Alex Obrien

About Alex Obrien

Alex O’Brien is owner and president of BOC Bank, a fintech bank based out of Amarillo…

Experience

1. President & CEO

   Boc Bank

   Jan 2000 — Present

   Alex O’Brien joined BOC Bank, formerly Bank of Commerce, as a board member and owner in The bank was originally bought by the W. H. O’Brien family to create a financial technology bank that could offer efficiencies through programming a sophisticated core software with the ability to process real time transactions. W. H. O’Brien, Alex’s father, felt that businesses and agriculture companies suffered with banks holding their money for too long and that there was little ability to move money quickly. W. H. O’Brien had a vision to create faster, more transparent payment systems to allow financial transactions of all kinds to happen in real time. Alex O’Brien stepped into the role of bank president in 2008 and continues to promote a vision of transparent low-cost systems enabled through technology to offer BOC Bank clients a better and more cost-effective solution. BOC Bank is a part of the new wave of fintech banks that are using in-house technology to create friction-free business. BOC Bank offers many services, including deposit accounts without monthly charges, proprietary Pay-a-Friend money transfer service, and mobile check deposit. On the commercial side, there’s a loan application center with a proprietary document upload and eSign software. BOC Bank also offers home mortgages, commercial loans and agricultural loans and continues to develop new technologies to help its customers.

Education

• Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

  School of Banking Program

  2008 — 2008

• UCLA Anderson School of Management

  Management Development for Entrepreneurs

  2003 — 2003

• Stanford University

  BS, American Studies

  1988 — 1992