Daniel R. Sheehan is President of Vista Bank, a commercial bank headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with approximately $2 billion in total assets. Based in Palm Beach County, Florida, Dan is responsible for supporting existing Vista Bank markets, overseeing the expansion into Florida, and executing on specific bank-wide initiatives. Previously, Mr. Sheehan was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Professional Bank, which he co-founded in 2008. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Professional Holding Corp (NASDAQ:PFHD) since its inception in 2014, he was responsible for the development and execution of its growth, capital and leadership plans. Under his leadership, Professional Bank grew its balance sheet approximately 14x before selling to Seacoast Bank in 2022.
From 2016 until 2019, Mr. Sheehan was a real estate investment banker with Walker & Dunlop, Inc. and previously held a similar position with Cohen Financial. Mr. Sheehan started his career at Bear Stearns, and subsequently has been directly involved in the investment and deployment of over $10 billion of institutional real estate capital throughout the U.S. while holding various positions at national real estate investment banks and financial intermediaries. Mr. Sheehan has significant experience in capital markets, structured finance, investment banking, community banking and shadow banking industries that provided him with valuable strategic insight on capital flows and associated risk as well as transactional and execution experience. Mr. Sheehan was an economics major and varsity football letterman at Duke University prior to receiving his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Florida and his M.B.A. from the University of Miami.