Janice Hollar, Senior Vice President of RP® Financial, LC., directs RP Financial’s financial advisory, strategic planning and management consulting services to the credit union industry, capitalizing on her successful career in executive management at credit unions as well as several years as an independent consultant to the industry. In this capacity, Ms. Hollar draws on her extensive credit union experience as well as RP®’s extensive valuation experience, expertise and proprietary systems to advise and assist credit unions with strategic and business planning, pre- and post-merger business valuations, goodwill impairment analyses, branching strategies including expansion and sales, charter conversion analyses and complying with regulatory directives such as a Letter of Understanding or a Cease and Desist Order. Additionally she assists credit unions evaluating the business impact and contingent strategies in the face of possible regulatory changes such as implementation of the Community Reinvestment Act, the prospective loss of tax-exempt status, higher capital requirements under the proposed Basel III and other external and internal factors that could have a material adverse impact on the credit union industry.

With RP Financial, she has been actively engaged in management studies for public banking companies subject to enforcement actions. Ms. Hollar is a frequent contributor to industry trade journals, and her articles about credit union issues have been published in industry trade journals. She has conducted webinars on industry matters, including liquidity, planning and risk mitigation in the credit union system. Ms. Hollar actively participates in credit union industry meetings, and frequently attends NCUA board meetings, congressional hearings on industry matters and trade association meetings.

She has worked in the financial services industry since 1979. Ms. Hollar has considerable executive management experience at credit unions with assets up to $1 billion, including the positions of Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Information Technology Executive. As a consultant to the financial services industry before joining RP Financial, she advised credit unions, insurance companies and credit union vendors in a variety of strategic, financial, management and technology matters. Ms. Hollar has worked extensively with credit union management teams, boards, regulators and auditors, and she is a Certified Chief Executive.

As a credit union executive, Ms. Hollar has implemented projects to improve competitive position, grow membership, modernize technology and branch infrastructure, streamline staffing levels, re-negotiate contracts and improve overall efficiency. She has led projects from core processor conversions to field of membership expansions and name changes. In her management consulting practice in Florida, Janice Hollar & Associates, LLC, she has assisted credit unions improve profitability through income generation and expense reduction initiatives, strategic growth planning, liquidity planning, pricing and allowance analyses, and “C” level consulting. Ms. Hollar started her career as a Management Consultant at KMG Main Hurdman in Dallas, Texas.

Ms. Hollar resides in Virginia. She has served on the board of the Florida Credit Union League Service Group, the Credit Union Cooperative Branching Board in Louisiana and the Chamber of Commerce. She earned her MBA from University of Texas at Dallas and her BA from University of Central Oklahoma.