Tim O’Shea

Biography

Tim O’Shea is a Senior Director for Klaros Group, an advisory and investment firm focused on the future of financial services. O’Shea focuses on fintechs, BaaS, and payments, drawing on experience in startup and community bank leadership and consulting. Most recently, O’Shea served as an executive in residence with QED Investors, where he provided fractional compliance leadership and strategic advice to portfolio companies, helping especially with new bank partnerships, product launches, and growth initiatives. He remains with QED as a senior advisor focused on regulation and policy. Previously, O’Shea led legal and enterprise risk for Reserve Trust, a B2B payments company with direct access to the U.S. payments system through a Federal Reserve master account. Earlier, he worked for nearly a decade with Promontory Financial Group, assisting fintechs, traditional institutions, and governmental and self-regulatory organizations with strategic, regulatory, and risk issues. O’Shea has also served as chief of staff of Carver Federal Savings Bank, a community development bank supervised by the OCC, where he led strategic and business planning. During law school, he worked for the majority staff of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, helping develop the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation.

O’Shea received his law and graduate degrees from Duke University and his undergraduate degree from New York University.