Community Bankers Association of Illinois
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September 2015
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MEMBER
NEWS
Philip C. Carlson,
president and CEO of the
Granville
National Bank
, retired as CEO on June 30, after 41 dedicated
years. Carlson graduated with a B.S. degree in finance with
honors from University of Illinois, Urbana in 1972. He joined
Granville National Bank in 1974 as assistant cashier. Carlson
also graduated from the Graduate Banking School at the
University of Wisconsin in 1980. Contributing to the bank
in various capacities over the years, Carlson has held the
position of CEO for the past 25 years, being named president
in 2008. Carlson remains as president and chairman of the
board of directors. Lynn D. Stickel was named as successor
CEO and EVP.
Heritage Bank of Central Illinois, Trivoli
has appointed
Tim Krueger
as president; he also serves on the bank’s board
of directors. Krueger brings more than 29 years’ management
experience to the position. Scott Hedden remains active with
the bank as chairman and CEO.
Team members of
Marine Bank, Springfield
have recently
earned promotions.
Pam Berbaum
has been promoted to
SVP – branch administration, assuming responsibility for all
12 Marine Bank retail branches. Berbaum joined Marine Bank
in 2006 to manage its first branch location in Champaign.
Since then, she has managed the acquisition of the Neil
Street branch in 2011 and the startup of the Fort Jesse Road
branch in Normal in 2014.
Kim DuVall
has been promoted
to VP – branch administration. She will oversee branches in
Springfield, Chatham, Macomb and Rushville. Since 2002,
DuVall has been manager of the Chatham branch.
Misty
Shaw
is the new branch manager for Marine Bank’s Chatham
location. Shaw helped start Marine Bank’s affiliate Schuyler
State Bank in Macomb in 2006, and was instrumental in
the merger of the two banks in 2013. Most recently, she was
manager of the Macomb branch.
Jen Finn-Rouse
has been
promoted to branch manager at the Macomb location. Finn-
Rouse has been with Marine Bank since 2013, after several
years in banking.
Solomon Snyder
has been promoted to AVP
– commercial lending and retail banking. Based at the Marine
Bank’s Rushville branch, he will serve the bank’s western
region. Snyder earned a degree in business management from
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He joined Marine
Bank in 2012 as a teller and most recently served as an assistant
relationship manager for commercial lending customers in the
Springfield region. In other news,
Della Smith
has joined
Marine Bank as branch manager at Village Green Place in
Champaign. Smith has extensive experience in all aspects of
branch management and customer service.
First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust, N.A., Mattoon (First
Mid)
was named Community Bank of the Year by the U.S.
Small Business Administration at its summit and awards
conference on June 24. “This award is presented to the
community bank with the best overall performance record
for lending to small businesses in Illinois,” announced Bob
Esquivel, lender relations specialist of the SBA in Chicago.
First Mid
has promoted Heidi Smith to branch manager. In
her new role, Smith will be responsible for overseeing the daily
operations of all services provided in the Decatur banking
center. She has held various roles since joining First Mid in
2011, including teller, and customer service representative and
supervisor. The bank has hired
Jeremy Hopwood
as retail
loan officer in its Peoria banking center. Hopwood began his
banking career in 2006 and attended Illinois Central College,
East Peoria. Previous experience includes positions as a
mortgage loan originator, mortgage loan officer, and consumer
banking officer. The bank also hired
Ryan Goodwin
as
community president for its banking centers in Highland and
Maryville. Prior to joining First Mid, Goodwin worked at a
community bank in Highland and Edwardsville. He obtained
a B.A. degree from Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
William M. Tank, Jr.
, EVP and chief credit officer of QCR
Holdings, Inc. has retired after 11 years of service. After a 35-
year professional career, he retired and currently serves as a
consultant to the holding company. QCR, Inc. is a multi-bank
holding company with banks including
Quad City Bank &
Trust Company
, Bettendorf, IA, and
Rockford Bank &
Trust Company
.
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (WKFS)
has hired
former federal regulator
Sandra Braunstein
to provide
compliance management and Community Reinvestment Act
consulting services to the company’s banking clients. She will
also be collaborating with and advising the Wolters Kluwer
Financial Services executive team on a range of strategic
initiatives. In April 2014, Braunstein retired from her role as
director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Consumer
and Community Affairs after nearly 27 years of serving the
agency. In other news, Chartis Research has named Wolters
Kluwer a Category Leader in its 2015 RiskTech Quadrant® on
Enterprise GRC Solutions for the third year in a row. According
to the Chartis report, category leaders are those companies
that can provide a true enterprise governance, finance, risk and
compliance, or GFRC offering, with a broad array of technical
capabilities and an equally impressive range of support services.
The Chartis report evaluates vendors on two key factors—
