Castle Consulting is a boutique firm that transforms business practices and develops competitive advantages

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Overview

About Castle Consulting

We are a trusted financial consulting firm with decades of professional experience

A boutique consulting firm specializing in transforming business practices to develop a competitive advantage in the “new world economy”, Castle Consulting provides a variety of services from strategic planning to new process design and implementation. Other areas of proven expertise include: managing operating processes, business performance metrics, defining business policies, developing documentation for analytic models, business processes and procedures and bridging cross-functional efforts (many of those are both business and IT or between business units).

We hand pick each team for all of our clients

At Castle Consulting, each project team is carefully hand selected from a deep network of industry professionals. Often, consulting companies take a one size fits all approach which often leads the project to conform to the team rather than having the right team for the project,

  • Designing and delivering strategic and innovative solutions
  • Solving clients’ pressing business problems
  • Engagement planning and client management
  • Identifying requirements and hiring specialty resources
  • Leading expert teams of specialists to operationalize and achieve intended outcomes
  • Managing Operations teams and processes
  • Procuring clients

We work with clients ranging from Fortune 100's to small tech startups.

With Castle Consulting, you have access to a scalable team of industry experts that can operate partnering with internal teams to managing multiple departments across your entire business. We have a proven track record of working with senior leadership, siloed departments, and learning how to tirelessly improve business processes.

Our Services

The many ways we can partner together

Business processes

Process Improvement

Identifying requirements

Mapping

Analyzing

Improving

Measuring

Project Implementation

Organizing

Managing

Planning

Executing

IT Projects

Business Projects

Financial Analysis

Accounting

Cost Allocations

Budgets

Resource Planning

Governance Controls

Funding Decisions

Strategic Planning

Internal Compliance

Regulatory Compliance

Establishing & Measuring Controls

Balanced Scorecard Implementation

Vision & Mission Development

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

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About the CEO

Michael Castle

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Professional
History

Proven executive, thought leader and change agent with in-depth experience, a strong intuitive sense, and a reputation for delivering superior results. Brings exceptional skills in providing business and technology leadership and in building and motivating high performance teams that deliver optimal performance. Known as an internal “turn-around expert” who brings order out of chaos, presents ideas clearly and builds consensus to achieve organizational objectives. Primary focus on the Financial Services & Information Technology Industries (working with foreign & domestic banks, brokerages, capital management firms, insurance companies, government agencies, government sponsored enterprises, hedge funds and startups). Has been instrumental in preparing two startup companies to be sold to large firms and has worked to integrate acquired/merged entities. Possesses functional expertise in:

  • Business process improvement (mapping, analyzing and improving)
  • Projects (organize, manage, plan and execute) – IT, business or both
  • Controls – (governance, operational, business and systems processes)
  • Financial Analysis – (accounting, cost allocations, budgets)
  • Data Management (architecture, integration, stewardship)
  • Resource Planning
  • Measures (establishment and monitoring)
  • Compliance (internal and regulatory)
  • Strategic Planning
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Educational
History

  • 1986 - BS Finance, California State University, Long Beach (minor in Economics)

  • 2008 - Master Certificate Six Sigma, Villanova University

  • 2008 - Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB)

  • 2006 - Michael Hammer Conference: Redesigning the Practice of Management - Reengineering Governing Processes for World-Class Results

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Recommendations

From previous clients

Tony Harney


GMAC ResCap

Chief Risk Officer

"GMAC Mortgage recently contracted with Castle Consulting to evaluate and recommend process improvements on our Capital Markets trading desk. Mike's ability to access contractors and assess the skill set necessary to tackle this project was impressive. Mike is an extremely knowledgeable mortgage capital markets executive. Within a few short days our complex project was staffed and interviews with our key associates were underway. Throughout the project, Mike and his team worked tirelessly and engaged extremely busy personnel to build the workflows necessary to recommend improvements to our processes. Throughout the engagement, Mike communicated the progress of his findings to senior management. His team was always professional and under his leadership never lost sight of the potential positive impact to our bottom line. The project concluded successfully and we continue to implement his recommendations. We wouldn't hesitate to call Castle Consulting in the future should the need arise."

Elliott Grumer


GMAC Mortgage

SVP Servicing Acquisitions

"I had the pleasure of working with Mike Castle when he was hired as a consultant to lead process improvements throughout our company. He spent a majority of his time in my area of responsibility and did a tremendous job assessing our internal process and needs, conducting a gap analysis, redesigning our process to meet risk management and compliance requirements while increasing our efficiency and accuracy. He is truly one of the best project managers I’ve ever worked with and would both highly recommend him and hire him again if the opportunity presented itself."

Jack Stapleton


EverBank Infinity Banking

Director

"I have known and have worked with Mike for many years. Mike's ability to drive project success and his strategic leadership is second to none. He is an experienced, talented thought leader who rolls up his sleeves and makes it happen. Mike is a total professional who "gets it" and is an ideal partner!"

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