Amazing Outside Directors 2024: Ashley Podhradsky
When you ask Ashley Podhradsky to explain a cybersecurity concept or the current threat landscape, she offers you a cheerful warning: “I could spend all day on this.” [Continue]
When you ask Ashley Podhradsky to explain a cybersecurity concept or the current threat landscape, she offers you a cheerful warning: “I could spend all day on this.” [Continue]
Andrew Young lives up to his name on the Starion Bank board — he is the youngest director serving the Bismarck, N.D.-based bank. [Continue]
If we’re going to have real debates about how or whether to legalize marijuana, we’re going to need better data. Loosening federal restrictions on researching the impact of the drug — whether good or bad — is a long-overdue step. [Continue]
BankBeat Editor in Chief Mara Gawarecki encourage hiring decision-makers to take a hard look at whether that degree is really necessary for positions on the entry-level side. [Continue]
For his advocacy work building up the industry at the local, state and national levels as well as his thoughtful, deliberate dedication to the essence of community banking, Bryan Bruns has been selected as BankBeat magazine’s 2024 Banker of the Year. [Continue]
For her decades-long contributions to the bank and her community, Tammy Gibbons is being honored as a 2023 “Outstanding Women in Banking.”
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Five Park State Bank female executives are collectively being honored as 2023 “Outstanding Women in Banking” for their work on a pandemic-hampered merger and their contributions to the bank’s impressive growth. [Continue]
Between bank failures, climbing interest rates, liquidity concerns, commercial real estate (non)occupancy rates and labor market problems, the economy of 2023 has no shortage of worries to offer community bankers. Offering his perspective on the state of the industry both national and local is David Lamb, president and CEO of Oxford Bank, based on the northern edge of the Detroit metro. [Continue]
For his leadership at Reliabank and beyond, Josh Hogue is being honored by BankBeat magazine as a 2023 “Rising Star in Banking.” [Continue]
Jena Cogswell comes to bank marketing from a slightly unusual background. A professional athlete, she spent time playing soccer for both league and national teams. Now, she’s ready to tell the story of Fargo-based Bell Bank as its chief marketing officer. [Continue]