Prior to joining Hipereon, he served as senior consultant with Moss Adams Advisory Services, a division of Moss Adams, LLP, the largest accounting and consulting firm headquartered on the West Coast. He specialized in the credit delivery processes of financial institutions and the financial management of small businesses. Devine has also been CEO of two manufacturing businesses and served ten years with Seattle First National Bank as vice president and manager of the bank’s trust business management and business advisory services departments. He was a faculty member of the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University, the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, and for the past 19 years has coordinated the business banking curriculum at the prestigious Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania. Devine co-authored Risk Management Associates’ Understanding Your Small Business Customer training series. He has trained thousands of commercial lenders, business owners and accountants throughout the world.
Hipereon, Inc., Redmond, Wash., is a nationally recognized financial consulting firm that was formed in 2001 by a unique team of prominent bankers and industry consultants dedicated to the growth and profitability of small businesses and their financial services providers. Hipereon provides new, tactical and technological strategies, giving clients a road map to establish more competitive, proactive and profitable working relationships. The principals of Hipereon have more than 50 years of experience developing, facilitating and implementing training programs for business owners and lenders across the U.S. and in 37 other countries.