Co-Chairman of the Board
Mark Olson’s distinguished career in financial services has spanned over 40 years, holding top-level executive positions in the public and private sectors. Mark joined Treliant Risk Advisors after three years as Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, five years as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee, and after serving as staff director of the Securities Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban affairs. Mark is also a past President of the American Bankers Association. Mark spent more than a decade as a partner with Ernst & Young LLP (formerly Arthur Young & Company), where he became national director of the financial services Regulatory Consulting Practice.
The deep regulatory, public policy, and consulting experience Mark brings to Treliant Risk Advisors clients is complemented by his Minnesota banker family heritage. Mark began his career at First Bank System (now U.S. Bancorp), became Legislative Director in the office of Congressman Bill Frenzel (R-MN), and was ultimately named President and CEO of Security State Bank, a community institution founded by his father in 1957.
Mark holds a BA in economics from Saint Olaf College in Minnesota and was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 2003.