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About ApexSpan

ApexSpan steps in quickly, stabilizes the organization, maintains cadence and prepares the institution for its next chapter.

Interim executive leadership for banks and credit unions navigating transition, disruption or growth.

A modern executive chair on wheels.

Nothing goes on hold.

A leadership gap does not pause any of it, and a search done right takes months.

An empty executive chair shows its rear shell toward the viewer, turned toward the bank office window; the open NINETY-DAY PLAN waits on the desk. The same bank office with the chair facing the viewer and occupied by an executive cropped at the shoulders, hands resting on the open NINETY-DAY PLAN; no face is visible.

Before

A departure leaves a month-end close that depends on individual heroics, a board packet nobody owns, and examiners without a senior counterpart.

Ninety days later

Ninety days later the close runs on a calendar, the board reads a packet it trusts, and the search can take the time it needs, because the seat is held.

An engagement starts with a plan you can read.

You bring us in to set the direction, get the work where it needs to be, and hand it to your own people.

Interim CEO

An experienced executive in the seat within weeks, on a ninety-day term with the end date in the scope.

A written ninety-day plan

In the first weeks the executive sets expectations directly with the CEO and the board: what will be done, in what order, and how it will be reported.

The transition to the permanent executive

We help recruit the permanent executive, build their 90-day onboarding plan, and brief the board before we step out. They inherit a team, not a gap.

The two offers

The executive you meet is the executive who takes the seat.

A written ninety-day plan beside a calendar with a defined beginning and end.

Interim executive leadership.

An experienced executive in the seat within weeks, on a ninety-day term with the end date in the scope.

A working board report and agenda with coaching notes in the margin.

Executive development.

Your next executive may already be on your team, and one to two years of real executive work will show it.

Who it is for

Credit unions and community banks bring the same seats and the same searches, so the practice serves both without preferring either.

A main-street building with COMMUNITY BANK and CREDIT UNION painted above its two entrances.

The advisors

The executive you meet is the executive who takes the seat.

Kevin O'Connor

Kevin O'Connor

Interim CEO and CFO

  • Interim CEO
  • Interim CFO
  • Interim COO

Kevin O'Connor has spent more than thirty years as an executive in regulated financial institutions, in CEO, CFO and COO roles.

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The first conversation commits you or your board to nothing.

Tell us where the gap is and how soon the seat has to be covered, and you will have a straight read within two business days.