Michele Alt focuses on helping fintechs develop their U.S. bank licensing strategies and led the Klaros team that assisted SmartBiz in securing a charter.

At Promontory Financial Group Michele led major bank licensing efforts and assisted banking organizations on Dodd-Frank and Volcker Rule interpretive and implementation matters. Before that, she spent 22 years in the Law Department of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, leading interagency rulemakings arising out of the Dodd-Frank legislation and serving as the agency's legal point person on federal preemption issues. Michele also served as OCC's district counsel in Chicago, leading a team of financial lawyers handling licensing and enforcement matters. She began her career as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

She received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from Wayne State University, where she was an editor of the law review.