15 Hoosier Banker January 2016 Continued on page 16. IBA Presents 2016 Board of Directors The activities of the Indiana Bankers Association operate under the guidance of the Association’s board of directors. Acting as governing body of the IBA, the board consists of 21 members: three elected officers, one past chairman, the Association president/CEO, two representatives of national associations, the Future Leadership Division president, a non-Indiana headquartered bank director and 12 representatives from four IBA geographical regions. At present there are 20 board members, due to a vacancy in the northwest region; the vacancy is to be filled shortly. The functions of the board are to develop IBA policy and to establish long-range goals and objectives. The board also helps determine IBA’s legislative programs and positions on issues affecting the banking community. The IBA board acts with the same authority as the board of a bank or a corporation. An executive committee — composed of the chairman, first and second vice chairmen, immediate past chairman, Association president/ CEO and two appointed directors — is authorized to act in lieu of the board between regular board meetings. Officers serve one-year terms and are elected by the entire membership at the IBA Annual Convention. Members of the 2016 board assumed their positions on Jan. 1. Directors are listed by the capacities in which they serve. Officers Michael H. Head, IBA chairman of the board, is president, chief executive officer and a director of First Federal Savings Bank, Evansville, which he joined in 1980. He has served as a board member of the University of Southern Indiana (USI) Foundation, Deaconess Health System and Habitat for Humanity of Evansville. Head currently is serving on the advisory board of the USI Romain School of Business, the West Side Professional and Business Association and Treasurer of the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation Board. He also serves as a member of the Independent Community Bankers of America lending committee, and he has served on the IBA board as first vice chairman, second vice chairman and as a southwest region director. Head earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana and an MBA from the University of Evansville. Annette M. Russell, first vice chairman, is president and chief executive officer of Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport. She joined the bank in 1991. A certified public accountant, Russell is a graduate of Indiana University-Kokomo, of the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management and of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. She serves on the board of trustees of Logansport Memorial Hospital and on the American Bankers Association Community Bankers Council. Past involvement includes service as campaign chair for United Way; as chair of the Logansport/ Cass County Economic Development Corp.; on the Reading Railroad advisory board; and on the boards of directors of the Cass County Chamber of Commerce and Special Olympics of Cass County. Additionally she had prior service on the IBA board as second vice chairman and northwest region director. Russell was granted the Indiana University Kokomo Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, was inducted into the IU Kokomo Alumni Hall of Fame in 2013, was named Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year for 2007-08 and completed the IBA Leadership Development Program in 2013. She has been honored twice by NorthWestern Financial Review magazine ‒ as a Rising Star in Banking in 2010 and as an Outstanding Woman in Banking in 2014. Clay W. Ewing, second vice chairman, is president of German American, Jasper. He has more than 35 years of banking experience and joined German American in 1994 as president and chief executive officer of a subsidiary bank of the company. Ewing is active in regional economic development and currently serves as chairman of the Perry County Development Corp. and as a board member of the Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana. He additionally serves on various other civic and community boards and has served the IBA as southwest region director. Ewing is a graduate of Lockyear College and of The School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin. Larry W. Myers, immediate past chairman, is president and chief executive officer of First Savings Bank, Clarksville. He additionally serves on the bank’s board of directors and as president of the First Savings Charitable Foundation. Myers joined First Savings Bank in 2005 as chief operating officer and was named to his current position in 2006. He previously served since 1982 with National City Bank, most recently as area president of Southern Indiana. Myers is a member of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council and has served the American Bankers Association on the Community Bank Council and Mutual Council. He is past chairman of the Lincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America and is active with the One Southern Indiana-Chamber of Commerce. A certified trust financial adviser, Myers earned bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University of Kentucky, has completed the Graduate School of Banking of the South and the Cannon Trust School, and holds Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. He has served the IBA as chairman, first vice chairman, second vice chairman and southeast region director. S. Joe DeHaven, IBA president and chief executive officer, joined the Association as president and chief operating officer in 2006, as a result of the merger of the Association with the Community Bankers Association of Indiana (CBAI). In 2007 he was promoted to president and chief executive officer. DeHaven previously served CBAI as president and CEO from 1990 through the 2006 merger. He has prior experience as an executive officer of Merchants National Bank of Muncie - now First Merchants Bank, NA. He is a member and past chairman of the board of trustees of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin; member and past chairman of the board of trustees of the Herbert V. Prochnow Educational Foundation; member of the New Markets Tax Credit Advisory Board of the Cinnaire Corporation Fund for Housing; assistant treasurer and board member of the Indiana Legal Foundation; member of the advisory council of Friends of Traditional Banking; and member of the administrative committee of the State
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