Kim J. Pimley

Kim Pimley is the co-founder and Chairman of Pimley & Pimley Inc., and is President of P&P Training Resources, Inc.

Pimley’s strategic design, delivery, and logistical management enables Pimley & Pimley to provide a seamless, high quality, customized credit risk and corporate finance curriculum to over 50 investment and commercial banking clients in markets ranging from the Americas to Australia, and from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to Asia.

In addition to Pimley’s management of the Company, she also delivers credit approval writing programs to complement the Company’s corporate finance and credit curriculum.

Pimley began her career at Continental Bank (now Bank of America), assessing senior management training and succession planning needs. She assumed responsibility for the design and delivery for a wide range of technical training, as well as for developing professional development tracking and logistics systems. She was then responsible for the bank’s U.S. associate and analyst recruiting program.

As a member of several local and national non-profit boards, with responsibilities for finance, fundraising and strategic planning, Pimley has developed a unique perspective on both public and private capital raising in this sector.

Pimley received a BA and MA from Emory University, and completed PhD coursework at the University of Chicago.

Michael St. J. Pimley

Michael Pimley is the co-founder and president of Pimley & Pimley Inc.

Since 1991, Pimley & Pimley has developed and delivered training for over 50 international commercial and investment banks, U.S. money center banks, U.S. super-regional and regional banks, and a wide variety of trade associations and financial institutions in over 40 countries.

Pimley’s career experience and ongoing dealings with financial institutions around the world informs the disciplines of risk analysis, business development, corporate finance, and deal structuring which form the bedrock of Pimley & Pimley’s credit risk and corporate finance curriculum.

Prior to founding the Firm, Pimley worked at Continental Bank (now Bank of America) as a corporate banker in London specializing in debt restructurings and workouts; as head of the bank’s operations in Nigeria; and as head of the bank’s Professional Development group in Chicago. Pimley was also a founding member of the bank’s corporate finance initiative in Chicago and New York, where he was heavily involved in a wide variety of acquisition, buyout, and restructuring transactions.

During his U.S. banking career, Pimley was also chairman of RMA’s Professional Development Council and member of the board of this risk management trade association. He has also contributed articles periodically to The RMA Journal.

Pimley began his career at Norton Rose, a leading London law firm, where he worked as an attorney specializing in corporate finance.

Pimley received a BA and an LLM from Cambridge.

Peter M. Savill

Peter Savill has over 35 years of experience as a banker and a trainer in the areas of treasury, capital markets and derivative products, and is President of Savill Consulting.

In this role, Savill has designed and delivered a broad curriculum of both entry level and advanced programs on capital markets and derivatives subjects to Pimley & Pimley’s investment and commercial banking clients throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, India, Latin America and Australia.

Prior to forming his own company, Savill spent 19 years in the global markets business. He was the Head of European Sales and Marketing for Citibank's London-based futures and broking unit. Before assuming this position, he worked in various derivatives and capital market functions, and had responsibility for Citibank's financial markets training in London and New York.

Savill began his international banking career in Australia with Bank of America, where he spent three years in FX sales and trading.

Savill has a BS from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland and is a CFA charterholder.

Erich Wasser

Erich Wasser has nearly 40 years of experience as a banker and a trainer, and is President of Wasser and Associates AG. Wasser has taught in investment and commercial banks in Europe and Asia, and delivers programs in both English and German.

For over 20 years, Wasser has taught Pimley & Pimley’s international and domestic banking curriculum in Europe in general, and in Germany and Switzerland in particular, where he has delivered the full range of Pimley & Pimley’s corporate finance and credit curriculum.

Prior to forming his own company, Wasser had enjoyed a distinguished 22-year career at Swiss Bank Corporation / UBS.

Beginning with a series of apprenticeship assignments at the Bank, Wasser became head of Financial Institutions for Swiss Bank Corporation in New York. Upon returning to Switzerland, Wasser became head of the Credit Department for Northern and Central Switzerland, where he was responsible for the region’s complicated corporate finance and credit intensive transactions.

Following the merger between Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland, Wasser assumed the role of Chief Credit Officer for the entire Retail Division on the combined banks.