Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Monument, CO, Lodestone Banking Consultancy, Inc. specializes in the comprehensive analysis of core banking systems, operations, and business policies for financial institutions of all sizes.
Our mission is to identify and implement revenue enhancement opportunities that other consulting firms, accounting firms, and internal teams routinely miss. We are unique because we act not just as consultants, but as teachers—showing banks how to ensure their operations are optimized for maximum, recurring revenue while staying fully aligned with regulatory requirements.
In over 30 years, we have never achieved our results through layoffs, branch closures, cost cuts, or fee increases. Every dollar we find is already there—it simply hasn't been collected.
President and co-founder of Lodestone Banking, Shahin Clark has more than 30 years of bank consulting experience with financial institutions in the United States, Hong Kong, and Puerto Rico. She is not a stranger to analytical consulting—she grew up watching her father run the internal consulting division at a major international oil consulting company, and she absorbed the discipline of always delivering outstanding results for clients.
Shahin began her own consulting career at Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC), working in their bank-wide internal consulting division. Over the past 30+ years, she has led more than 75 deep-penetrating consulting engagements for 55 financial institutions ranging from $200 million to over $35 billion in assets.
Her methodology has been recognized by the American Bankers Association magazine as "forensic revenue analysis." She has been invited by the Chinese government to Beijing to lecture on bank profitability, and she presents regularly to finance students at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Education: B.S. in Management Information Systems & B.S. in Marketing, Syracuse University; Business degree, Pitman College, London, England.
sclark@lodestonebanking.com
Senior Vice President and Managing Partner, Mark Clark is the co-founder of Lodestone Banking Consultancy, Inc. Clark is responsible for client relationships, project management, and operational oversight. He has successfully brought together accomplished bank consulting professionals and integrated their individual skill sets into Lodestone's core service offerings.
Clark has more than 30 years of account relationship management and marketing experience across several industries. Under his guidance, Lodestone has built nationwide consulting relationships that utilize a high expertise–low leverage model—one that thrives in the highly competitive bank consulting arena.
In 1998, Mr. Clark was invited to Beijing by the Chinese government to lecture on the subject of "Bank Profit Improvement."
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