Advisory Panel Member Profile

Asif Dakri

CEO

Areas of Expertise:

Leading Your New Team – The One You Just Inherited, Leading Your Team Through Change

Asif Dakri is the Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Wallis Bank.  Mr. Dakri joined the Bank in 2002 and has been instrumental in aggressively growing the Bank over the past eighteen years.  During his tenure, the Bank’s asset size has more than tripled and its geographic footprint has expanded to the cities of San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta and Los Angeles.  The Bank is consistently ranked as one of the highest performing banks in the country.  

Mr. Dakri has been instrumental in keeping the Bank focused on its expertise on small business and commercial lending. The Bank has been recognized as a top SBA lender in the Houston Region for several years, competing against the likes of Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.  Mr. Dakri recently completed a three year term as a board member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking in Washington DC.

Prior to joining Wallis Bank, Mr. Dakri worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting division for PricewaterhouseCoopers in both North America and Europe, advising multinational corporations including Shell, Ford, Prudential, and Bank of America.  Before PricewaterhouseCoopers, he spent several years at Deloitte and Touche LLP as a senior auditor for SEC companies in both the oil & gas industry and chemical industry.  Mr. Dakri is a CPA and a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin where he obtained his Bachelors in Business Administration with Honors in Accounting.

Mr. Dakri is also active within the Houston business community giving speeches on financing challenges faced by small businesses.  He serves as a speaker and panel member for the University of Houston’s S.U.R.E. program.  Mr. Dakri is also an Advisory Director for America’s SBDC and a Director at Large of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston.

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