Debbie Maw, chief financial officer of HomeStar Bank and Financial Services, played a key part of shepherding the bank through the troubled times of the Great Recession. Maw is one of six women honored by NorthWestern Financial Review as a 2015 Outstanding Woman in Banking. “She bleeds HomeStar,” said Patrick Martin, president of the $331 … Read more
Kristina Schaefer volunteers so many hours for her community and the banking industry that it’s a wonder she is able to hold down a full time job at Brookings, S.D.-based Fishback Financial Corporation, said Curt Everson, president of the South Dakota Bankers Association. Since Schaefer joined Fishback Financial in 2007, she has grown her role … Read more
Bankers’ Bank was just weeks old when Edie Tholo started as the Wisconsin bank’s receptionist. Since then, as it has grown from a de novo to one of the premier bankers’ banks in the Midwest, Tholo also has advanced. In January 2015 she became the bank’s first female president and CEO. Tholo is one of … Read more
As the Duluth, Minn., market president for Beacon Bank, Deb Otto has made it her mission to mentor younger bankers the way she was mentored. Otto is one of six women honored by NorthWestern Financial Review as a 2015 Outstanding Woman in Banking. Along with her own hard work and initiative, Otto credits her mentors … Read more
Using her own initiative and tenacious work ethic, Val Fick has climbed from secretary to mortgage lender at Security State Bank, Fergus Falls, Minn. Fick, vice president at the $131 million bank, is one of six women honored by NorthWestern Financial Review as a 2015 Outstanding Woman in Banking. When former Security State Bank president … Read more
In July, Kris Holoch was named to succeed her father Kelly Holthus as CEO of the $1.4 billion Cornerstone Bank. She came to that position after overcoming a year of personal tragedy to lead the York, Neb., bank to continued success and expansion. Holoch is one of six women honored by NorthWestern Financial Review as … Read more