{"id":29364,"date":"2024-03-13T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankbeat.biz\/?p=29364"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:15:18","slug":"amazing-outside-directors-2024-drew-vogel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bankbeat.biz\/amazing-outside-directors-2024-drew-vogel\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Outside Directors 2024: Drew Vogel"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 2023, Diamond Vogel Paint celebrated the completion of its innovation center which will house research and development scientists collaborating to improve the paints and coatings the company has been making since its founding in 1926. Innovation like this along with technology and relationships has always been part of the foundation of the company, something Drew Vogel, grandson of founder Andrew Vogel, knows well, having grown up in the family business. Not surprisingly, these basic tenets of the paint manufacturing company dovetail well with the other industry in which the family has stakes: community banking.<\/span><\/p>\n Vogel was born and raised in Orange City, Iowa, and studied at Orange City\u2019s Northwestern College before completing an industrial administration degree at Iowa State University. \u201cI went to work for the paint company right after school,\u201d he said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t planned on it.\u201d In fact, he had been offered two other jobs and couldn\u2019t decide between General Electric or Caterpillar. So he called his dad, Frank, for advice. Frank asked, \u201cWhat do you get excited about?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n