Thomas Halverson Email & Phone Number

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

CoBank is a $120 billion cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states. CoBank is a proud member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. As CoBank’s chief executive officer, I am responsible for implementing the bank’s strategic and business direction as set by the Board of Directors. I am focused on managing the bank for the long-term and working to ensure that CoBank offers our customer-owners the financial products and services they need to run successful businesses.I am the chairman of CoBank’s Management Executive Committee and also serve as chairman and director of CoBank’s wholly owned subsidiary Farm Credit Leasing.****************CoBank offers careers with a purposeVisit our career site and stand for something: http://www.cobank.com/careers

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

As Chief Banking Officer I was responsible for the growth, profitability and soundness of CoBank’s Regional Agribusiness, Corporate Agribusiness, Communications, Project Finance and Power, Energy & Utilities banking groups, and providing superior customer service to customer-owners within those lending groups. I focused on developing and implementing business strategies that highlighted CoBank’s strengths and achieved the bank’s Board approved portfolio goals.

New York, New York, Us

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.In this role, I had broad and diverse leadership responsibilities within GS Bank senior management and reported to the chief executive officer. I was responsible for the content and organization of Board, Management and Operating (Executive) Committees and managing relationships with and among GS Bank and GS Group affiliate companies that provide clients, transactions and services to the bank. Additionally, I was responsible for all vendor and relationship management of internal and external service providers, and regulatory relations and supervisory standing of the Bank, supervision of hundreds of bank and affiliate employees, and all aspects of internal communications.

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

Led the organization and build-out of the Utah state-chartered and FDIC-insured ILC bank. Upgraded and reorganized bank management and led the establishment of infrastructure, controls, governance and the integration of the bank with GS Group, Inc., as it grew to become a $25 billion balance sheet bank (measured by total assets) before its conversion into a New York state chartered Fed-member bank as part of GS Group Inc. conversion to a Bank Holding Company.

New York, New York, Us

Worked as the head of credit risk management and advisory across all Asia ex-Japan (AEJ) industries, countries and products in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Australasia and Korea and as the senior credit officer responsible for final approval decisions all products and client groups throughout AEJ.

New York, New York, Us

Served as senior sovereign risk manager for the European time zone with responsibility for country risk analysis, country credit risk management and sovereign and sovereign-linked credit ratings advisory for countries and clients across the EU, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East.

London, Gb

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies.While working at the EBRD, I served as primary manager of EBRD internal country risk assessment and risk-based pricing processes as well as an as an advisor to the bank's Credit Committee and senior management for public and private sector project finance structure and pricing, particularly electric utilities, throughout EBRD countries of operations.

D.Phil, War Studies

A.B., Political Science And Government