1st Source Bank / South Bend
Amanda Hull has joined the bank as regional sales manager with 20 years of financial services experience. Her volunteer work includes Junior Achievement, the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Boys and Girls Club. Hull earned her bachelor’s degree from Western Governors University.
Centier Bank / Merrillville
Lisa O’Neal has joined the bank as vice president, regional sales manager. She has more than 15 years of financial services experience across three other local institutions. O’Neal volunteers with Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana and Leadership Lafayette. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.
Karolina Dragulski has joined the bank as assistant vice president, business banker. She has 25 years of banking experience.
Dijana Hrncic has joined the bank as a branch manager with nearly seven years of banking experience, focused on small business lending, financial education, management and sales.
Kevin Kickert has joined the bank as a branch manager with more than 25 years of banking experience. He serves on the board of the Crown Point Chamber and advisory board for the Dean and Barbara White Southlake YMCA, volunteers with the Crown Point Rotary as well as the Crossroads Chamber, where he was named 2023 Volunteer of the Year. Kickert was also recognized by the Times of Northwest Indiana as Best Banker of the Region in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Paige Conquest has been promoted to mortgage loan officer. She has been with the bank since 2013, most recently serving as a mortgage loan closer. Conquest volunteers with Meals on Wheels, Tradewinds Food Bank, the Northwest Indiana Food Bank and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association and Indiana Mortgage Bankers Association and graduated from the Xinnix Mortgage Academy.
John Mackenzie has joined the bank as a mortgage loan officer. He volunteers with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Mackenzie graduated from Arizona State University.
Sylvia Magallanez has joined the bank as a mortgage loan officer with more than 25 years of experience in lending and mortgage origination. She is an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana and the Homebuilders Association of Northwest Indiana. Magallanez is NMLS certified and licensed in multiple states.
Community First Bank of Indiana / Kokomo
Jeff Hartley has joined the bank as vice president, commercial lender. He has 12 years of experience in branch management and business banking relationship management. Hartley volunteers with the Indiana Cystic Fibrosis Planning Committee.
Jibreel Kobaree has joined the bank as assistant vice president, contact center manager. He has 16 years of customer service experience across various industries, including several years in banking.
Tyler Smith has been promoted to bank officer, commercial lender. He has seven years of banking experience. Smith serves as treasurer for the Family Service Association of Howard County and is a member of the Kokomo Y’s Men. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University.
Crossroads Bank / Wabash
Tina Wood has been promoted to vice president, mortgage lending. She has been with the bank since 2003.
First Farmers Bank & Trust Co. / Converse
Greta Notz has joined the bank as Treasury management officer with nearly 20 years of banking experience. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
First Federal Savings Bank / Evansville
Jessica Aldridge has been promoted to vice president, senior retail loan advisor officer. She has spent her entire 18-year career with the bank. Aldridge is a board member with the Pike County Chamber of Commerce and Pike County Economic Development, treasurer for Harbin Prayer Warriors and volunteers at United Way’s Day of Caring and Junior Achievement. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Vincennes University and has completed the Indiana Bankers Association’s Mortgage Lending School.
Dan Dennison has been promoted to vice president, commercial loan officer. He has been with the bank for five years, with 26 years of total banking experience. Dennison serves in multiple capacities for Granted, an organization that provides wishes to children with terminal and life-threatening conditions, including on its board of directors. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, his master’s from Oakland City University, and graduated from the Washington Semester Program at The American University.
Evie Barr has been promoted to assistant vice president, senior retail loan advisor officer. She has been with the bank for six years. Barr is active with her local Business Networking International chapter, “Money in the Morning.” She earned her bachelor’s degree from Oakland City University.
Hannah Keown has been promoted to assistant vice president, retail market trainer. She has been with the bank since joining the industry six years ago. Keown earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Evansville.
First Merchants Bank / Muncie
Justin Karvasky has joined the bank as senior vice president, corporate controller. He has 13 years of banking experience after five years of doing accounting work in other industries. Karvasky earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.
Horizon Bank / Michigan City
Bert Autrey has joined the bank as a senior sales representative with the bank’s new equipment finance sales team. He has 40 years of experience, including 15 years as owner/operator of his own boutique independent equipment financing enterprise. Autrey graduated from Auburn University.
Don Chadwell has joined the bank as a senior sales representative with the bank’s new equipment finance sales team. He has 25 years of experience. Chadwell volunteers with Habitat for Humanity. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee.
Lori Giefer has joined the bank as a senior sales representative with the bank’s new equipment finance sales team. She has 20 years of experience. Giefer earned her bachelor’s degree from Morehead State University.
Heidi Phillips has joined the bank as a senior sales representative with the bank’s new equipment finance sales team. She has 23 years of experience. Outside the bank, she volunteers with United Way, Habitat for Humanity and Bulldogs Youth Hockey. Phillips graduated from Northern Iowa University.
Craig Tillison has joined the bank as a senior sales representative with the bank’s new equipment finance sales team. He has 30 years of experience. Tillison earned his bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University.
Huntington National Bank / Columbus, OH
Mike McGreal has joined the bank as a commercial credit analyst. He volunteers as an assistant football coach for Our Lady of Mount Carmel and a member of the emerging leader council for St. Mary’s Early Childhood Center. McGreal earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
Lake City Bank / Warsaw
Daniel M. Sloan has joined the bank as vice president, credit administration manager with 30 years of experience in financial services. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
Lisa M. Goon has been promoted to retail loan operations manager and officer with 25 years of experience. She volunteers with Junior Achievement, the bank’s Reality Store and the Kosciusko County Community Foundation.
Adam A. Gardner has joined the bank as an internal audit officer. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Ball State University.
Emily R. Jones has been promoted to retail banking officer. She has been with the bank for five years. Jones earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University – South Bend.
Leah M. Osborn has been promoted to retail banking officer. She has been with the bank for two years. Osborn volunteers with Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana’s BizTown.
Nick M. Scott has been promoted to assistant property manager, security officer. He has been with the bank for five years. Scott is a reserve police officer for the Silver Lake Police Department.
Old National Bank / Evansville
Rob Kruse has joined the bank as a wealth management advisor with 25 years of experience. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Providence College in Rhode Island.
United Fidelity Bank / Evansville
Kimberly Woodard has been promoted to first vice president-human resources. She has been with the bank since 2020 as vice president-human resources and brings two decades of HR experience to the bank. Woodard volunteers for Hospice at a local hospital and a variety of other events in her community. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Oakland City University and a master’s degree from the University of Evansville.
Gerald Montgomery has been promoted to assistant vice president, director of Treasury management. He has been with the bank for seven years. Outside the bank, Montgomery serves on the board for Youth Resources of Southwestern Indiana.
