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CEO Q&A: Opportunity Rising in the Midwest

ABA Community Banking

After a career as a nonprofit executive, Midwest BankCentre Chairman and CEO Orvin Kimbrough discusses the unique perspective he brings to his role and how his bank is reaching underserved communities in the St. Louis area. The post CEO Q&A: Opportunity Rising in the Midwest appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank. offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. Merchants & Planters Bank. Bank assets: $250 million. Today, a proud survivor of industry consolidation pressures, the bank has $250 million assets and operates 11 locations in five counties.

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Field of Dreams

Independent Banker

Tony La Russa was a professional baseball manager for 33 years, serving the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. Independent Banker talked with him before the Community Banking LIVE 2016 conference in March, where he spoke as a general session speaker. Now there are so many values.