The Felician College Division of Business and Management Sciences is hosting the fourth installment of its Leadership and Innovation Lecture Series. The upcoming lecture will feature Michael Silva, senior vice president in the Financial Institutions Supervision Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His talk is titled “Entrepreneurial Thinking and Leadership.”

The event will take place on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 6:00 pm in the upper lecture hall of Sammartino Hall on Felician's Rutherford Campus, 223 Montross Avenue.

Silva joined the bank in August 1992 as a law clerk in the Legal Group. He held positions with increasing responsibilities in the legal group and in September 1995 was appointed an officer of the bank with the title of Counsel. In December 1998, Silva was promoted to assistant vice president and became the lead counsel for the Bank’s international account relationships and currency distribution. He was promoted to vice president in December 1999 with those same responsibilities. In June 2006, Silva was promoted to senior vice president and moved from the Legal Group to the Executive Group, where he served as chief of staff for president Geithner and subsequently president Dudley.

Silva’s tenure as Chief of Staff included all of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis. Silva concluded his assignment as chief of staff in September 2010 and moved to the Financial Institutions Supervision Group, where he currently serves as the Senior Supervisory Officer for The Goldman Sachs Group.

As a collateral duty, he served as assistant corporate secretary of the bank from December 1995 to December 1999. Silva holds a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. In 2004, Silva received the Department of Defense Joint Civilian Service Medal and the Secretary of the Treasury’s Honor Award, both for his service in Iraq as a coalition advisor to the Central Bank of Iraq.

Mr. Silva is also the author of “A Central Banker in Iraq”, Journal of International Business & Law, Spring 2004. Prior to attending law school and joining the bank, Silva served as an officer in the United States Navy from May 1983 to September 1989. During that period, he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 142 as an F-14A Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer and also to the On-Site Inspection Agency, a joint military and civilian agency in Washington DC responsible for conducting the first ever arms control verification inspections in the former Soviet Union. He is also a 1986 graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (a.k.a “Topgun”).

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please call Ms. Patricia McTaggart at 201-559-3569 or mctaggartp@felician.edu.

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