PATRICK BLOUNT

President & CEO

Patrick Blount, President and CEO, has over 18 years experience in loan sales management. He served as Managing Director of Loan Sales for the Debt Exchange, as an Acquisition Specialist for Security National Servicing Corporation, as Partner and Managing Director of the NPA Group (a loan sale advisory firm), and as Senior Vice President of Koll-Dove (loan sale advisors). Pat began his career as a licensed real estate broker in Houston, Texas in 1976 and prior to focusing on the loan industry, he was President and CEO of a firm which specialized in real-estate partnerships and resort hotel financing. Pat founded BENEWOLF in February of 2007, and in one short year established the company as a nationally-recognized leader in the loan sales industry. BENEWOLF works with banks nationwide to guide them through every aspect of managing under-performing loan portfolios and REO properties. Currently, Pat serves on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Chapter of Risk Management Associates and is membership chairperson (RMA); he is also on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Chapter of Turnaround Management Associates (TMA) and he is also Chairman and Executive Director of the Tyler Blount Memorial Foundation. Pat is a nationally recognized speaker and has spoken in 2008 at The East Coast Distressed Debt Conference in New York City; The West Coast Distressed Debt Conference in Los Angeles California; Distressed Real Estate West in Huntington Beach, California and was the moderator and keynote speaker for Loancowboys,LLC “What Every Banker Needs To Know About Selling Loans” conferences in both Clearwater, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia. Pat has recently been recruited by the Florida Bankers Association to develop and moderate a conference entitled “Weathering the Storm” which will be held on January 29, 209 in Orlando. He is also a featured speaker at TMA’s 2009 Spring Conference in Chicago.

Pat, “in his spare time,” is the contributing author for the loan sale blog “Benewolf…on Banking” www.benewolf.typepad.com and "Benewolf... on Lending" www.benewolf.typepad.com/benewolf_on_lending.