Depository Institutions

Kim Weeks is a Managing Director at StoneCastle Cash Management, LLC. Kim joined SCCM in 2012 and manages bank-related strategies and initiatives. With more than 29 years of experience in the banking industry, Kim’s expertise includes cash management, retail and wholesale funding approaches. She helped revolutionize the wholesale CD market by introducing non-brokered listing service deposits to community banks. Listing service CDs now account for over $40 billion dollars in deposits to community banks. Kim also piloted a startup company that became a nationally recognized corporation in two years. Her executive background includes President of two premier bank funding businesses: IDC Deposits and QwickRate.

Kim’s career was molded and enhanced with tenures at Wachovia Bank and Bank of America. In addition to her management responsibilities at SCCM, Kim personally consults with numerous community banks across the U.S.

A highly regarded speaker, Kim has presented at numerous national and state banking conferences. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University and is an honors graduate of Kennesaw State University, where she received her Master’s of Business Administration in May 2000.

As a member of the Bank Sales team of StoneCastle Cash Management, LLC. Bill Abernathy is responsible for sales to community banks in his territory. He brings more than 40 years sales experience to SCCM, beginning in the municipal bond industry in 1973.

Prior to joining SCCM, Bill worked in bank consulting. During this period, he was employed by QwickRate and managed the iFeds online fed funds platform for ICAP, an international brokerage firm.

Bill began his sales career in the bond business in Texas in 1973, continuing in Colorado through 1999. He was a money market broker with Lynn Associates in San Francisco in 1976. He started the sales and trading desk at Newman & Associates in 1979 where he was responsible for placement of bond issues and was in charge of investment of bond proceeds for arbitrage purposes. During his tenure, Newman became a significant underwriter of multi-family housing bonds in the nation.

Bill graduated from Texas Tech with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Sales Territories: CA North, CO, IA, KY,ME, ND, NH, NM, TX, WA, WY

As Vice President and member of the Bank Sales team at StoneCastle Cash Management, Danielle Neiport is responsible for introducing community banks across the country to the StoneCastle Network. With more than a decade of experience in financial services, she excels in relationship management and business development.

Prior to joining StoneCastle, Danielle was a Business Development Coordinator at a private client financial firm focused on marketing strategies, internal business enhancements, and overall AUM growth.

Danielle began her career at Bank of New York Mellon where she held several positions of increasing responsibility and knowledge. Additionally, she spent several years as a Regional Sales Representative at Tristate Capital Bank. In her role, she was responsible for creating and expanding relationships while driving growth in the company’s portfolio of lending solutions.

Danielle graduated from West Virginia University withBachelor of Business Administration.

Sales Territories: AZ, DC, DE, ID, IL, LA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NV, OH, OR, PA, VT, WA

As a Senior Associate and member of the StoneCastle Cash Management Bank Sales Team, Paul is responsible for working with community banks in his territory. Since joining SCCM, Paul has been instrumental in helping to grow our bank deposit network.

Paul began his career in finance at Barclays, working as a trading assistant on the Credit Flow Trading Desk. Additionally, he spent several years as a Credit Analyst at HSBC. Paul has also worked in the New York City Real Estate market at one of the largest brokerages. Prior to Stonecastle, he was a sales data analyst at a private equity owned manufacturing company.

Paul graduated from the University of Scranton with a bachelor’s degree in Finance.

As the Senior Vice President of the Bank Relationship Management team for StoneCastleCash Management, LLC, Ari Schlusselberg is directly responsible for the management of the growth and development of SCCM’s bank network. He has more than five years of relationship management experience and uses all of those skills to bring value to our bank network.

Since joining SCCM, Ari has been instrumental in growing the bank network, both by bringing in new banks and by increasing the relationship with existing ones.

Prior to SCCM, Ari was a Client Services and Business Development Manager at Ping Mobile, a leading mobile marketing firm headquartered in New Jersey. While at Ping, he focused on developing and executing mobile marketing campaigns for large companies in many sectors, including finance, hospitality, telecommunication and media.

Ari graduated with a BA in Economics from Yeshiva University.

Kendra Dwyer is a Vice President and Bank Relationship Manager at StoneCastle Cash Management, LLC. Kendra began her career at Raymond James & Associates, in their Naples, Florida office. She moved to New York City in 2007 and started working on the trading floor on the US Equities desk. After the collapse of the market, Kendra worked as a Relationship Manager at Guidepoint, an Expert Network firm headquartered in NYC. While there, she worked for seven years doing business development with buy-side clientele focusing on Hedge Funds and Private Equity shops. There, she initiated contact, on-boarded new clients, expanded and cultivated existing relationships, penetrated new groups and users, and worked on renewals and upsells.

Kendra graduated from the University of South Florida with a BS in Finance.

As a Relationship Management Associate and member of the StoneCastle Cash Management Bank Team, Opephany is responsible for managing relationships with community banks. Since joining SCCM, Opephany has been instrumental in helping to grow our bank deposit network and cultivating established relationships.

Opephany began her career in finance at Bank of America working as a relationship management associate at a local branch. There, she worked to foster and develop client relationships, on-boarded new clients, expanded and cultivated existing relationships.

Opephany graduated from New Jersey City University with a degree in Accounting with a concentration in Business Administration. Opephany is currently completing her MBA.

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