Coppelia Padgett is senior analyst at NeighborBench. She began her career as a Compliance Examiner for the FDIC working primarily out of Los Angeles. She left the FDIC to found Triac in 1992. This consulting firm grew to serve the compliance needs of hundreds of financial institutions in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and around the United States. In 2011, Ms. Padgett joined NeighborBench as a researcher, senior analyst and writer. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tulsa with a degree in Economics.