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.
Kluender is a 1993 graduate of Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he majored in economics/finance and obtained a minor in mathematics. In 2006 he graduated with distinction from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.