Session Presenters
Debbie Smart
Senior Product Marketer, Commercial Solutions
Q2
Gita Thollesson
Manager, Strategic Advisory Services
Q2
Katherine Weislogel
EVP, Head of Treasury & Payment Solutions
Synovus Bank
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Debbie Smart
Senior Product Marketer, Commercial Solutions
Q2
As a senior product marketer at Q2, Debbie Smart uses her more than 40 years of banking and treasury management experience to influence Q2’s business product suite through market research and competitive intelligence. Debbie has been a featured speaker at industry conferences and served on multiple boards, councils, and task forces.
This white paper gives further perspective on how instant payments, along with innovations like ERP integration, are modernizing business-to-business payments, and this webinar with Keith Gray from The Clearing House and Dan Gonzalez from The Federal Reserve sheds more light on the need for banks to not just receive instant payments, but send them.
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Gita Thollesson
Manager, Strategic Advisory Services
Q2
Gita Thollesson is manager of the strategic advisory services at Q2. Her focus is on helping clients maximize relationship profitability through actionable market insights.
Prior to joining PrecisionLender a Q2 company, Ms. Thollesson spent 12 years at S&P Global Market Intelligence as director of analytics for S&P’s commercial loan middle and lower middle market information and advisory business, where she was charged with growing banks’ top-line revenue through proprietary fee, interest income and ROE enhancing initiatives within the constraints of competitive markets.
Ms. Thollesson has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, most of which has been in the global commercial banking market.
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Katherine Weislogel
EVP, Head of Treasury & Payment Solutions
Synovus Bank
Katherine Weislogel is executive vice president and head of treasury and payment solutions at Synovus Bank. Ms. Weislogel’s responsibilities include oversight of the bank’s treasury management and liquidity solutions, management and development of international and commercial card sales, implementation and onboarding of new products and services, development of sales resource and technical sales consultants, and pricing, billing and risk management of all TPS products and services. She also leads the design and go-to-market strategy of all new TPS products and solutions, including development of sales strategies’ initiatives and client-engagement process design, starting with a consultative sales approach.
Ms. Weislogel is on the bank’s executive leadership team, operating committee, executive risk committee, fraud steering committee, asset-liability committee, lead advisory committee, financial institutions committee and executive sponsor of the W.IS.E ERG.
Prior to joining Synovus Bank, Ms. Weislogel served a dual role as managing director and team leader at BMO Bank in Columbus, OH.
Breakout 6: Building Strong Foundations: Enhancing Commercial Relationships in Today’s Market
As banks and credit unions continue to adjust to the new normal of today’s interest rate environment, they must modify strategies and business practices for continued growth and profitability. A focus on building strong, robust and lucrative commercial relationships is at the heart of those strategies for many financial institutions, and cross-selling is more important than ever. What are the must-have offerings and capabilities that make commercial clients willing to go deeper with your FI?