erica Bovenzi
Ms. Bovenzi is a seasoned executive with a proven record of leading corporate and organizational change in periods of crisis, growth and development.
From 2010 to 2013, Ms. Bovenzi served as the Chief Administrative Officer of Promontory Financial Group, a global financial services consulting group. She successfully supported the organization in a period of rapid multi-national growth in business, staff and facilities.
Previously, Ms. Bovenzi enjoyed a distinguished 20 year career as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Resolution Trust Corporation. In this role she provided legal support for all aspects of corporate operations including statutory compliance, governance, ethics, contracting, human resources, employment litigation and outside counsel management.
As part of her focus on organizational growth, diversity, and leadership, Ms. Bovenzi has spent much of her career serving as a mentor and executive coach, including serving as the Dean of the FDIC’s Corporate University School of Leadership.
Addtionally , Ms. Bovenzi served as counsel for the International Association of Deposit Insurers.
Ms. Bovenzi has a Juris Doctor from ST. John’s University School of Law and a B.S. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.