Michigan-based Sturgis Bancorp is implementing the next phase of the succession plan for its subsidiary, Sturgis Bank and Trust Co.
Jason Hyska, senior vice president and head of retail lending, was named CEO of Sturgis Bank & Trust. He replaces Eric Eishen, president and CEO of the bank holding company and bank. Eishen will remain president and CEO of the holding company and director of the bank.
Hyska joined Sturgis Bank and Trust in 1996 as a teller and has since been promoted multiple times. He graduated from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, with a finance degree; the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.
Eishen has spent his entire career at Sturgis Bank and Trust. He began as a facilities assistant and teller while still a teenager. His father, Leonard Eishen, served as CEO of Sturgis Bank and Trust Company from 1976 until he retired in 2002. That same year, Eric became president and CEO of the bank holding company and bank.
Matt Scheske, SVP and head of commercial lending, was appointed president and chief operating officer. Scheske has worked at the bank since 1999 as a part-time teller and intern before transitioning to a full-time commercial lending position four years later following his graduation from Concordia University, Mequon, Wis., with a mathematics degree. Scheske, who also graduated from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Hyska and Scheske were appointed to the bank board in July during a quarterly meeting.