”All About Banking” with Audrey Wendel

For the last 27 years, our mentor this month has spent her career specializing in the lending needs of dentists having designed and implemented thousands of plans to fit dentists varying banking needs from real estate and construction loans to equipment, lines of credit and refinancing student loans, she has seen and tackled just about every dental financing challenge.  Ms. Wendel joined T Bank in 2006 as Market President in Dental, Professional, and Executive lending with the primary responsibility of developing the Bank’s highly successful national dental lending platform from the ground up. In addition to serving the lending needs of dental professionals, her role includes working with their trusted advisors crafting financing solutions to meet their clients’ financial goals. Ms. Wendel graduated with a B.A. from UC Berkeley, and in 1994 she joined the Matsco Companies, a financing company that was subsequently purchased by Wells Fargo. She started out as an inside sales representative in both the commercial, industrial, and dental industries, transitioning after two years to a full-time role in outside sales for the West Coast dental lending division. From there, she was promoted to Business Development Officer for Wells Fargo’s National Dental Programs division. We welcome her years of experience and wisdom as she shares “What every dentist needs to know NOW about practice debt:  How much, how long, and whether or not to do it.”