Wendell Franklin

Wendell Franklin

Director of Corporate Security BOK Financial
Expertise
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Fraud Prevention

Wendell Franklin oversees BOK Financial's safety and security initiatives. His responsibilities include developing corporate security strategies, managing emergency response, monitoring security systems and providing training and ensuring compliance with legal regulations. He also collaborates with local and federal law enforcement agencies, and partners closely with the Emergency Operations Center and Fraud Prevention and Detection.

Franklin came to BOK Financial from a 27-year career in law enforcement, most recently serving as chief of the Tulsa Police Department. He has a degree in criminal justice and corrections from Langston University and graduated from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Senior Management Institute for Police, the FBI National Academy and the FBI National Executive Institute.

He serves on the board of the Tulsa Historical Society, and formerly was on the boards of the Boy Scouts of America and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Society.

Outside of the office, Wendell enjoys hiking, traveling, reading and exploring history.

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BOK Financial Corporation is a more than $50 billion regional financial services company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma with more than $105 billion in assets under management and administration. The company's stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the Global Select market listings (BOKF). BOK Financial Corporation's holdings include BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc., and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA's holdings include TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions across eight states as: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial (in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri); as well as having limited purpose offices Nebraska, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Tennessee. The entities held by BOK Financial Corporation are periodically referred to collectively as BOK Financial Corporation Group. Through its subsidiaries, BOK Financial Corporation provides commercial and consumer banking, brokerage trading, investment, trust services, mortgage origination and servicing, and an electronic funds transfer network. For more information, visit www.bokf.com.

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