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]
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]
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]
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]
After 21 years with the Nebraska Bankers Association, Joni Sundquist will leave the association to become President/Executive Director of the Nebraska Society of CPAs. She will take up her new post on July 2. Sundquist is Senior Vice President of Communications & External Affairs for the NBA. In that role, she is responsible for all … Read more
Peoples Bank, Wenatchee, Wash., announced the promotion of Audrey Bessonette to commercial banking team leader of the Chelan-Douglas commercial banking group, and the promotion of Karma Vassar who will serve in Bessonette’s former position as senior vice president, commercial banking officer. Both women are based at the Wenatchee Financial Center. Bessonette began her career with Peoples … Read more