Louis (Rusty) A. Thompson CPA, NBE

Rusty Thompson is the Acting Deputy Comptroller and Chief Accountant at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). As Acting Deputy Comptroller and Chief Accountant he serves as the OCC’s authoritative source for bank accounting and financial reporting providing accounting counsel to examiners, the banking industry, and the accounting profession. He also represents the OCC on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Reports Task Force and the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision’s Accounting Expert Group. Mr. Thompson joined the OCC in 1989 as a Professional Accounting Fellow, was named District Accountant for the Southern District in 1991, Assistant Chief Accountant in 2005, Deputy Chief Accountant in 2011, and Acting Deputy Comptroller and Chief Accountant effective October 5, 2014. Prior to joining the OCC, he spent eleven years in public accounting with two large national accounting firms. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1978 with a B.B.A. in accounting. Mr. Thompson is a cross-credentialed National Bank Examiner and a Certified Public Accountant.