24 JULY / AUGUST 2018 FEATURE The slate has been set for new officer candidates in 2019 for the Indiana Bankers Association. Elections are to take place at the annual business meeting in September at the IBA Annual Convention in French Lick. New officer positions become effective Jan. 1, 2019, with officers serving for one-year terms. The IBA nominating committee, led by immediate past chair Annette M. Russell, Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport, has nominated the following officer candidates: • Chairman: Andrew J. Briggs, Bank of Geneva; • First vice chairman: Lucas White, The Fountain Trust Company, Covington; • Second vice chairman: Michael S. Zahn, First Federal Savings Bank, Huntington. In addition to serving on the IBA board of directors, officers serve on the IBA executive committee, along with the immediate past chairman, two appointed directors and the IBA president/CEO. The executive committee has the authority to act in lieu of the board between regular board meetings. Andrew J. Briggs Andrew Briggs, candidate for IBA chairman, is president and CEO of the Bank of Geneva. He represents the fifth generation of his family to serve as president of the bank. Briggs has more than 40 years of banking experience and has been serving in his current position since 1994. He is active on the following boards: Bank of Geneva, chairman; Limberlost Bancshares Inc., chairman; Indiana State Museum, treasurer; Limberlost State Historic Site, corporate secretary; Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority, director; Adams County Economic Development, treasurer; and Adams Public Library System, treasurer. Additionally Briggs was appointed in 2017 to the Indiana Board of Depositories by Gov. Eric J. Holcomb. He is past president of the Geneva Town Council, past treasurer of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, and he has served on the IBA board as first vice chairman, second vice chairman New Officer Candidates 2019 and as northeast region director. Briggs is a graduate of Ball State University and a member of the IBA 40 Year Club. Lucas White Lucas White, candidate for first vice chairman, is president of The Fountain Trust Company, Covington. He joined the bank in 1994 as a parttime teller. White serves as an at-large director of the Independent Community Bankers of America and is the current chairman of the ICBA Safety and Soundness Committee. He was honored as a Rising Star in Banking by the ICBA in 2012 and by NorthWestern Financial Review magazine in 2015. White has served the IBA as past president of the Future Leadership Division and on the IBA board as second vice chairman and in the capacity of FLD president. A practicing attorney, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, a JD from the IU Maurer School of Law at Bloomington as Order of the Coif, and he has completed the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. Michael S. Zahn Mike Zahn, candidate for second vice chairman, is president and CEO of First Federal Savings Bank, Huntington. He joined the bank in 1996, and he was named president in 2005 and CEO in 2011. Zahn is president of the Huntington University Foundation, a member of the board of trustees for Huntington University, and a member of the board of directors of Huntington County Economic Development. Additionally he is past chair of the United Way of Huntington Capital Campaign, the Bowen Center, the Optimist Club, Parkview Huntington YMCA, Huntington County Junior Achievement, Huntington County Chamber of Commerce and Lime City Economic Development. He has served on the IBA board as a northeast region director. Zahn earned an undergraduate degree from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. HB
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