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TEXAS Broadway Announces Board Succession; Names Ladensohn Chair with Goudge’s Retirement Louisiana’s IberiaBank In late March, Broadway Bank an- Ladensohn holds a Names Presidents for nounced that DAVID LADENSOHN has BS degree in Northeast and Northwest been named chairman of the board of from the Wharton directors, following School at the Arkansas Regions the retirement of University of On April 2, Lafayette, Louisiana-based chairman and Pennsylvania and an IberiaBank announced two promo- longtime Broadway MBA degree in tions—presidents for its markets in Banker JAMES D. international Northeast and Northwest Arkansas. GOUDGE. Ladensohn business from GOUDGE MICHAEL A. HALLMARK has been retired in 2006 as Pepperdine Univer- named senior vice president/Northeast chairman and CEO sity. He completed the owner/president Arkansas market president. He most of KLN Steel management program at Harvard LADENSOHN recently served as Products Co. and Business School and mediation training the company’s joined the Broadway Bank board in at Harvard Law School. Northeast Arkansas 2013. Prior to his 21-year tenure at KLN “David brings talent, expertise and market manager. Steel Products, he worked for Bank of energy to the board,” says DAVID BOHNE, He joined Iberia- America in a number of capacities, CEO. “At the same time, we couldn’t be Bank in 2006. including vice president and manager of more thankful for Jimmy’s leadership Hallmark is a the Hong Kong corporate banking office. Continued on page 7 graduate of Arkansas State HALLMARK University with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. TEXAS First Financial Bank Promotes Morris CHRIS HOWE has been named senior vice president/Northwest to President and CEO of Fort Worth Region Arkansas market president. He most The board of directors of Abilene-based Morris holds a BS degree from recently worked as First Financial Bank NA announced the Abilene Christian University and an MS Northwest Arkan- promotion of MARCUS MORRIS to degree in finance and economics from sas market president and chief West Texas A&M University. He is also a manager. He executive officer of graduate of the Southwestern Graduate moved to the the bank’s Fort School of Banking at Southern Method- region in 2015 to Worth region. He is ist University. work as commer- replacing MARTIN Morris is active in the Tarrant Coun- cial group manager, NOTO who has ty community, serving on the board for having joined HOWE accepted a position the parks and recreation department IberiaBank in 2009. with a Dallas bank. of the City of Keller and as a volunteer Howe is a graduate of the University of Morris started at for the Keller Education Foundation. He Arkansas with a degree in commercial MORRIS First Financial Bank is a member of the Keller Chamber of banking. in 2010 as a commercial loan analyst in Commerce and Leadership Keller. Founded in 1887, IberiaBank oper- Abilene. In 2012, he was promoted to First Financial Bank NA is a subsid- ates locations in Louisiana, Arkansas, commercial loan officer in Keller, iary of First Financial Bankshares Inc., Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Florida, specializing in commercial real estate, which operates multiple banking regions Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, working capital and equipment loans. with 73 locations in Texas. • Mississippi, Missouri and New York. •

PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY EXCEPT THE FIFTH MONDAY OF THE MONTH TEXAS Community National Bank Announces Several Executive Promotions and a New Hire STUART BEALL has been promoted to ex- ance officer. In addition to numerous ecutive vice president and chief lending years of experience in banking compli- officer for Midland-based Community ance, he is also a 10-year veteran of the National Bank. He has more than 13 U.S. Air Force. Tarin graduated from the ESTABLISHED 1942 years of banking industry experience University of the Incarnate Word in San (USPS 041180) and has been with Community National Antonio with a degree in interdisciplin- Bank since 2005. Beall earned his BBA ary studies and an MBA degree. Southwest banking news degree from Angelo State University. DAISY SOLIS has been promoted published every Monday except BRAD BULLOCK has been promoted to assistant vice president. She joined the fifth Monday of the month at to executive vice president and chief Community National Bank in 2014 as 1700 Rio Grande St., Ste. 100 operations officer. He earned a BBA an internal loan review analyst and Austin, Texas 78701 degree in finance and business ad- obtained her loan review certification Neil Ferguson, Editor and Designer ministration from Eastern New Mexico in 2018. Solis has a BBA degree in inter- Alina Greavu, Publication Manager University. national business from Florida Interna- Lindsey Gehrig, Associate Editor CARL MILAM has been promoted to tional University and an MS degree in Tavian Ford, Website Manager executive vice president and chief credit economic research from the University Bob Brimer, Advertising Manager officer. He has been with Community of North Texas. National Bank since 2004 when he GINA QUIROZ has been promoted Contact Bankers Digest at graduated from Texas Tech University to assistant vice president. She has 13 512/474-6889 with a BBA degree. years of banking experience, serving for [email protected] RYAN LOVELL has been promoted the past six years in the treasury de- bankersdigest.com to executive vice president and chief fi- partment at Community National Bank. For display or classified nancial officer. Since joining Community CHERYL BINGHAM has been promot- advertising inquiries, email National Bank in 2000, he has served in ed to vice president. In her new role, [email protected] various roles in the lending, operations she oversees the bookkeeping, fraud, and finance/accounting departments. ACH, wires and debit cards depart- One year subscription rate: Lovell graduated with a BBA degree in ments. Bingham joined Community Print and digital $59 management from Texas Tech University National Bank in 1997 after working for Digital only $39 and earned his master’s degree in pro- several years with the police depart- fessional accounting from the University ment and court system. Opinions expressed by of Texas of the Permian Basin. Community National Bank serves writers of bylined articles in this Community National Bank has hired customers in Midland, Odessa and publication are not necessarily JESSE TARIN as vice president/compli- Stanton. those of Bankers Digest. We make • no representations or warranties for information, products or services contained in any advertisement in this magazine or on the Bankers Digest website. Editorial guidelines may be obtained upon request. Articles and photos may be submitted to above address or sent via email.

