Advisors
Preston Miller
Preston Miller
is a senior finance and operations executive with over 19 years of experience in consumer finance. He has developed an impressive record of consistently delivering shareholder value through strategic leadership, business growth, sound operational management, financial knowledge and his ability to create winning partnerships.
As the Executive Vice President/COO of Americredit Corporation, Preston used his strategic and visionary skills to expand business opportunities, broadening product lines and developing new finance channels. He successfully helped to restructure the organization while increasing efficiency and boosting originations, led two strategic acquisitions, overhauled the pricing strategy to be more flexible and market specific and launched a profitable new product line. His multi-pronged growth strategy is credited with increasing core loan originations from $5 billion to $7.5 billion.
Preston joined Americredit during its start up stage as a Controller and moved quickly through the professional ranks to become CFO and Treasurer. He was known as a tough negotiator and for having a keen mind for complex financial structures. As a key executive officer he helped to build a $16 billion portfolio and to achieve unprecedented profits in the consumer finance market while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
In his financial roles he led the company through over 15 years of growth and change including mergers & acquisitions, turnarounds, joint ventures, business unit and department start-ups, restructures and an IPO. He was able to create dynamic financial platforms which improved structured transactions while reducing risk and increasing returns on shareholder equity.
Prior to his roles at Americredit he worked with a major accounting firm as an auditor and audit supervisor where he had the opportunity to work with a variety of industries including oil & gas, manufacturing, non-profit and financial services.
Preston received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas Christian University of Fort Worth, Texas. He has an active CPA certification in Texas. Board memberships include United Pan Am Financial Corp Board, AICPA, TCU, The Neely School of Business International Board of Visitors and ASFA Vehicle Finance Board where he served as Chairman in 2008.
Anita Sands
Dr. Anita M. Sands is an Irish businesswoman, academic and speaker, resident in Canada. Most recently Dr. Sands was Managing Director and Head of Transformation Management at Citigroup. Prior to Citigroup, Dr. Sands was appointed as the youngest ever senior vice-president at the Royal Bank of Canada in 2007. At Royal Bank of Canada, Dr Sands led Innovation and Process Design.
Dr Sands is a Fulbright and O’Reilly Scholar, a member of the Board of the Ireland Fund of Canada, has been an advisor to the Toronto Board of Trade, and served with a number of other bodies.
Dr. Sands studied physics and applied maths at Queen’s University Belfast and later earning a Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics. Dr. Sands also earned a Masters in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and served as Executive Director of the university’s Software Industry Center.
Dr. Sands is a member of the board at the Ireland Fund of Canada and Women in Capital Markets. She has served as a director of the Ireland Park Foundation, which is dedicated to building a Canadian memorial to Irish immigrants who fled the Great Famine. She has been a board member of Ireland-Canada Chamber of Commerce of Toronto and sat on a Toronto Board of Trade advisory committee on IT.
