Walter J. Mix III is a Managing Director, works with The Secura Group’s domestic and foreign bank clients on risk management, strategic planning and financial advisory assignments. He has significant experience in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, de novo financial institutions, regulatory compliance, capital planning and reengineering, and technology to improve profitability and the development of risk management processes. He speaks frequently before bankers’ groups and regulatory seminars.

Prior to joining Secura, Mr. Mix held the post of Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Institutions (DFI). In this position, he reorganized the DFI and improved the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department. Mr. Mix worked with financial institutions on more than sixty mergers and acquisitions and the formation of fifty de novo institutions. He was instrumental in the development and passage of California ’s identity theft law and many other laws including the interstate banking and branching law and cooperative supervisory agreements for domestic and foreign banks. Mr. Mix also spearheaded proposals designed to enhance financial institutions’ electronic banking and commerce capabilities.

Mr. Mix is a graduate of the University of California and earned a master’s degree with a concentration in economics and public policy from Rutgers University. Mr. Mix serves as chairman of the International Bankers Association of California.