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2 | Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 Preparing for Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IS TRANSFORMING ALL INDUSTRIES, including financial services. To learn how are dealing with the transformation, A analytics leader SAS and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) conducted a survey last December of more than 2,000 representatives from across the financial services industry on the roles AI currently plays in their work flow and/ or the roles they expect it to play in the near future. Those surveyed included bankers, “Financial services organizations are /securities professionals and wealth/asset managers—specifically striving to compete in the new AI-driven targeted at financial services positions with a risk-related role. For the purposes of the marketplace,” says TROY HAINES, senior survey, AI included machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, vice president and head of the risk man- forecasting and optimization. agement division at SAS. “It is important for firms to bring together risk profes- sionals and data scientists to examine The survey reveals that 81 percent cited a skills gap to using AI. More than well-defined, real-world problems that of risk professionals in the financial half of respondents (52 percent) said can be addressed with AI. Not every services industry have already seen they were at least somewhat concerned problem requires an AI solution, but it benefits from AI technologies. The top that their firms lack the necessary skills is important for risk professionals to be areas where respondents are reaping to implement and maintain AI. knowledgeable of the available tech- those returns include improved process automation (52 percent), credit scoring ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY, OF THOSE NOT YET USING ANY FORM OF (45 percent) and data preparation (43 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 84 PERCENT PLAN TO BE USING MACHINE LEARNING percent). Around one-third of respon- dents also reported seeing benefits AND NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. from model validation, calibration and selection. They also listed many challenges to nologies, so they can choose the best “At this point there’s little doubt that further adoption. A large majority of re- option to address their challenges.” AI is here to stay, and that is no differ- spondents said that among the biggest Download the full report, Artificial ent for risk professionals and financial obstacles are data availability and qual- Intelligence in Banking and Risk Man- services firms,” saysMARK CAREY, GARP ity (59 percent), key stakeholders’ lack agement: Keeping Pace and Reaping co-president. “While more than half of of understanding of AI (54 percent) and Benefits in a New Age of Analytics, at survey respondents described at least interpretability of models (47 percent). bit.ly/BankingOnAI. • moderate knowledge of their firms’ cur- rent and planned use of AI, the survey suggests institutions are still very much exploring AI, with a lot of questions remaining.” For those risk and financial service professionals who haven’t yet tried this fast-emerging technology, they plan to soon. According to the survey, of those not yet using any form of AI, 84 percent plan to be using machine learning and natural-language processing in the next three years. Additionally, in the next three years, almost all respondents expect AI to improve their jobs at least somewhat. Register They anticipate AI will lead to higher today at productivity (96 percent), faster time tbb.bank! to gain insights from data (95 percent) and more data insights for faster, better decisions (95 percent). Though respondents believe AI is and will continue to become embedded More information & in their organizations, respondents also w w w . trebgibst.rbataion kco m• i n8g 0so0o-n5! 2 2 - 9 2 2 0

Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 | 3 TEXAS Guaranty Bank & Trust Hires TEXAS Goertz, Meeks, Hopkins and Riviere Duran Promoted to Assistant Mount Pleasant-based Guaranty Bank & MIKE HOPKINS has joined the bank VP at WestStar Bank Trust recently announced the hiring of as executive vice president/commercial El Paso-based WestStar Bank announced four seasoned bankers to the team. lending. During his 24-year banking ca- the promotion of JONATHAN DURAN to NATALIE SAIKOWSKI GOERTZ has reer, his focus has been in the medical assistant vice president/commercial joined the bank as senior vice presi- and professional fields. lending. He will dent/treasury management and com- ALICIA RIVIERE has joined the bank continue to develop munity development. Since launching as vice president/location manager and manage business her banking career in 2007, she has of Guaranty Bank & Trust’s Northwest banking relationships excelled in private banking and treasury Houston location. She brings 38 years within the community. management. of banking experience that includes Duran first joined TIM MEEKS has joined the bank credit administration, loan operations WestStar Bank in as vice president/SBA servicing and and lending. 2014 as a business portfolio manager. He brings 30 years Established in 1913, Guaranty Bank loan analyst. He of experience in SBA loan servicing to & Trust operates more than 30 locations DURAN earned his BA degree Guaranty Bank & Trust. in Texas. • in economics and government from the University of Texas. Established in 1990, WestStar Bank serves the El Paso, Las Cruces, New Mex- ico, and Northern Mexico area. •

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Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 | 5 TEXAS Governor Abbott Appoints Happy State Bank’s ARKANSAS Hickman to Texas Economic Development Corp. Board Louisiana’s First National On April 8, the Texas Economic Develop- Breakfast committee, Texas Tech Bankers Bank Hires Jones ment Corp. welcomed a new board of Foundation board and the West Texas as SVP/Correspondent directors appointed by Governor Greg A&M University executive advisory com- Abbott. The mittee. He is former chairman and vice Lending Officer for Arkansas organization chairman of the United Way of Amarillo Baton Rouge-based First National markets Texas and Canyon and a former member of Bankers Bank has tapped KEITH JONES globally as a the Canyon Main Street economic de- to serve as senior vice president and premier business velopment committee. Hickman studied correspondent destination. Among marketing at Texas Tech University. lending officer for those newly “Pat Hickman embodies the defini- the bank’s Arkansas appointed by tion of economic development in Texas,” region. He formerly Governor Abbott is says Robert Allen, president and CEO HICKMAN served as senior J. PAT HICKMAN, of the Texas Economic Development vice president/ chairman and CEO of Amarillo-based Corp. “Since 1990, Pat and his team commercial lending Bancshares and its subsidiary, Happy have grown Happy State Bank into one officer with Capital State Bank. of the fastest growing community banks Bank in Little Rock. JONES Hickman previously served as chair- in the nation. We are thrilled to draw Over his 35-year man and vice chairman of the Indepen- on his wealth of knowledge to let other banking career, Jones has held various dent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT), businesses know that they can go big in senior management positions, including director of the IBAT Education Founda- Texas [the organization’s motto]. city president and manager of commer- tion and as chairman of IBAT Services. “We believe this powerful group of cial lending teams at various Arkansas He is a former member of the Texas dynamic individuals will help to make us banks. Department of Banking commissioners even more competitive, as an organiza- He holds a BS degree in business council and the Independent Commu- tion and as a state.” administration from the University of nity Bankers of America government The Texas Economic Develop- Arkansas as well as an MBA degree from affairs, education and federal legislative ment Corp. is a nonprofit organization the University of Texas. committees. dedicated to economic development, “We are excited to have someone Additionally, Hickman is a mem- business recruitment and job creation with Keith’s seasoned background and ber of the Amarillo Community Prayer in the State of Texas. • expertise in commercial lending and finance join the First National Bankers Bank team,” says JAY WISENER, the bank’s Arkansas region president. “Keith’s existing relationships with our customer banks will further our strong tradition of service beyond comparison.” Established in 1984, First National Bankers Bank serves the correspondent banking needs of more than 600 com- munity banks throughout the Southeast U.S. •

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6 | Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 TEXAS First State Bank in Wise County Broadway Bank continued from page 1 Promotes Vincent and Gibbs to Banking Officers and inspiration. His impact on this insti- tution, the surrounding community and Chico-based First State Bank recently ASHLEY GIBBS also has been announced two promotions. promoted to banking officer. She will Texas banking in general is immeasurable.” Goudge joined the bank in 1989 and KACI VINCENT has been promoted to continue to serve as teller manager, banking officer. She will continue to overseeing all was named president and CEO in 1998. serve as personal banker and retail tellers at the Chico, He ascended to the role of chairman accounts manager, Bridgeport, Run- in 2001. Active in his community, he overseeing all away Bay and has held board positions for the Great- new-accounts Paradise locations. er San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, personnel at the She joined First United Way of San Antonio, San Antonio Chico, Bridgeport, State Bank in Economic Development Foundation, Runaway Bay and September 2016 as Southwest Research Institute, KLRN Paradise branches. a teller, was Public Television and UTSA Development. GIBBS Vincent has seven promoted to Additionally, he has served with the Texas years of banking assistant lead teller in 2017 and teller Bankers Association, San Antonio branch VINCENT experience. She manager in 2018. Gibbs holds an of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, joined First State Bank in 2016 as a Associate of Science degree from North American Bankers Association govern- personal banker and was promoted to Central Texas College. ment relations council and the Federal retail accounts manager in 2018. She First State Bank, Wise County’s Home Loan Bank of Dallas. holds an associate’s degree in business oldest community bank, was founded in Established in 1941, Broadway Bank administration from Weatherford 1896 and currently serves Chico, Bridge- reports $3.6 billion in assets and oper- ates 35 financial centers in San Antonio, College. port, Runaway Bay and Paradise. • Austin and the Texas Hill Country. •

