Edward T. Lutz

Managing Director
Email address: elutz@kafafiangroup.com
Extension Number: 122

Mr. Lutz is Managing Director of The Kafafian Group, Inc. and is primarily responsible for financial advisory, strategic planning, and profitability analysis.

He is an experienced banking professional with over twenty-five years experience in bank regulation, M&A, dealing with troubled financial institutions, strategic planning and structuring financial transactions. His entire career has been in and around the banking industry. He was a career bank regulator holding senior positions in Washington, D.C. and in New York with the FDIC. Over the last 15 years he has specialized in investment banking and consulting to bank and thrift institutions. These pursuits have included advising on mergers and acquisitions, raising capital in both public and private transactions, and advising in strategic planning and regulatory consulting engagements.

He is a member of the board of directors of two commercial banks in the New York area, one a private bank and the other a New York Stock Exchange company, where he serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Most recently he has advised on mergers and acquisitions with a number of business combinations involving small to mid-sized commercial banks and thrifts. He has also advised on the sale of financial services related firms in both the consumer and commercial marketplace, and frequently provides expert witness testimony on bank-related matters.

Mr. Lutz has a B.A. in Economics from Hofstra University and an M.B.A. from American University in Washington, D.C.