Robert J. Sanders

Managing Director
Email address: rsanders@kafafiangroup.com
Extension Number: 130

Mr. Sanders is Managing Director of The Kafafian Group, Inc. and has participated in various operations/systems consulting and strategic planning engagements over the past several years. He has over 35 years of consulting experience in Community and Regional Banks. He has managed the evaluation and selection of both hardware and software for over fifteen financial institutions including developing RFP requirements, evaluation criteria, and negotiating final contracts. Mr. Sanders’ experience spans from microcomputer to mainframe management and application software including utilizing various Financial Profitability Software. In addition, he has extensive experience in Trust Operations, identifying cost savings and revenue enhancements for clients.

Mr. Sanders was a Senior Vice President at Financial Information, Inc., which provided daily information on corporate reorganizations, called bonds, put options and warrants to over 2,000 banks and broker/dealers worldwide where he was responsible for new product development, operations, marketing and sales. Revenues and net income doubled during his three-year tenure. Mr. Sanders was Chairman of Brown, Sanders & Associates, Inc., where he concentrated his efforts on trust cost accounting profitability software and security operations, implementing the software in over two hundred Banks. He was also President of System Consultants Group, a consulting and software company. He also worked for KPMG in their management consulting department for seven years where he was responsible for all of their financial institutions consulting practice in the Southeastern United States. He was previously associated with IBM as a Systems Engineer.

As a U.S. Army Airborne/Ranger Captain, he served two tours of duty in Vietnam as an advisor to the only Vietnamese Airborne Division. He was awarded the Bronze Star, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and Vietnamese Jump Wings as well as five other medals.

Mr. Sanders is a Certified Public Accountant and graduate of Bucknell University. He has attended numerous IBM management and programming schools and researched, developed and taught the only KPMG consulting class utilizing audit related software.