Advisory Board
Special Advisor
Richard Dixon
Mr. Dixon recently retired after 36+ years of supervisory and regulatory experience with the OCC. For over 15 years, Mr. Dixon was a member of the senior management group within Midsize and Community Bank Supervision. Most recently, Mr. Dixon served as Associate Deputy Comptroller, leading twelve Assistant Deputy Comptrollers who supervised community banks and federal savings associations from offices located in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Prior to that as Assistant Deputy Comptroller in Southern California for 13+ years, he managed staff assigned to offices in Glendale, Santa Ana, and Carlsbad and supervised banks in Southern California, Arizona, and Hawaii ranging in size from $50 million to over $15 billion. As a manager, Mr. Dixon received the Comptroller’s Managerial Excellence Award in 2021. Throughout his career, he has helped countless banks in managing enforcement actions, new charter applications, and mergers and acquisitions. He began his career with the OCC in 1989 and earned his National Bank Examiner commission in 1995. Before becoming a manager, Mr. Dixon served as a community bank examiner, commercial credit Functional EIC and EIC of a $22 billion midsize bank, and commercial credit examiner on a resident team of a $60 billion large bank. His areas of expertise include general safety and soundness, corporate governance, enterprise and third-party risk management, credit risk management, regulatory remediation, problem bank management, and corporate applications. Mr. Dixon graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a degree in finance.