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]
Kraig Lounsberry will take over as president of the Community Bankers Association of Illinois on Jan. 1. Only one person has ever held the position, Bob Wingert for the past 43 years. Lounsberry spoke with NorthWestern Financial Review writer Douglas Farmer. [Continue]
Jenny Jakel has been a part of AbbyBank for 41 years, a period in which the Abbotsford, Wis., bank has grown to $458 million from $13 million. Yet, Jakel’s preferred focus does not involve any discussion of profits. For that matter, it hardly deals with AbbyBank’s current customers. [Continue]
Oregon Community Bank’s management could see economic growth taking hold in the Madison area. A suburb of about 10,000 people 10 miles south of the Wisconsin capital, Oregon may be an unlikely place to spot the early bounce back from the recent recession, but Oregon Community President and CEO Steve Peotter was confident the incoming loans in late 2013 and early 2014 were not outliers. [Continue]
When a Safeway plant in southwest Minnesota closed nearly four decades ago, Connie Lonneman needed to find a new job. Just a few miles away, First State Bank Southwest, then based in Rushmore, Minn., had an opening. Lonneman began as a do-it-all, working as a teller, secretary and bookkeeper, adding in whatever else needed tending but might not have a specific title. [Continue]
Tim Kluender has been named president and chief executive officer of Community Bank Owatonna in Owatonna, Minn. Kluender has 24 years of banking experience, with the last 15 years in an executive management capacity. He has spent his entire career working in the community banking industry, beginning as an officer trainee in his hometown bank in Osceola, Iowa. Kluender most recently served as a senior vice president/chief credit officer for First National Bank in Fairfield, Iowa. [Continue]
The jump from pre-calculus to community bank president and CEO is not a typical one. In Shane Pilarski’s case, the jump from high school math teacher to loan clerk at Alliance Bank, Francesville, Ind., was not meant to be permanent. [Continue]
It is a natural symptom of the banker-regulator relationship: Rarely does a banker say something nice about a regulator. Julie Dahle has been the exception on both sides. [Continue]
– Geoff Rand has joined First National Bank and Trust Company of Beloit, Wis., as vice president and retail market manager. Rand is responsible for FNBT’s branches in Rock County, including the four branches in Beloit as well as the Clinton and Janesville offices. Rand comes to FNBT with 25 years of banking experience, most recently at BMO Harris Bank in Janesville, Wis., where he was branch manager and, earlier, group market manager. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Rand has a bachelor of business administration degree with an emphasis in finance. [Continue]
Filing checks in the backroom at Citizens National Bank in Cheboygan, Mich., was the first job Susan Eno ever had. And soon, after 46 years, she will retire as bank president and CEO from Citizens National having only ever received a paycheck from that single employer. [Continue]