Stephen Lane

President & Founding Partner

Mr. Lane is a founding partner at SRA Consulting LLC (SRA), a Virginia-based bank consulting and advisory firm, with over 35 years of commercial banking, M&A, and equity and mezzanine investment experience.  Mr. Lane leads SRA’s M&A practice and over the last 15 years has led the credit due diligence on a number of bank-to-bank acquisitions, large bank recapitalizations and private equity bank investments.  Mr. Lane is also the Founder and President of LVIR Investors a mezzanine lending and equity investment fund and has led the direct equity/mezzanine investment units of the Dime Savings Bank of New York, a multi-billion dollar financial institution and First Fidelity Bancorp.  Mr. Lane headed First Fidelity’s (subsequently First Union’s) SBA Lending and Community Development Lending and Investment Groups.  In the 1990’s Mr. Lane headed the mergers and acquisitions due diligence team for First Fidelity Bancorporation, then the nation’s 25th largest banking institution.  Before joining First Fidelity, Mr. Lane was employed by the United States Comptroller of the Currency, where he worked for seventeen (17) years and became the Senior Regulator for Highly Leveraged Transactions.

Mr. Lane is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds both a BS and an MBA from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.  He is also a Graduate of the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.