Mike Kennedy is a co-founder and chief strategy officer at Green Check Verified. His background is in helping community financial institutions leverage technology to better manage their compliance and risk functions, and he has helped hundreds of institutions develop and implement bespoke compliance programs.

Prior to co-founding Green Check Verified, Mr. Kennedy helped scale Continuity, the first SaaS-based compliance management system for community financial institutions.

Frank Smith is senior vice president and deposit operations administrator at Republic Bank of Arizona. His depth of knowledge and experience in the operations, compliance and risk management side of banking are valuable assets to the bank. Having worked for several regional and community banks in the valley, his range of experience includes IT, fraud prevention, risk management, bank secrecy act activities and other general operations responsibilities. One of the more fascinating and unique areas of banking that Mr. Smith has developed a keen specialty in is marijuana-related business (MRB) banking.

Prior to joining RBAZ, Mr. Smith developed the MRB banking program for another local community bank. After more than 4 years running the program there, he’s become one of a select few experts in the industry. In addition to his responsibilities in operations, Mr. Smith is building an MRB banking program for RBAZ.