Pub. 10 2021 Issue 5

4 6 CEO Forum Recap 9 A Century of Family Banking Award Ruggels Family – Southwind Bank 10 50 Year Club Awards 15 Education Calendar 16 Meet the New KBA Board Members 18 Kansas Banks Presented with KBA’s Flint Factor Award 20 Washington Update: Banking on Inclusion: America’s Banks Embrace Bank On Movement By Rob Nichols, President and CEO, American Bankers Association 22 2021 YBOK Annual Conference Recap 25 No Ties Tour Continues 26 Update From the Hill: Preparing for Upcoming Changes By Collin Thompson, BKD CPAs & Advisors 28 Invest in the Health and Well-Being of Your Bank’s Organizational Culture By Josh Heck, Syndeo 34 Legal and Practical Considerations of Electronic Signatures By Marci Kawski, Lauren Capitini and Chrissie Simpson 36 Briefly in Kansas Banking 37 In Memory 38 Picturing Kansas Executive DougWareham, President andCEO Kathy Taylor, EVP, General Counsel Terri D. Thomas, EVP, Legal Department Director Administration AlexOrel, SVP, Government Relations Eric Stofer, SVP, Chief Financial Officer Mary Taylor, SVP, Communications andMarketing Julie Taylor, VP, Computer and Information Systems Sara Blubaugh, VP, ExecutiveAssistant to the President andCEO BreeMagee, Communications &MarketingCoordinator LynneMills, Receptionist/Special Projects Education and Conferences Brenda L. Unruh, SVP, Director, Education & Conferences/Member Services BeckyMilne, VP, Education&Conferences NicoleOrtiz, AVP, Education&Conferences LeAnnMott, AVP, Education&Conferences, DivisionCoordinator Insurance AlexGreig, President, KBA Insurance, Inc. Kent Owens, SVP, KBA Insurance, Inc. Elizabeth Roche, SVP, Employee Benefits Jenny Figge, VP, Operations Cari Charter, AVP, KBA Insurance, Inc. Legal/KBCS Jackie Kuhn, VP, Staff Attorney GwenHill, VP, Staff Attorney AllisonCarpenter, VP, Staff Attorney/Senior ComplianceAuditor Bobby Young, VP, Staff Attorney/ IT andHRConsultant Dylan Serrault, VP, Staff Attorney/ComplianceAuditor Adeel Syed, AVP, Staff Attorney Neal Barclay, AVP, Compliance Specialist/Auditor Jeff Narron, AVP, Compliance Specialist/Auditor Kelly VanZwoll, AVP, Staff Attorney and Government Relations LewisWalton, ComplianceAuditor KerryClark, Publications Editor andCompliance Specialist MeridithDeForest, Administrative Legal Assistant Koren Kabriel, PT Administrative Legal Assistant 6 20 28 © 2021 Kansas Bankers Association | The newsLINK Group, LLC. All rights reserved. The Kansas Banker is pub- lished six times each year by The newsLINK Group, LLC for the Kansas Banker and is the official publication for this association. The information contained in this publication is intended to provide general information for review, consideration and education. The contents do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied on as such. If you need legal advice or assistance, it is strongly recommended that you contact an attorney as to your circumstances. The statements and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the individual authors and do not neces- sarily represent the views of the Kansas Bankers Association, its board of directors, or the publisher. Likewise, the appearance of advertisements within this publication does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any product or service advertised. The Kansas Banker is a collective work, and as such, some articles are submitted by authors who are independent of the Kansas Bankers Association. While the The Kansas Banker encourages a first-print policy, in cases where this is not possible, every effort has been made to comply with any known reprint guidelines or restrictions. Content may not be reproduced or reprinted without prior written permission. For further information, please contact the publisher at 855.747.4003.