Tom McDermott
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
About Inver
Bankers helping bankers make consequential decisions.
Inver Consulting Group was built by bankers, not career consultants. We bring decades of operating experience inside financial institutions to strategy, distribution, and customer-centered growth.
Fáilte go Inbhear.
Welcome to Inver.
Our name comes from a village of 117 people on the wild coast of County Mayo, Ireland. Small place, big grit. That's how we work.
The story behind our name
Inver — Inbhear, County Mayo, Ireland.
Inver is a small village of just 117 people in the rural northwest of the Republic of Ireland. It is where Tom's mother, Bridget Monaghan, left home at the age of 17.
There is a joke in Inver that there are more sheep than people, and that might be true! Residents either raise flocks of sheep or take their small boats into the North Atlantic to fish for sea trout, Atlantic salmon, and mackerel.
Her grit and determination were passed down to her son Tom, one of the co-founders of Inver Consulting Group. We carry her village's name as a reminder of where that drive comes from.
The yellow house pictured is the Monaghan family home. It still stands in Inver today and remains in the family.
Meet our founders
Leadership that has sat on your side of the table.
Tom McDermott is co-founder and Managing Partner of Inver Consulting Group. He has over 25 years of financial-services experience in senior-level roles with both large and small banks, beginning his career in New Jersey working on Small & Mid-Market credit analysis and Activity Based Costing before joining First Union in Charlotte, NC to develop multi-dimensional profitability systems.
In senior roles at Washington Mutual Bank, Tom led Corporate Planning and Network Strategy and served as New Jersey & Georgia Market Executive. After the Chase acquisition of WaMu, he returned to the southeast to join SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, where he held several senior-level roles—including being one of the first to hold the Omni Channel role in banking.
His work at SunTrust included launching mobile deposit, increasing digital sales, rolling out image-enabled ATMs, Video Teller “Teller Connect,” and the technology branch featuring Wi-Fi, a tablet bar, and video teller machines. He also ran the Retail Sales function, developing a custom needs-based sales process that increased sales double-digit within the first six months.
An accomplished industry speaker, Tom has presented on omni channel strategy in the US, Italy, Germany, Scotland, and England, and is actively involved with BAI, assisting with their annual Retail Delivery conference and past content leader for Omni Channel.
Lisa Klingberg
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Lisa Klingberg is co-founder and Managing Partner of Inver Consulting Group. She has more than 15 years of financial-services experience across finance, portfolio management, mortgage, capital markets, and treasury.
Lisa began her career in Minneapolis at Lutheran Brotherhood Securities, then moved to NRG Energy, starting on the trading floor analyzing oil, natural gas, and electricity before moving into project finance, corporate finance, and treasury—refining her skills in financial modeling, cash-flow forecasting, and treasury hedging.
In Capital Markets at GMAC Mortgage she built product profitability and economic models. At U.S. Bancorp she worked on organic growth opportunities and digital capabilities, helping roll out the bank's first mobile deposit program.
She then joined SunTrust Bank in Atlanta as a portfolio manager, moving forward revenue-generating projects across Retail, Wealth, Digital, Marketing, and key Consumer Bank initiatives.
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