As always, our convention delivered a full itinerary of professional development, meaningful connections, new vendor discoveries and a strong sense of community spirit. We gave a warm welcome to new district directors: • Jamie Santistevan, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Native American Bank, District A • Kent Jones, President and CEO, Flatirons Bank, District A • Peter Page, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Frontier Bank, District C Derek B. Williams, ICBA Past Chairman and President and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Georgia, concluded the meeting with a timely industry update and an ICBA brief. Camp ICBC then got down to business with two general sessions, beginning with “The Gift of Influence” from Tommy Spaulding. The second session was an expert panel on fraud, payments and loan review trends moderated by Bud Hollenkamp, Partner, Forvis Mazars, with insights from panel members Scott Wintenburg, Senior Vice President and Chief Growth Officer, Bankers’ Bank of the West; Brian Blauser, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI; and Mark Weitekamp, Managing Director, Forvis Mazars. At lunch, we recognized the four Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC) scholarship recipients: • Amber Hardwick, Wray State Bank, Wray • Max Meints, FirstBank, Erie • Jon Riedel, The Dolores State Bank, Dolores • Scott Schlegel, Alpine Bank, Breckenridge These $2,000 scholarships are given annually to the four top-performing Colorado-based ICBC member bank students and are applied to their tuition for their final year at GSBC. In addition, five high school scholarship recipients were honored: • Jon Bradley • Bay Ellis • Kieran Harris • Quentin Kramer • Lucas Lovato Each student received a $1,750 one-year scholarship. We are excited to follow these 10 | INDEPENDENT REPORT
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