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10 community bank executives
These ten community bank executives are presidents and CEOs of US community banks, from family-led banks with deep local roots to multi-branch business banks and a mutual savings bank. A reader can learn how community bank executives run their banks from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Allen Liestman
LinkedInExperience: President CEO · Center National Bank
President and CEO of Center National Bank in Litchfield, Minnesota, with locations in Litchfield, Plymouth and Chaska, since 2014. He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at Grand Rapids State Bank (2008–2014), President of Victoria State Bank (2001–2008) and a retail lending manager and commercial lender at First National Bank Bemidji (1994–2001).
Brian Camp
LinkedInExperience: President/CEO · Citizens Bank of Morgantown
President and CEO of Citizens Bank of Morgantown in West Virginia since 2022. He writes that he is the fourth generation of his family to lead the bank, headquartered on High Street since 1922, and that its decisions are made with an eye on the next hundred years. He rose through the bank as Consumer Loan Officer (2009–2010), VP of Operations (2010–2018) and Executive Vice President (2018–2022).
Gary C. Beilman
LinkedInExperience: President & CEO · The Dime Bank
President and CEO of The Dime Bank in Honesdale, Pennsylvania since 2005, which he describes as an independent community bank founded in 1905. He was the bank's Executive Vice President and CEO (2002–2004) and Senior Vice President and Senior Lending Officer (1989–2002), so he has led its lending side as well as the bank as a whole.
James Beckwith
LinkedInExperience: President CEO · Five Star Bank - California
President and CEO of Five Star Bank since 2003, a community business bank he says operates in the Sacramento Valley through seven offices plus two non-depository offices, and Chairman of the California Bankers Association board since 2021. He was earlier Chief Financial Officer (1995–2003), and also Chief Operating Officer and Chief Credit Officer, at Redwood Empire Bancorp and National Bank of the Redwoods.
John Montgomery
LinkedInExperience: President and Chief Executive Officer · Community Bank
President and CEO of Community Bank in Washington County, Pennsylvania since 2020. He was previously Chief Credit Officer at First Banks, Inc. (2014–2020), Senior Credit Risk Officer at Susquehanna Bank (2012–2014) and President of Susquehanna Bank's Pennsylvania division (2010–2012), so his earlier roles were in credit, risk and division leadership.
Mary Willis
LinkedInExperience: President & Chief Executive Officer · The Fidelity Bank
President and CEO of The Fidelity Bank in North Carolina since 2010, after rising through the bank as part-time teller (1987–1992), mortgage processor (1992–1993), accounting officer (1993–1999) and Chief Financial Officer (1999–2010). She writes that she greeted her first customer as a teller at 17 and has always valued putting the customer first.
Mike Lyles
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · The Community Bank
Chief Executive Officer of The Community Bank in Liberal, Kansas since 2022, after more than a decade as President and CEO of FNB Coweta (2011–2022). He was earlier a President at BancFirst (2004–2010), a senior enterprise risk and special assets consultant at Deloitte (2010–2011) and briefly a commercial lending SVP at Grand Bank of Tulsa (2011).
Phil Richard
LinkedInExperience: President & CEO · First National Bank of Brookfield
President and CEO of First National Bank of Brookfield in the Chicago suburbs since 2002. He writes that after earning an accounting degree from the University of Illinois he began his career in audit at Arthur Andersen, where he was a Senior Consultant (1997–2002), before moving to the bank, so he came to bank leadership from public accounting.
Stephen DeCastro
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · Maine Community Bank
Chief Executive Officer of Maine Community Bank since 2025, which the profile describes as a nearly $3 billion mutual savings bank headquartered in Portland, Maine, after serving as President and CEO of Gorham Savings Bank (2016–2025). The profile says that before joining in 2016 he led KeyBank's Wealth Management group for New England, with $1.3 billion under management.
Tyler Wilcox
LinkedInExperience: President and Chief Executive Officer · Peoples Bank
President and CEO of Peoples Bank in Marietta, Ohio since 2024, after serving the bank as Chief Operating Officer (2023–2024), Executive Vice President of Community Banking (2020–2023), Executive Vice President and Regional President (2019–2020) and President of Peoples Insurance Agency (2015–2019), giving him experience across banking, operations and insurance.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which technology and core system investments are worth it for a bank your size?
- 02How do you compete for deposits and loans against larger banks and fintech lenders?
- 03What does your board expect from you on growth, credit quality and succession?
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