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Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer and Advisory Director

Austin Bank is a community bank headquartered in Jacksonville, Texas with assets of $1.4 billion. Bank offices are located in 32 East Texas locations within 22 cities and eleven counties. Austin Bank is locally owned and operated by the Austin Family who celebrates over 104 years of service in the Texas banking industry. Over the past 113 years, Austin Bank continues to stand tall as a strong, stable financial institution offering personal and business customers a variety of financial services.

Financial institution executive with 20+ years of experience in project management, strategic execution and senior level staff management. Strategic and innovative professional with a record of dynamic results in bank operations and financial management coupled with proven strengths in generating higher productivity and vital cost reductions. Extremely well versed in project management to drive technology strategy that streamlines core functions, gains new efficiencies, and minimizes headcount. Very proficient at cultivating and motivating employees across all functional areas of the bank to execute strategic imperatives. Holds an MBA degree and Graduate Certificate from Southwestern Graduate School of Banking. Specialties: syndicated loan servicing, loan operations, retail bank operations, deposit operations, call center, document imaging, information security, various large scale project implementations (online banking, BCP, terminal service, virtualization, DR, etc...), mortgage wholesale and retail lending department, marketing, vendor negotiations and contract review.