Managing Member of TWK Advisors LLC
Thomas Killian is the Managing Member of TWK Advisors LLC, an advisory boutique specializing in advising investors and banking institutions considering strategic and regulatory capital strategies, balance sheet restructuring, and distressed bank acquisitions.
During his 45-year career in banking, including 32 years as a Partner and Managing Director at Sandler O’Neill and Piper Sandler, he completed over 58 transactions aggregating more than $20.5 billion in transaction value. Included among these transactions are 17 pooled trust preferred securitizations aggregating over $7 billion. He published more than 25 industry reports and comment letters covering complex regulatory and accounting considerations such as CECL, Basel III Endgame, TLAC and the Bank Merger Act that impact bank and non-bank financial institutions.
He advised numerous government agencies on significant large-scale projects for the U.S. Treasury and the FDIC. He has represented Sandler O’Neill and Piper Sandler in conferences and meetings with the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to discuss bank capital structure, CECL, Dodd-Frank and Basel III related issues.
Mr. Killian holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a John Motley Morehead Merit Scholar, and a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.