Biography

Howard Atkins, a seasoned financial executive, currently owns and operates a consulting company that helps businesses improve their operating margins and develop/execute company-specific growth strategies. He is a former Chief financial officer of Wells Fargo where he helped successfully lead the bank through the 2008 financial crises and where he organized the acquisition of Wachovia bank, creating the most prominent coast to coast bank in the US at that time . Prior to being CFO at Wells Fargo, he was CFO of New York Life Insurance Company, where he helped identify and acquire non-US insurance organizations as part of NYLife’s international expansion strategy, CFO of Midlantic Bank which successfully completed a top-to-bottom financial restructuring, and Corporate Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank where he was responsible for several of that Bank’s markets businesses in the US, Europe and Asia. Howard has extensive experience as a Board member, having served as a Director of Occidental Petroleum (a large energy exploration and carbon sequester company), Ingram Micro (the worlds largest tech distributor), and Express Scripts (the country’s largest pharmacy benefits manager)