EDITOR’S NOTE: The American Bankers Association holds its National Conference for Community Bankers this month in Honolulu. Charles Schmalz, president of East Wisconsin Savings Bank, Kaukauna, is vice chair of the committee that planned the conference. Schmalz visited with BankBeat Publisher Tom Bengtson about his work on the ABA’s Community Bankers Council and the challenges facing his bank. [Continue]
First National Bank and Trust Company, Beloit, Wis., named David McCoy president and chief financial officer last week. McCoy has also been elected to the board of directors of Centre 1 Bancorp, Inc., Beloit, Wis., the holding company of First National. [Continue]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In July 2017, Megan Olson was named president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of South Dakota. For the preceding 13 years, Olson was president and CEO of the Watertown, S.D., Chamber of Commerce. BankBeat’s Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Nasseff Hilgert spoke to Olson about her new role. Q. How did your work with … Read more
Terry Burrington, well known to bankers in Wisconsin, died Tuesday, Jan. 23. He was 74. In 1976, Burrington became the marketing officer for Prairie City Bank in Prairie du Chien, Wis. In 1981 he started a marketing and consulting business, Financial Marketing Corporation. He operated the company up until the time of his death. For 13 … Read more
Richard P. McKenney has been elected to the U.S. Bancorp board of directors, effective November 2017. [Continue]
With the new year, James Neff moved from executive vice president to president of Horizon Bancorp and its subsidiary, $3.5 billion Horizon Bank, Michigan City, Ind. Most recently, Neff focused on overseeing consumer and mortgage lending, having been with the bank since October of 1999. [Continue]
Tim Keane and W. Kent Lorenz joined the board of First Business Bank, Milwaukee. They previously served on the board of First Business Bank-Milwaukee, which dissolved June 1 when its holding company, First Business Financial Services, Inc., merged its three bank charters into one. [Continue]
Jerry Peck has joined the Community Bankers Association of Illinois as senior vice president of governmental relations. [Continue]
Within months of taking the helm at Des Moines, Iowa-based Bankers Trust in 2008, President and CEO Suku Radia made public an ambitious goal for the $2.7 billion bank: He wanted to double the bank’s size by the time his 10-year contract came to an end. Now, with Radia set to retire at the end of this month and bank president Don Coffin preparing to add CEO to his title, a similar pronouncement tied to growth should not be expected. [Continue]
Patrick Derpinghaus, executive vice president and chief audit executive of Associated Banc-Corp, Green Bay, Wis., announced he plans to retire March 1, 2018. Derpinghaus, who joined Associated in 2011, had a successful career in various audit, accounting and administrative roles within the financial services industry spanning four decades. He also played an integral role in leading the Associated Veterans Network. [Continue]