Gregory Maxwell will represent northeast Indiana on the Indiana Bankers Association Board of Directors in 2015. (Photo Provided)
Gregory Maxwell of Farmer’s State Bank in Mentone will be one of 21 board of directors members for the Indiana Bankers Association who have assumed positions as of Thursday, Jan. 1. The board members were elected elected at the IBA Annual Convention in French Lick in September of 2014.
According to the IBA, “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 state is broken up into four regions, with three Regional Directors for each region. Along with the 12 Regional Directors there are five officers and four Constituent Directors.
Along with Maxwell, the other Northeast Region Directors are Michael C. Marhenke of IAB Financial Bank in Fort Wayne and Michael S. Zahn of First Federal Savings Bank in Huntington.
According to indianabankers.org, “Gregory Maxwell is president and chief executive officer of Farmers State Bank, Mentone. He was named to his position in 2006 after 25 years of prior experience in Bluffton, where he was president of The Old First National Bank and agricultural executive with National City Bank. He began his banking career in 1972 as a trainee with Rush County National Bank. Maxwell is chairman of the Kosciusko Economic Development Corp. and a member of the Warsaw Rotary Club. He is a graduate of Ball State University and of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin.”