Biographies

Geoffrey A. Oliver is the founder of Hilltop Advisors, LLC (June 2005) and its Women Owned Small Business affiliate - Hilltop Government Solutions (April 2009).  Mr. Oliver is the Managing Partner of both firms with a total of 7 partners.  Hilltop Advisors is a consulting and accounting advisory firm exclusively dedicated to serving the financial services industry.  Hilltop Government Solutions is a consulting and accounting advisory firm exclusively focused on the governmental agencies that interact with and regulate the financial services business.  Hilltop Advisors and Government Solutions frequently partner with MBankAdvisors to provide comprehensive mortgage banking services.  The services include strategy/operations, regulatory compliance, financial management and transaction support activities.

Mr. Oliver has extensive experience and knowledge regarding:

• Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Regulatory Standards and Requirements
• Risk Management
• Mortgage and Consumer Loan Production and Servicing
• Capital Markets and Derivatives
• Financial Advisory - Transaction Management and Valuation
• Commercial Business Lending, Multifamily Lending, Commercial Real Estate Finance and Other Lending
• Government Agency

Mr. Oliver was BearingPoint’s National Lending & Leasing Team leader (Consumer and Commercial) and ran this national consulting practice, while concurrently leading the Freddie Mac account services team from 2001 to June 2005.  The team consisted of almost 450 consultants.  This practice provided services to an average of 150 financial services entities annually, including many of the top banks, mortgage companies and credit card issuers. 

Mr. Oliver began his career at KPMG LLP and had numerous leadership roles during his 25 year tenure.  He built and managed several large national teams including the Mortgage and Structured Finance practice, the Consumer Lending practice and the Homebuilder segment of the Real Estate practices for KPMG.  He was KPMG’s subject matter expert on the accounting and business issues within the mortgage banking and bank lending arena (consumer and commercial).  He has extensive audit and consulting experience with commercial lending, commercial real estate finance, multifamily lending, and other bank lending activities.

He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on topics including accounting/auditing issues, risk management, regulatory compliance, financial reporting, and profit improvement.  He is a featured writer in many of the industry’s trade periodicals.  His strategic view and “practical solutions” for many credit related issues have earned him a reputation as one of the leading industry professionals.  Many of the industry’s leading companies have utilized his financial, compliance, operational, technology and risk management skills to achieve their strategic objectives in the loan production, secondary markets, and loan servicing areas. 

Mr. Oliver received a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University with honors in Accounting and Finance.  He is a Certified Public Accountant, Commonwealth of Virginia.  He has a Certification in Financial Forensics (forensic accounting and fraud detection).  He is a Certified Mortgage Banker.  He is very active with the various MBA committees such as MBA’s Financial Management and Accounting Standards Committees.   Mr. Oliver is heavily involved in the Community as current President and past Treasurer of the Lightning Soccer Association.  He is on the Arlington Soccer Association Board of Directors.   He has been the CFO of the Fairfax Symphony and active sponsor of the Arlington Free Clinic.  He is on the Advisory Board of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.