Creighton Oswald, CMB

Creighton Oswald is a Certified Mortgage Banker (“CMB”) and financial services professional with 30 years of experience in mortgage and consumer lending, capital markets, risk and regulatory compliance. Creighton partners with Board, C-suite and senior business leaders to support strategic growth and transformation initiatives, solve complex operations and risk management issues, and drive greater efficiency and profitability within an organization.

Before joining FTI Consulting, Creighton’s career trajectory included tenured stops at Merrill Lynch, Daimler Benz, JP Morgan Chase, BBVA Compass (Now PNC) and Texas Capital Bank. Most recently, he served as Chief Lending Officer for consumer portfolios at First United Bank, where he was responsible for strategically driving origination’s growth, expanding the capital markets investor shelf and overseeing risk for the firm’s mortgage servicing asset.

Over the span of his career, Creighton has helped lead several de novo corporate lending and servicing startups inside U.S. federally regulated financial institutions. He has also coordinated major business transition and restructuring operations missions both in the United States and abroad. Internationally, Creighton was responsible for building and overseeing a $25 billion distressed asset lending and servicing operation in Mexico. In addition, he has coordinated both commercial and residential due diligence, acquisition and audit activities for U.S. institutional investors and in-country seller counterparties to drive strategic outcomes and mitigate financial risk across Latin America.