Brendon Falconer is a senior financial executive with more than twenty years of experience in banking, analytics, treasury, and corporate finance. His leadership is grounded in a disciplined, data-driven approach that emphasizes transparency and accountability. Throughout his career, he has focused on aligning financial management with strategic direction, ensuring that decisions are supported by clear analysis and measurable outcomes.
His professional scope includes financial reporting, asset and liability management, analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and enterprise-level performance strategy. Across these areas, he has maintained a consistent objective: to convert detailed financial data into insights that guide operations and strengthen institutional performance. He believes that collaboration across departments is essential to sustainable financial success.
Growing up in York, Pennsylvania, he developed habits of focus and perseverance through athletics and academics. As a competitive track and field athlete, he learned to manage time, maintain discipline, and pursue steady improvement. These early lessons later influenced his approach to financial leadership.
He earned an accounting degree from Kent State University, building a strong technical foundation in financial principles and reporting standards. He then completed an MBA at Indiana State University, where he expanded his knowledge of management, strategy, and organizational leadership. This combination of accounting expertise and business education prepared him for complex roles within the banking sector.
Brendon Falconer has developed broad technical expertise throughout his career. His experience includes financial accounting, asset and liability management, management reporting, and data analytics. He has specialized in econometric modeling, ACL development, and stress testing frameworks, helping institutions evaluate risk under varying economic conditions.
His background also includes mergers and acquisitions, credit analysis, financial modeling, and oversight of investment portfolios. He has contributed to the design of hedging and derivatives strategies and has supported investor relations and performance measurement initiatives. His focus remains on creating systems that provide reliable insight while supporting responsible growth.
In February 2014, Brendon became senior vice president at Old National Bank, serving as director of management reporting and data analytics. In this role, he was responsible for enterprise financial, operational, and credit reporting. He also led the development and maintenance of ACL and stress-testing models. During this time, he helped introduce the organization’s first formal data science role, broadening analytical capabilities across lending, pricing, staffing, marketing performance, and capital deployment. He also played a key role in building the bank’s first business intelligence platform, including a comprehensive customer-view reporting environment.
In September 2016, he advanced to treasurer. His responsibilities expanded to include oversight of liquidity, capital planning, market risk sensitivity, the investment portfolio, and treasury operations. He centralized consumer loan and deposit pricing and implemented a revised deposit pricing framework that achieved an 18 percent deposit beta while maintaining deposit strength. He also expanded market risk analysis to consider multiple rate path scenarios and introduced hedging strategies that protected interest income from 2019 to 2020.
Since May 2019, Brendon has served as Old National Bank's senior executive vice president and chief financial officer. His oversight includes financial accounting, reporting, tax, treasury, data analytics, management reporting, facilities, procurement, and leadership of finance teams. During his tenure, the bank grew to more than $46 billion in combined assets and completed the acquisition of a $20 billion Chicago bank.
Brendon Falconer has also contributed to industry dialogue through speaking engagements at the “Acquired or Be Acquired” banking conference. In 2022, he discussed selecting a core banking system following mergers. In 2023, he addressed enhanced credit analytics and the expanding role of data-driven credit evaluation in performance and risk control.
Outside of finance, he maintains a connection to athletics. He placed third in the decathlon at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and competed in the 2000 Olympic Trials. He also supports nonprofit and educational organizations and has served on community boards in financial advisory roles. His career reflects steady leadership, measurable results, and continued commitment to responsible financial management.
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