AG FINANCE EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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Energetic, highly motivated self-starter with strong executive leadership experience and demonstrated team-leading skills. Strong record of improving profits, building brands, and creating shareholder and stakeholder value.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

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>Strategic Planning                                   >Tactical Execution                                                         >Mergers & Acquisitions

>Team Building & Performance                >Company Culture Enhancement                                   >Ag Credit Risk Management

>High Growth Phase Management           >Client Relationship Management                                  >New Venture Start-ups

>Brand & Portfolio Building                       >Staff Training, Development & Enhancement               >Asset Liability Management

>P & L Management                                  >Cost Control & Profit Enhancement                              >Multi-Site Operations Management

 

CAREER EXPERIENCE

 

FIRST DAKOTA NATIONAL BANK            OCTOBER 1998 – PRESENT

PRESIDENT, AGRI-BUSINESS DIVISION

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Executive Management Experience:

>Member of company Compensation Committee

-Human resource oversight (370 plus employees)

-Review & approve all compensation

-Review & approve all promotions

-Approval of all hiring requests

>Led implementation of Integrity Training

>Led centralization of Loan Operations function

>Member of Credit Risk Committee

-Company-wide credit risk oversight

-Supervise $1.3 billion loan portfolio

>Member of ALCO

-Company-wide asset liability management

>Member of company Annual Budget Approval team

>Member of leadership team on Mergers & Acquisitions

>Helped achieve strong, steady company growth & profitability

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Ag Banking Team Leadership:

>Lead annual Strategic Planning & Execution

>Lead Ag Division leadership team

-Ag lender team (35 plus members)

-Ag credit analysis & underwriting team (7 members)

-Ag loan operations team leadership (10 plus members)

-Dakota Mac off-balance sheet lending program

>Established an Ag Advisory Board - 2011

>Established Beginning Farmer & Rancher program - 2012

>Established Keep Farmers Farming consulting department - 2013

>Helped achieve strong, steady growth in loan volumes & profitability

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Promotions Earned at the Company:

>Started as VP, Ag Loan Officer

>Promoted to VP, Yankton Ag Finance Manager – 2001

>Promoted to SVP, Market Manager – 2003

>Promoted to President, Agri-Business Division – 2010

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EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1998

>Dacotah Bank – January 1994 to September 1998

-Positions Held: Loan Officer Trainee, Ag Loan Officer, Branch Manager

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REGIONAL, NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SPEAKING

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>Top Producer Seminar - 2018

>Farm Futures Conference - 2016 & 2018

>Testified before Congress – House Ag Committee - 2017

>American Bankers Association's (ABA) National Ag Bankers Conference - 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

>National Collaborative Farming Conference - 2016

>National Ag Bankers School Faculty - Since 2016

>Montana Ag Bankers Conference - 2015

>World Bank – Financing Agriculture Forum - Colombo Sri Lanka - 2013

>Host of weekly Ag news program on WNAX radio (4 state listening area)

>Frequently quoted in regional and national news publications

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LEADERSHIP & AWARDS

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>Past Chairman of the ABA’s Ag & Rural Bankers Committee

>Current Chairman of the Board for the SD Ag & Rural Leadership Foundation

>Current Chairman of the Board & founding member of the SD Agriculture Foundation

>Past Chairman of the SD Bankers Association’s Ag Bankers Committee

>Voted by peers to the Midwest Banking Institute Board of Directors

>SD’s Rising Star in Banking – June 19, 1999 issue of the Northwestern Financial Review

>Team Captain – Northern State University (NSU) Varsity Football

> Markley Spirit Award for Outstanding Leadership during freshman year NSU Varsity Football

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EDUCATION

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MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD - 2001

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Management, Marketing - Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD - 1993

STONIER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BANKING - ABA at Georgetown University – 2005

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MILITARY EXPERIENCE

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SD Army National Guard – 1988 to 1998 – Final Rank of Staff Sargent (E-6)

>BNCOC Phase I, II, & III NCO Academy – 1996

>PLDC NCO Academy – 1994

>CW4 Jean A. Bronstad Outstanding Artilleryman of the Year – 1991