Daniel Daly, president and CEO of the Quad Cities’ SENB Bank, was elected 2018-2019 chair of the Illinois Bankers Association, and Jeffrey D. Snyder, president and CEO of Forreston State Bank, Forreston, was named IBA Banker of the Year. [Continue]
Karl Adam has been elected the 2018-2019 chair of the South Dakota Bankers Association. He is Pierre market president for First Dakota National Bank, Yankton. Adam joined First Dakota National Bank as part of its acquisition of Dakota State Bank, Blunt, in early 2016. He was president and CEO of the then $35 million bank, … Read more
Mark Miedtke, president of Citizens State Bank of Hayfield, has been elected the 2018-19 chair of the Minnesota Bankers Association. The organization also added two new directors to its board. [Continue]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Oak Ridge Financial Services Group, Inc., based in Golden Valley, Minn., announced May 21 it is expanding its investment banking practice. To facilitate the expansion, Oak Ridge has brought several people into the organization. Five of its new hires comprise its newly created Equity Capital Markets Group, and two will provide structured finance services for specialty finance companies. [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]