John V. Konyk is Executive Director of Government Affairs at Washington, D.C.-based Weiner Brodsky Kider PC, one of the nation's leading law firms practicing in the financial services area. He has over four decades of financial services experience, having held a wide array of front-line and back-office positions in consumer banking and lending disciplines with a concentration in all aspects of mortgage finance. Prior to joining Weiner Brodsky Kider, he spent 14 years at National City Bank, now merged into PNC.