Mitchell D. Weiss formed the financial consulting firm of M. D. Weiss LLC in October 2008 to provide its services to banking industry, private equity and hedge fund executives regarding credit risk management, regulatory compliance relationship management and strategic direction.

Immediately prior to forming M. D. Weiss, Mitch was Chairman and CEO of Center Capital Corporation, a specialty finance company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Webster Bank, which is a subsidiary of Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS). He joined Center Capital in August 1992, at a time when the company and its then-bank parent were experiencing financial distress. He helped to restore the company to profitability and was named its CEO in 1995. Soon after, Mitch implemented a company-wide, process-redesign effort during which he reconstituted the management team, flattened and streamlined the corporate structure, and conceived and implemented a revised approach to market. He and his hand-picked team acquired the company in 1996 through a leveraged buyout that Mitch structured and negotiated, and for which he raised both equity and debt capital. In 2001, he sold the firm to Webster Bank. Under his leadership, Center Capital’s financial, operational and credit performance metrics ranked among the best in its industry while the company enjoyed an especially low employee turnover rate.