Daniel Johnson Sr.

Daniel Johnson is a Managing Director at Treliant. He is an experienced regulatory compliance and data science professional with comprehensive financial services experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, internal audit, fair lending, statistical analysis, operations management, enterprise program administration, and compliance training. Daniel has notably innovated in the field of data research, specifically in the areas of predictive data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistical modeling, and data mining. He has a wide range of divisional compliance risk experience including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, mortgage securitization, traditional banking, commercial banking, mortgage originations, mortgage servicing, trust, and private banking.

Prior to joining Treliant, Daniel was Director of Fair Lending for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (commonly known as Freddie Mac), a publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise with over $3 trillion in assets under management. In this role he established and maintained compliance risk management related to fair lending, including oversight of third parties such as sellers and servicers. His role spanned across Freddie Mac’s three operating divisions—Single-Family, Multi-Family, and Investments & Capital Markets—among others.

Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Daniel was a Director of Regulatory Compliance, Fair Lending, and Internal Audit practices at a leading regulatory compliance consulting firm. In this role, Daniel directed client engagements for financial institutions ranging from $500 million to over $200 billion in assets and leveraged the use of statistical analysis and research for representative engagements with mortgage companies, mortgage servicers, banks, and credit unions. Additionally, he has held numerous senior management roles in regulatory compliance at leading mid-size and large banks in the United States. His regulatory affairs experience includes the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Bank (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Department of Justice (DOJ).

Daniel has a BBA with legal studies specialization from the University of Central Oklahoma, and an MBA with a data analytics specialization from Southeastern Oklahoma State University (graduation Spring 2024). Additionally, he is certified in Google Analytics and holds numerous statistics and data science credentials.

Daniel has been an active volunteer and participant in industry trade associations including serving as a committee member of the Community Bankers Association (CBA), a fair lending and UDAAP working group member of the American Bankers Association (ABA), and a compliance working group member of the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America (MBCA). He has presented at numerous trade organizations and industry thought-leadership conferences, including the annual CRA and Fair Lending Colloquium, California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA), Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL), National Association of Industrial Bankers (NAIB), Utah Association of Financial Services (NAFS), Texas Bankers Association (TBA), Southwest Association of Bank Counsel (SWABC), and Oklahoma Bankers Association (OBA). Additionally, Daniel is a published author with the ABA in the area of fair lending compliance risk management.