Sydney Menefee is a partner at Crowe LLP in the growth and intelligence group based in Washington, D.C. She has 20 years of experience working with financial institutions. She is focused on regulatory and strategic risk and enabling market-leading vision and perspective in executing high-profile engagements.

Ms. Menefee joined Crowe after nearly 13 years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) where she most recently served as the senior deputy comptroller for midsize and community bank supervision. In this role, she was responsible for supervising nearly 1,100 national banks and federal savings associations and managing a nationwide team of 1,400 bank examiners. She served on the OCC’s executive committee, committee on bank supervision and the Major Matters supervisory review committee. She additionally was commissioned as a national bank examiner and served as the deputy comptroller and chief accountant while at the OCC.