Tom Jasper is an accomplished executive leader, an experienced board director and agile thinker in terms of shareholder value creation. He leverages his strategic planning skills and financial acumen to create transformative business plans that drive future success. He has a track-record of providing counsel to both CEO’s and Boards on critical topics such as organizational design, corporate development, succession planning, regulatory topics, government relations, M&A and board development. Harnessing his intuitive capabilities, he quickly guides discussions towards strategies with the highest level of potential impact within an acceptable level of execution risk.Tom currently serves as EVP Chief Operating Officer of Choice Bank, a $4.95 billion bank headquartered in ND with operations in ND, MN and across the U.S. through its BaaS platform. Tom is a member of the Leadership Team at Choice and works alongside the CFO, Chief Banking Officer and President of Choice Financial Services in their important roles that drive customer and stakeholder success. Prior, Tom served in an executive leadership capacity at TCF Financial Corporation (TCF, $1.04 B revenue, $23.7 B assets). He had progressive experience - from CFO, to multiple business line leadership roles, and ultimately as Vice Chairman & COO overseeing strategy and corporate development. While serving as CFO, he was on point for TCF’s denovo expansion into its commercial inventory finance business. He successfully negotiated key elements of the transaction and the resulting business grew to over $3B in assets with sustained levels of high profitability. As Vice Chairman & COO, he co-developed and led a new, comprehensive strategic planning process that, over the next several quarters, led to a unique merger of equals transaction with Chemical Bank. From a marketplace perspective, the announced transaction was the best received bank M&A transaction (valued at over $1 B) in the preceding two years.Mr. Jasper has extensive experience in public company, private company and non-profit board settings. He served as a Vice Chairman on the board of directors of TCF. Tom is regarded as an ethical business leader, independent thinker, and collaborative relationship builder. Tom has an extensive personal network across various industries, as well as significant experience in government and regulatory relations at a national level. Colleagues value his business agility, financial acumen, commitment to governance and his aptitude to focus the discussion on the most critical components of the board agenda.
Listed skills include Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Banking, and 8 others.