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Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 | 7 TEXAS Woodforest National Bank Wins Consumer Bankers TEXAS Association Award for Community Development Efforts Legend Bank Announces The Woodlands-based WOODFOREST ecosystem,” says RICHARD HUNT, CBA Intent to Acquire NATIONAL BANK recently received the president and CEO. Independent Bank’s Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) “We hope this award sheds light on a 2019 JOE BELEW AWARD, which recogniz- continuing need to help activate, grow Whitewright Location es outstanding community development and sustain local entrepreneurial eco- On April 15, Bowie-based LEGEND efforts. The bank was recognized for its systems, and that others will join the BANK announced its plans to acquire WOODFOREST FOUNDRY INITIATIVE. The Woodforest Foundry which is open to a branch location in Whitewright from award was presented to Woodforest Na- everyone,” says JAY DREIBELBIS, Wood- McKinney-based INDEPENDENT BANK. tional Bank for the most innovative and forest National Bank president and CEO. Legend Bank currently serves custom- impactful bank small-business initiative “The Foundry…is not an incuba- ers in Grayson and Fannin county with during the CBA LIVE Conference. tor,” says DOUG SCHAEFFER, the bank’s locations in Whitesboro, Bonham and The Woodforest Foundry helps entre- executive vice president/CRA executive Sherman. The Whitewright branch will preneurs turn their passion into action director. “It is curated coaching to take allow Legend Bank to increase service by testing their ideas and ability to run action. Woodforest’s Foundry starts to these communities when the tran- a business while minimizing capital loss. with public community events that sition is complete. The bank has eight The tool is facilitated by entrepreneurs demystify entrepreneurship through additional locations in North Texas for entrepreneurs as mentors to enhance candid conversations with successful spanning from Wichita Falls to Fort local entrepreneurial ecosystems. entrepreneurs from the community and Worth and North Richland Hills. “Woodforest’s Foundry program en- often fills needs simply by connecting “The acquisition provides us the courages entrepreneurs to guide other local resources. We look forward to col- opportunity to add new customer entrepreneurs with the same end goal laborating with other organizations to relationships and expand our branch in mind: enhancing the entrepreneurial stimulate entrepreneurship locally.” • footprint within our current service area,” says MICKEY FAULCONER, Legend Bank president and CEO. “This addition is an outstanding growth opportunity for Legend Bank and we are pleased to welcome Independent Bank’s White- wright customers and employees to the Legend Bank family.” The acquisition has been ap- proved by the boards of both financial institutions and, subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year. Established in 1890, Legend Bank NA has 11 bank locations throughout North Texas with total assets more than $697 million. • Support from the ground up.

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TEXAS First National Bank Albany/Breckenridge Breaks Ground on Abilene Location On March 12, FIRST NATIONAL BANK AL- hands-on personal service and invest- BANY/BRECKENRIDGE broke ground for ment in current technology provide a new banking office in Abilene located a valuable alternative for customers,” at the corner of Merion St. and Buffalo says DAN NEFF, CEO. “This means the Gap Rd. Abilene is First National Bank’s time is right for us to invest in Abilene.” fifth market; the bank also has locations The 9,030-square-foot office is in Albany, Breckenridge, Gordon and scheduled for completion in the second Strawn. The market president in Abilene quarter of 2020. Until then, the bank is longtime banker SCOTTY LINDLEY. continues to operate from its current Randall Palmore, Albany president; Lynne Teinert, board member; “In these days of big banks and leased space in Abilene’s Triad Building. Anthony Sandoval, Abilene senior vice president; Jim Cotter, board impersonal service, we believe our local Established in 1883, First National member; Dan Neff, CEO; Jon Rex Jones, board member; Stephen Jones, board member; and Scotty Lindley, Abilene president ownership, attention to customers, Bank reports assets of $600 million. •

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BANKERS DIGEST APRIL 22, 2019