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Jim Elliott has 30 years of experience in the financial institutions sector and is a principal of WBC Financial Group, which provides consulting services to banks, thrifts, other financial services companies and companies entering a financial services line of business. Before joining WBC, he was successively General Counsel, Executive Vice President for European operations, and member of the Board of Directors of Providian Corporation. As a member of the Board he chaired the Marketing Committee and served as a member of the Audit Committee.
As Executive Vice President, he launched Providian’s U.K. credit card business and built it to over $500 million in assets. In the U.S. with Providian and its predecessor, First Deposit, he served as General Counsel, first of the Bank and then of the combined holding company.
Prior to joining Providian, Mr. Elliott was in private practice of law in Washington, D.C. for eight years. In his legal practice, Mr. Elliott represented financial institutions of all sizes before the regulatory agencies and in Federal Court.
From 1974 to 1981 Mr. Elliott served with the Comptroller of the Currency first as Senior Trial Attorney and then as Director of the agency's Bank Organization and Structure Division.
Mr. Elliott is a graduate of Duke University (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (JD).

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