January/February 2014
Wisconsin Community Banker
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McKenna Profiled
BROOKFIELD—James McKenna,
president and CEO of North Shore
Bank, was profiled in the Jan. 7, 2014
issue of the Milwaukee Journal Senti-
nel. When asked how the bank weath-
ered the Great Recession, McKenna
said, “We’re very conservative. We’ve
never done subprime lending. We
don’t believe in it. … If you’re going to
run with the bulls, you’re going to get
gored. We don’t run with the bulls.”
When asked about the current reg-
ulatory environment, he responded:
“It’s going to take size to compete
because of what’s descended on the
business, courtesy of our friends in
Washington. … It takes a certain size
to play because of compliance, inter-
nal audit, etc. The ironic part of the
plethora of new regulations is Dodd-
Frank was sold on the basis we’ve got
to deal with ‘too-big-to-fail.’ They’ve
only gotten bigger.”
Community State Bank
Promotes Lanting
UNION GROVE—Community State
Bank has promoted Pam Lanting to
vice president. She
is responsible for
residential real estate
mortgage lending
and management of
the bank’s residential
real estate secondary
market.
“Pam does a wonderful job of get-
ting to know her customers, and then
determining how we can best serve
them. It’s something we pride our-
selves on as a true community bank,”
said CSB president Scott Huedepohl.
Pelletter Joins Mid
America
JANESVILLE—John Pelletter has
joined Mid America Bank as assistant
vice president and senior loan officer.
Bradley Joins Bank First
National
MANITOWOC—Bill Bradley has
joined Bank First National as vice
president of business banking. Bradley
has served businesses in the Fox Val-
ley for more than 15 years.
Van Epps Joins First
Business Financial
MADISON—First Business Financial
Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: FBIZ) has
hired Bonnie Van Epps as vice presi-
dent - talent development manager.
She comes to First Business with
over 16 years of banking experience
and over 10 years of talent manage-
ment experience. Previously, Van Epps
was a talent development manager
with M&I, focusing on leadership
development, employee training, and
talent management. She is certified in
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
and licensed in the Korn/Ferry Inter-
national - Lominger suite of talent
management solutions.
Waterstone Financial
Appoints New CFO
WAUWATOSA—Waterstone Finan-
cial, Inc. and its wholly owned
subsidiary WaterStone Bank SSB have
appointed Allan Hosack as senior
vice president and CFO. Hosack joins
Waterstone after working for 10 years
at Marshall & Ilsley/BMO Harris,
where he was most recently the CFO
of their Wealth Management and
Global Asset Management divisions.
Hosack has a degree in finance and
investment banking from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as
a juris doctorate from the Chicago-
Kent School of Law.
Erickson New SVP at
River Valley Bank
WAUSAU—River Valley Bank wel-
comes Roger Erickson as senior vice
president, director of mortgage divi-
sion. His duties will include building
the mortgage division, adding new
mortgage originators, and overseeing
a team of lenders at the bank’s Madi-
son office.
Menne Joins PyraMax as
SVP
GREENFIELD—PyraMax Bank
welcomes Douglas Menne as sales
manager/senior vice president of com-
mercial lending.
Doyle New HR Officer
OSHKOSH—Choice Bank has pro-
moted Maggie Doyle
to human resources
officer. She earned
her BBA, from
the University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
and in 2012 com-
pleted the Graduate
School of Banking Human Resource
Management School at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Pam Lanting
Maggie Doyle
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