Jerry F. Pavlas

Mr. Jerry F.
Pavlas is Chief Operating Officer at Southwest Securities, Inc., Chairman at Presidential Financial Corp., and Chief Operating Officer at Southwest Securities.
Prior to joining SouthWest Securities, Mr. Pavlas served as President and Chief Operating Officer of First State Bank of Texas, part of the Pohlad Banking Group, from 1998 to 2002.
He was a senior banker with Hibernia Corporation from 1990 to 1998.
Mr. Pavlas served as Executive Vice President, Specialized Commercial Lending Manager, for Hibernia from 1995 to 1998 and Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, Louisiana and Texas, from 1992 to 1995.
He was Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for Banc Texas Group when that company was acquired by Hibernia in 1990.
He served as Manager of the Credit Risk Management Group from 1990 to 1992.
He left Huntington Bank in 1983 to join Banc Texas in Dallas as a Senior Vice President and Manager of the Special Asset Division.
In 1985, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Manager of Credit Administration for the Special Asset Division.
In 1987, he became Chairman of the Statewide Loan Committee, and in 1988, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for the bank.
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where he earned his B.A.
Degree in Accounting at Cleveland State University, Mr. Pavlas began his career at Huntington Bank in Cleveland as a Budget Financial Analyst in 1971.
He advanced through positions of increasing responsibility and became Vice President of the Special Asset Division in 1979.