Three Texas Community Bankers Receive KlariVis’ 2024 Banking on Brilliance Award

On October 29, Roanoke, Virginia-based KlariVis, a cloud-based, universal enterprise dashboard and analytics solution for bankers, announced the winners of its 2024 Banking on Brilliance Awards. The award recognizes remarkable women in community banking nationwide who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in driving transformation through innovation and data. Each nominee and winner was nominated by a … Read more

First National Bank of Bastrop Hires Dillon as Chief Financial Officer

First National Bank of Bastrop recently hired Kristina Nocella Dillon, CPA to serve as chief financial officer. She joins the bank with a strong background in financial management and more than 25 years of working with and for community banks. Prior to joining First National Bank, Dillon led and trained audit teams throughout her career … Read more

First National Bank of Bastrop Names Valderrama Austin Market President

First National Bank of Bastrop has promoted Fil Valderrama to serve as Austin market president. He will take the helm at the Austin loan production office to further grow this market and oversee area lenders. Valderrama has been a member of the First National Bank of Bastrop team for more than 32 years. He previously … Read more

Goertz Retires After Almost Four Decades at First National Bank of Bastrop

Tammy Goertz, senior vice president, branch manager and deposit operations manager at First National Bank of Bastrop, has announced her retirement effective April 12. With more than 38 years of service at First National Bank of Bastrop, she is one of the longest-tenured employees in the bank’s history. Goertz began her banking career in 1979 … Read more

Anderson to Lead First National Bank of Bastrop Upon Sharp’s Retirement

Reid Sharp, the longtime president and CEO of First National Bank of Bastrop, is retiring next February and will be succeeded by the bank’s chief financial officer, Chase Anderson. The bank’s board of directors unanimously voted to promote Anderson to the role of president, effective April 4, 2022, with Sharp continuing in the role of … Read more

First National Bank of Bastrop Hires Anderson as CFO

Chase G. Anderson has joined First National Bank of Bastrop as chief financial officer. He will be responsible, in part, for preparing the bank as it approaches $1 billion in assets. With more than 15 years of banking and finance experience, he most recently served as the executive vice president/chief accounting officer and treasurer at … Read more