Pub. 2 2014 Issue 4

www.uba.org 24 John Allen was hired to originate leads and will be responsible for developing business relationships for Bank of American Fork’s new St. George branch. Allen has 45 years of commer- cial banking experience, with 39 of those years in Washington County. In his early banking days, Allen worked as an assistant operations officer, assistant cashier, and consumer loan manag- er. Curtis Anderson joins Town & Country Bank as a Vice President in the bank’s loan department. Mr. Anderson has over 19 years of business lending experience at various finan- cial institutions, and has underwritten loans ranging from multi-million dollar business transactions to small working capital loans. An SBA loan specialist, he is widely regarded for delivering superb customer service. Rick Anderson was recently promoted to senior vice president and chief operations officer for Bank of American Fork after serving as a regional manager for six years and Anderson will oversee operations, IT, and the credit card department. Prior to working for Bank of American Fork, he was with Far West Bank for 30 years, where he was the chief financial officer and on the board of directors. Jacqueline Candelario , IRA Specialist, Salt Lake City, work on CIT Bank’s IRA deposit products Viviane Consoni , Associate moved from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to provide risk poli- cy support for CIT Bank Jonathan Cooley , Report Analyst, Salt Lake City provides reporting for deposit operations for CIT Bank Cheryl Cragun joins Town & Country Bank as a Concierge Banker. Ms. Cragun began her banking career in 1984 in Fredonia, Arizona before joining a bank in St. George four years later. Since that time, she has worked in a variety of roles at three financial institutions in St. George, including service manager, teller supervisor and new accounts representative. Mike Draper was recently promoted from Bank of American Fork’s branch administration specialist to the branch operations manager for the bank’s recently-announced St. George branch. Draper will take the lead on customer service and help ensure that Bank of American Fork offers the same small-town service it has been known for since its first branch opened in 1913. Ryan Jones has been promoted to senior vice president and north region manager at Bank of American Fork and is responsible for overseeing the bank’s northern branches. He has been with Bank of American Fork for nine years as a commer- cial lender and branch manager and serves as a loan committee member at the Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund and volunteers as a Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America. Mike McDonald was recently hired by Bank of American Fork as a vice president and commercial loan officer. Previously, McDonald worked as a commercial loan officer for 13 years at AmericanWest Bank in Provo after graduating from Utah Valley University. Alana Medina , IRA Specialist, Salt Lake City, work on CIT Bank’s IRA deposit products Jeff Rose has been hired as a commercial loan officer by Bank of American Fork , bringing to the bank his experience in commercial and industrial lending, and already, great new customers. Rose has been in banking for 12 years and one of the few bankers in the state who is also a licensed CPA, giving him a unique understanding of customers. Rose also volunteers as the head of the finances committee and a board member for a local charter school. Bradley Stucki was hired to be the branch manager of Bank of American Fork’s St. George branch. Stucki will oversee the branch in offering products and services that fit the St. George community. His experience comes from more than a decade in commercial and industrial lending and commercial real estate lending as a vice president at Zions Bank, where he originated more than $300 million in loans. Sam Taylor was recently promoted to branch manager at Bank of American Fork’s Murray branch and is responsible for over- seeing the branch and ensuring that it remains profitable. Prior to his promotion, Taylor was a loan officer at the bank’s Draper branch, and before that, he was a credit analyst at Community First Bank and a risk analyst for Volvo Commercial Credit. Kyle T. Winther was hired by Bank of American Fork as a loan officer for the bank’s Riverton branch and is responsible for building and maintaining a portfolio of commercial loans and establishing relationships with customers so they can benefit from the bank’s products and services. Winther has gained more than 20 years of experience in commercial lending, primarily in equipment leasing and financing, including as the credit manag- er for Tetra Financial Group in Cottonwood Heights. n Bankers on the Move