Thomas Pohlman, CEO of Ames National Corporation, Ames, Iowa, will retire at the end of this month. Pohlman will continue to serve as the chairman of the board of Ames National and its subsidiary bank, the First National Bank of Ames. His retirement marks the culmination of a 40-year career in banking. [Continue]
Kathy Thorson was named community banking president of Sioux Falls-based MetaBank. She will oversee the Brookings, S.D., central Iowa and northwest Iowa markets as well as her current role as market president of the Sioux Falls market. [Continue]
Commerce Bank of Kansas City, Mo., is rearranging its upper management in the wake of its vice chairman’s retirement. Jonathan M. Kemper will transition from his role on July 31. [Continue]
Seattle’s First Sound Bank named Christopher Green a vice president, private banker and cash management officer and Joshua Menard an assistant vice president and relationship manager. [Continue]
Old National Bank, Evansville, Ind.; Community First Bank of Indiana, Kokomo; and Heartland Financial USA, Inc., Dubuque, Iowa, have all made recent additions to their boards of directors. [Continue]
I am originally from North Carolina. I was born in North Carolina and was actually friends with Vince growing up. We met when I was 13 and he was 16. We later married right after I graduated from high school and then went off to college. We just celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary. It’s a wonderful thing to have been together this many years, to be married to your best friend, to have two great kids, six grandchildren – it’s truly a blessing. [Continue]
The search is on for the next president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The position is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country. [Continue]
A long-time Small Business Administration employee, Melvin Boser, passed away May 18. He was 68. Boser, known as Mel, retired from the SBA on Dec. 31, 2017. [Continue]
Bruce Lee, president of Heartland Financial USA, Inc., will add CEO to his title on June 1. Lee has been president of Heartland Financial since 2015. The $10.1 billion Heartland operates 10 bank charters serving 89 communities from 117 banking locations. [Continue]
Farmers Trust and Savings Bank, Spencer, Iowa, announced the retirement of Bruce Lamport and the election of Kenneth Easter and Michael Bryan to the board of directors. [Continue]