Deb Purvin is not your typical banker – she’s an executive, an entrepreneur, and an adventurer. Using all the lessons learned as a successful business owner, she helps her banking clients grow profitably.
As an executive, she has worked in the commercial and corporate banking industry for more than 20 years — promoted from analyst to senior management. At Texas Capital Bank, she works with owner-managed businesses with revenues from $5 million to $250 million in numerous industries: healthcare, distribution, manufacturing, service and real estate. Her passion is to help her clients be successful.
As an entrepreneur, she built a $40 million real estate company in the mid-1980s with properties in Texas and California. Although the S&L crisis forced an early exit strategy, she paid off all her lenders and learned much about banking, cash flow and integrity.
In 2005, Deb Purvin took on another entrepreneurial role — developing a golf and ski resort in Vermont. Renewing the state environmental permit, rebuilding, managing and eventually selling the property, she understands the pressures, challenges and multiple roles that business owners face every day.
As an adventurer, she grew up on the ski slopes — skied on the US Ski Team and on the first Dartmouth Women’s Ski Team (which won the AIAW championship). In the 1990’s, the Purvin family traveled for 4 years through Central and South America on their 45 foot sailboat. Her biggest adventure now is managing a nonprofit organization focused on helping small businesses succeed.