TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
TEXAS BANKING NEWS, PEOPLE AND IDEAS
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
Dallas is home to three new leaders for BOK Financial’s treasury management team across an eight-state footprint. Tammy Foy has been promoted to national sales director for treasury services at BOK Financial, the parent company of Bank of Texas. She joined Bank of Texas in 2013 as the treasury sales manager for Dallas/Fort Worth and … Read more
Dimmit-based Plains Bancorp Inc., the holding company for First United Bank, recently hired Monty Rogers to serve as Lubbock market president. He will office at the Lubbock Northwest Banking Center. Rogers comes to First United Bank with 29 years of experience in the financial services industry. Rogers is a 1993 graduate of Texas Tech University … Read more
Arlington-based. Affiliated Bank recently promoted Stacy Williams to director of residential finance. He joined the bank in 2007 and has more than 20 years of corporate banking, residential development and construction experience throughout North Texas and the surrounding markets. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and earned his MBA degree in finance from … Read more