Laila Samawi-Utley Email and Phone Number

Laila Samawi-Utley co-founded ResiliEnt Business Solutions on best of class strategies, operational & technical solutions known for improved efficiency & increased profitability. Serving as CEO, CIO, CFO & COO in both public & private industry she leveraged her 20+ years’ experience in organizational change management, operations management, enterprise security, compliance management, facilities management, vendor, contract and asset management, financial management, technical management & the delivery of enterprise wide strategies and solutions. She gained her experience with financial institutions such as SunTrust Bank, Bank of America, Amegy Bank, CompuBank & NetB@nk. At LSUnlimited Consulting her clients enjoyed successful, innovative, adaptable solutions that delivered C-suite agility, improved business performance and tangible Return on Investment (ROI). At ResiliEnt she is focused on optimization of operational efficiency, business process improvement & an unwavering commitment to customer self-sufficiency & sustainability. Resilient enjoys a 90+% return on engagement because ResiliEnt is committed to enabling clients to become process & data driven organizations according to their business requirements, on their terms. ResiliEnt is known for taking a customer's vision and making it the reality. Her career includes founding manager, COO & CTO of CompuBank & the CIO & EVP of Operations at NetB@nk. She gained vast business experience & the reputation as a proven leader, with a track record of building quality teams that receive national recognition and honors. As COO and CTO of CompuBank she took a concept and delivered the 1st nationally chartered virtual bank. CompuBank, named "Number 1 Online Bank" by SmartMoney magazine, "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine and attracted 2nd round funding from GE Finance, SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, & Marsh McLennan.Laila Samawi-Utley has an MBA from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Arts in Business.Specialties: Strategic Planning, Organizational Change, BPM, Risk Mitigation, Business Analytics, Regulatory Compliance, Project Management, Business intelligence/Data Warehouse, Cost Reduction, Asset/Vendor Management, Contract Negotiation, Business Continuity, Documentation, Financials, Technology, E-commerce, Payment Systems, Process Automation, Infrastructure Development (call centers & critical processing data centers),Conversions, Real Time Transactional Data Warehouses & Customer Self-Service Systems.