Jack Hopkins may never know how much a call from his father 30 years ago was made out of paternal duty and how much of it was rooted in business sense, but that call set his feet on a banking path he’s followed ever since. [Continue]
Rarely does someone fresh out of college looking for a creative job respond to an ad from a bank. Then an assistant manager at a local restaurant, Becky Miller saw a First Bank Financial Centre listing for a marketing assistant. A dozen years later, Miller is officer for corporate marketing at the $1.1 billion Oconomowoc, Wis., bank. [Continue]
The United States is facing a crisis in rural health care. In the next decade, demand for physicians is projected to grow by up to 133,200 while supply is projected to grow by only three-fourths of that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. That leaves a substantial shortfall of doctors. [Continue]
The years from 2008 to 2010 weren’t fun for bankers. Yet, those were the years Andy Schornack credits as the set-up for his current success as the president and CEO of Flagship Bank Minnesota, Wayzata. [Continue]
How did a career community banker end up with a vital operations responsibility at every Green Bay Packers home game? The same way he became co-founder, president and CEO of Wisconsin’s youngest bank. It wasn’t what Dave Schuelke knew. It was who he knew. [Continue]