TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE and IDEAS
Terri Brown has joined Addison-based Guaranty Bank & Trust as senior vice president/location manager in Hallsville. Brown is a seasoned banker with more than 40 years of experience. Along with her education from East Texas Baptist University, she graduated from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University. Brown is an active member … Read more
Dallas-based Veritex Community Bank, which specializes in providing depository and credit services to small to mid-sized businesses, has appointed William Ray Jr. as executive vice president/managing director for middle-market banking, Brent Reed as executive vice president/director of commercial real estate and Will Richardson as executive vice president/private banking. All three are joining from Bank of … Read more
Dimmitt-based Plains Bancorp Inc., the holding company for First United Bank, recently announced the addition of Erin Viermann to its Canyon team. She will serve as a senior vice president of commercial lending and office at the Canyon Banking Center located at 801 23rd St. Viermann comes to First United Bank with 24 years of … Read more
Bryan Robinson has been promoted to executive vice president and director of mortgage lending for Longview-based Texas Bank and Trust along with Barbara Berry who is now senior vice president and mortgage loan originator, and Michelle Davis who has been promoted to senior vice president and mortgage operations manager. All three officers are based in … Read more
Henderson-based VeraBank has hired Melanie Becka and Baylor Lyon for its lending team. Becka will serve as senior vice president of mortgage lending and Lyon as vice president of commercial lending. “We continue to grow our talented team of bankers in Bryan-College Station,” says Joel Jackson, senior vice president/regional manager. “Melanie brings extensive mortgage experience … Read more
On April 19, Dallas-based Triumph Bancorp Inc. announced a strategic executive management reorganization to optimize its organizational structure and align more closely with its future growth priorities. Under the reorganization: Ed Schreyer has been named chief operating officer of Triumph Bancorp and its primary operating subsidiary, TBK Bank SSB; Gail Lehmann has been named chief … Read more
Fort Worth-based Colonial Savings FA has hired Von Keomaxay to serve as senior relationship manager, commercial lending in its Arlington banking division branch. He will work within Colonial Savings’ growing commercial banking division to maintain existing business banking relationships, develop new commercial banking relationships and provide leadership, training and support to loan officers and other … Read more
El Paso-based WestStar Bank has announced the promotion of Liliana Miranda to executive vice president/chief commercial banking officer. She will be responsible for leading the commercial lending and treasury management groups. She also oversees WestStar Title Co. In addition, Socorro Rodriguez has been promoted to senior vice president/deputy chief financial officer. In this new role, … Read more
Jesse M. Ozuna has been hired as vice president of public affairs within the public finance and economic development (PFED) division at Harlingen-based Texas Regional Bank. He will help manage the bank’s public policy strategy, as well as help identify and develop public fund opportunities in the bank’s various markets. Ozuna’s career has led him … Read more
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Roselyn “Rosie” Morris Ph.D. to the Finance Commission of Texas for a term set to expire on February 1, 2026. The commission is the governing body of the state banking, savings and loan, and consumer credit agencies. San Marcos-based Morris is a CPA and professor emerita of accounting at … Read more