NEW YORK, NY - Greystone, a private financial services and investment group, today announced the appointment of Darryl Speach as Chief Customer Officer. Speach is based in the firm’s New York headquarters and reports to Claudia Schiepers, Chief Marketing Officer.
In this newly created role, Speach will lead the Greystone customer experience effort across all business lines, including commercial mortgage lending, property management and healthcare operations. With a focus on creating unparalleled standards for interacting with both internal and external customers, Speach will redefine and enhance customer experience at Greystone.
“Greystone is very diverse, so making the pledge to establish and implement service standards across the entire organization is a key step to achieving exceptional and consistent customer experiences,” said Speach. “Greystone’s mission to formalize this effort will raise the bar for service quality and will be the means to differentiation among our peers – and beyond,” he added.
“At Greystone we are committed to elevating the quality of our customer interactions both internally and externally,” said Schiepers. “Darryl’s experience with some of the largest companies who are revered for their customer experience and service standards will no doubt help to differentiate Greystone as we continue to grow,” she added.
Prior to joining Greystone, Speach was Disney’s lead consultant assigned to the Disney Institute/McKinsey & Company co-branded joint venture, specializing in customer experience transformations. He led numerous client engagement teams around the globe including financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical, and automotive companies in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Speach also spent five years as the Corporate Vice President of Innovation/Customer Insights at New York Life Insurance where he championed numerous innovation, culture change, and employee engagement initiatives, as well as the New Horizons Innovation Leadership Ideation Program. He also served as a Vice President at BI Worldwide Consulting, where he led a team who specialized in enhancing sales & channel effectiveness, employee engagement, and customer loyalty programs for several Fortune 100 companies. While in this role, the organization was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Speach holds an MBA from Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics and has several industry certifications from the Center for Creative Leadership. He is also an accredited deBono Six Thinking Hats parallel thinking facilitator.
About Greystone
Greystone is a financial services and private investment group whose original core business is multifamily real estate lending. Over the years, Greystone has added business lines that are related to, and natural extensions of, its core business. Headquartered in New York with offices across the U.S., Greystone is active in three major business segments: Mortgage Finance, Healthcare and Real Estate. Greystone’s mission is to apply unparalleled creativity while modeling corporate compassion. Loans are offered through Greystone Servicing Corporation, Inc., Greystone Funding Corporation and/or other Greystone affiliates. For more information about Greystone’s multifamily and healthcare financing solutions please visit www.greyco.com