Bio

Mr. Collins joined Northeast Capital in 2005 after spending seventeen years as a principal of HAS Associates, Inc., a comprehensive consulting group specializing in community banks. His practice includes strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, management and board assessments, executive searches, and regulatory compliance for community banks. Prior to HAS Associates, Mr. Collins served as an Executive Vice President and Director of Olympic International Bank & Trust Company, a Vice President of Shawmut Bank, and a Manager at Commercial Union Assurance Company. Mr. Collins has over thirty years of commercial banking experience and has acted as a financial advisor in over twenty bank mergers, sixteen successful president/ CEO and other senior officer executive searches, and over twenty-five board of director and executive management evaluations. Mr. Collins received his B.A. from Northeastern University and completed the School of Banking at Williams College. He has lectured at the Corporate Governance Seminar sponsored by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the New Jersey Department of Banking & Insurance.