TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Melissa Butler has joined Dallas-based State Bank of Texas as senior vice president of lending. She has more than 20 years of experience as a senior lender and business development professional, most recently with PMC Commercial Trust, where she developed extensive expertise with SBA 7(a) and SBA 504 loans concentrated in the hospitality sector. This … Read more
Houston-based Cadence Bank recently named Myra Caldwell its first chief diversity officer. Serving the bank for the past nine years, she most recently led its treasury management and deposit operations department. She brings extensive experience leading change through 14 bank mergers, department reorganizations and broad-based system and process improvements. Caldwell will develop the vision, mission and … Read more
Dallas-based American Bank has added Zane Smith to its executive team as executive vice president of credit and risk management. He brings more than 10 years of banking and regulatory experience to the new position. Smith spent eight years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where he served as associate national … Read more
Amarillo-based FirstBank Southwest CEO Andy Marshall has joined the Texas Bankers Association (TBA) board as the chairman’s discretionary selection. This direct appointment was made by TBAs CEO Chris Furlow and chairman-elect Chip Jenkins. Marshall serves as CEO, president and director of FirstBank Southwest. He earned a BS degree from the University of Maryland and his … Read more
Graylin Beals has been promoted to vice president at Galveston-based HomeTown Bank National Association. He serves as operations manager/assistant branch manager at HomeTown Bank’s Friendswood Bay office. Beals joined the HomeTown Bank team as a new accounts representative at the main branch in Galveston in 2011. He was named new accounts supervisor at the main … Read more
Conner Price has been named director of lending for Omaha, Nebraska-based Security National Bank. He serves in the Dallas branch, assisting customers with all lending needs, including personal loans, mortgages, business loans and private banking. He also helps with other departments, including wealth management and deposits. Prior to joining Security National Bank, Price built out … Read more
Gary Ward has been named director of wealth management for Omaha, Nebraska-based Security National Bank. He serves in the Dallas branch, advising clients on trust and probate administration, estate planning and investment management. Prior to joining Security National Bank, Ward served on the high-net-worth team at J.P. Morgan Private Banking for more than 10 years. As … Read more
James E. Landen Jr. is Omaha, Nebraska-based Security National Bank’s new Texas market president and the son of James E. “Jim” Landen, Security National Bank’s chairman and CEO. Landen Jr. has 10 years of banking experience in the Dallas market. He previously worked at Veritex Community Bank as senior vice president and as market president of … Read more
Cuero-based TrustTexas Bank recently promoted Polet Navarro to assistant vice president at the bank’s office in New Braunfels. She has 28 years of experience in the banking industry and has worked with TrustTexas Bank for the past five years. She started out as a teller, worked as assistant branch manager and has served as the … Read more
Curero-based TrustTexas Bank has promoted Marlayna McKinley to vice president/credit administration officer in the loan department of the Cuero branch office. She has 20 years of banking experience, having started as a teller, then in the departments of new accounts, operations and compliance and now credit administration. McKinley attended Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. Established in … Read more