Business Digest: April 24, 2022 | Local

Texas Bank and Trust names Employee of Year

Texas Bank and Trust has named Chasity Peiffer as the corporate’s “2021 Employee of the Year.” This award, decided by the financial institution’s officers, acknowledges an worker who distinctly displays the financial institution’s core values of integrity, excellence, mutual respect, professionalism and pleasure.

Peiffer has been employed by the financial institution since April 2018. She serves as retail discipline coach, working with the coaching division and retail management bankwide to make sure thorough and constant coaching for all retail employees in every of the financial institution’s markets. A Lindale native, Peiffer at the moment resides together with her household in Grand Saline. She is a graduate of Tyler Junior College and holds a vocational license in well being science.

Local college districts obtain security award

Claims Administrative Services has introduced that Pine Tree ISD and White Oak ISD, two of greater than 350 Texas college districts and faculties collaborating within the CAS employees’ compensation threat pool program, just lately obtained a security award reserved for members who obtain superior loss management outcomes.

The two districts have been formally acknowledged by CAS at its annual Client Appreciation Luncheon through the 2022 TASA Midwinter Conference on Jan. 31 in Austin. The Billy E. Hibbs Safety Award was offered for achievement in implementing security packages designed to reduce losses and management employees’ compensation prices.

In recognition of their achievement, every district obtained a $500 Annie Ozella Jones Scholarship that the colleges can award to a deserving pupil of its selecting. 

Promotions introduced at Texas Bank & Trust

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Texas Bank and Trust introduced quite a lot of promotions at its worker awards dinner March 22 in Longview.

Among these acknowledged have been Caryn Pepper, who was promoted to vice chairman and govt assistant; Ryan Davis, assistant vice chairman and portfolio supervisor; Regina Mixon, assistant vice chairman and treasury administration service relationship supervisor; Nicole Haddock, administrative officer and retail department help supervisor; Rebecca Lynn, coaching officer; Robbie Corbett, administrative officer and mortgage processing supervisor; Rachel Speed, administrative officer; Sissy Stevenson, administrative officer and payroll and advantages supervisor; and Bernardo Zuniga, administrative officer and mortgage processing supervisor.

Caryn Pepper joined Texas Bank and Trust in its mortgage division in 1993. She transferred to the financial institution’s belief and investments division in 1996 and in 1998 was named Texas Bank and Trust Employee of the Year. In 2003 she transferred to the manager division the place she most just lately labored as assistant vice chairman and govt assistant. Pepper, a graduate of Central High School in Phoenix and attended Stephen F. Austin State University. She has served on the boards of the American Cancer Society, ArtsView Children’s Theatre, the Longview Museum of Fine Arts and serves as LOBO Football Booster Club Treasurer. In January 2020 she was acknowledged as a 2020 Star Over Longview in recognition of her 35 years of neighborhood service with many nonprofit organizations in East Texas. Pepper and her husband, Joel, have two grownup sons.

Ryan Davis joined the financial institution in 2011 and has served in a number of positions throughout the wealth administration division, together with managing present portfolios for belief, retirement plan companies and funding administration accounts. Davis holds a Bachelor of Business Administration diploma from Baylor University. He serves on the board for the Longview arboretum.

Regina Mixon has been employed with Texas Bank and Trust since 2020, most just lately as enterprise growth officer in its treasury administration division. She attended Texas Baptist College in Longview and has been energetic in her neighborhood, serving the Greater Longview United Way as division chair for FIRE, as firm coordinator and as a member of the allocations committee. She is a board member and previous president for ETCADA/DORS, and is a earlier board member and president of Longview Community Ministries. Mixon is also a Junior Achievement volunteer monetary literacy instructor for Pine Tree High School.

Nicole Haddock has been employed by the financial institution since March 2011. She serves as department help supervisor, aiding all branches with methods points, buyer requests and day-to-day capabilities. Haddock is the administrator for the financial institution’s teller platform and the liaison for retail on-line account opening specialists. Additionally, she supervises the Longview-area float tellers and department companies representatives and mentors new tellers as soon as their coaching is full. Haddock serves as a board member and vice chairman for the manager board of Longview Community Ministries and is the coordinator for its Coats for Kids marketing campaign

Rebecca Lynn joined Texas Bank and Trust in February 2008 within the financial institution’s retail companies division. Upon transferring to the human assets division, she turned its retail coach, and in 2018 achieved the Certified Bank Training Professional designation by the InterAction Learning Training Institute. Lynn graduated from Union Grove High School and earned a felony justice diploma from Tyler Junior College. She and her husband, Josh, have two youngsters and are members of Calvary Baptist Church in Gladewater.

With virtually 40 years of banking expertise, together with 19 in mortgage operations, Robbie Corbett has been with the financial institution since February 2018, most just lately serving as a mortgage processing supervisor. She oversees and manages non-real property mortgage processors within the financial institution’s fundamental location in addition to in its operations middle in The Colony.

Rachel Speed has labored within the banking trade for 14 years, the final six with Texas Bank and Trust and most just lately as utility help supervisor. In that place, Speed supervises troubleshooting inside platform methods and participates in and assists with challenge implementation. A graduate of Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, she studied enterprise at Tyler Junior College.

Sissy Stevenson has been employed within the human assets division of Texas Bank and Trust since July 2013. As payroll and advantages supervisor, she oversees all payroll processes and worker advantages for the financial institution’s 500 staff. She has accomplished the Human Resource Management School by the Graduate School of Banking on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a graduate of Texas Bank and Trust’s 2020 Leadership Class. A Gladewater native, Stevenson and her husband, David, have two daughters, and so they reside in Hallsville.

Bernardo Zuniga has been concerned in banking since 2007. Prior to becoming a member of Texas Bank and Trust in 2018, he handed the Securities Industry Essential examination and holds FINRA Series 6, State Registration Series 63 and Life License designations. Zuniga is a Longview High School graduate and attended Kilgore College. He and his spouse, Yuvani, have two sons.