History of Engagements

CAMELS Consulting Group has directly worked with both the Board and management of community banks throughout the United States to revitalize their business strategies. The map below represents a partial listing of client financial institutions that we have worked with to increase shareholder returns. Client listings address a range of engagements focusing on capital-based advisory services of expanding liquidity, Fair Market Value (FMV), price to book multiples, and re-inventing the shareholder base in the local community bank. Banks have director and management succession plans, CAMELS focuses on shareholder succession planning. CAMELS provides a wide range of shareholder products and tools. The service capabilities identified through this breakout of client institutions and the specific support areas is not limited to stated areas but is offered as an indication of the depth and scope of CAMELS’ capabilities.

Three Decades of Experience

Ed Schmidt has worked within the community bank sector for more than three decades. He has provided bank consultative services to community banks in the following states:

AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY DC

“CAMELS provided guidance in capital expansion, as we navigated through a stock split, a successful acquisition and capital offering.  Important to our shareholder and new investor identification program has been utilizing the CAMELS Financial Optics Report.”

Chad L. Hoffman

President & CEO, Richwood Bancshares, Inc./The Richwood Banking company