TS Banking Group Announces Neil Stanley as President of Community Banking
Published: 04/12/2016
April 12, 2016, Treynor, Iowa – TS Banking Group is pleased to announce Neil Stanley as the President of Community Banking. Stanley is currently CEO and Founder of The CorePoint, an industry-leading bank management solutions company with online tools for frontline bankers that showcase improved client experiences. Beginning May 1st, Stanley will continue to lead The CorePoint within his new role with TS Banking Group (TSBG).
To facilitate this dual role, Stanley has hired his daughter, Laura Stanley, after she has spent four years as a consultant at Deloitte. She joins The CorePoint team to work alongside current Chief Operating Officer Julia Hernandez.
As TSBG’s President of Community Banking, Stanley will be responsible for directing growth and profitability of the commercial banking and personal banking functions across all banking charters within the TS Banking Group. He will also be working alongside the leaders of TS Wealth Management and TS Ag Finance to ensure a coordinated effort of business development, operations, and client services across the three divisions of the TS Banking Group.
“We are excited to have Neil Stanley join our team,” stated Josh Guttau, TS Banking Group CEO. “Neil has a proven capacity to deliver high-performance results in banking. His background in leading business units to implement progressive strategies and technologies, his broad background in community banking, and his entrepreneurial spirit are what we look forward to capitalizing on in our next stage of growth in the TS Banking Group.”
Stanley brings over twenty-five years of experience in bank and bank holding company leadership roles with a focus on competitive strategy and organizational structure. During his tenure as CEO at Northwest Bank in Spencer, Iowa, the bank developed into a full service, geographically diversified, united regional community bank with 16 locations. While competitors pulled back, Northwest Bank seized the opportunity to grow loans, deposits, capital, earnings, and a talent pool in 2008/2009. As Chief Investment Officer and Liquidity/Funding Manager at First National Bank of Omaha, he positioned investment portfolios and liquidity needs, developed policy and helped implement ALCO management strategy. Stanley spent 20 years with the Lauritzen Corporation helping lead their community banking network throughout the state of Iowa and Nebraska.
In recent years, through The CorePoint, Stanley has served the banking industry throughout the nation, leading in the design of numerous banking innovations including Optimal Loan & Deposit Pricing Concepts Using Marginal Principles, Limited Edition Savings, and two patented products of CDtwo® Market Value CDs and CD Revolution®. His niche for providing banking-first processes, products, and training for pricing and selling loans and deposits has resulted in great success in many banks.
“When Josh Guttau presented me with the opportunity to join the TS Banking Group executive team, I realized it was a great fit, as I have been a board member since 2012 and am excited to have an even greater impact on this progressive banking group. TS Bank was The CorePoint’s first client in 2010, and I have known the Guttau family over the last 30 years,” reflected Stanley. “Josh’s embracement of entrepreneurial approaches and leading
the TS Banking Group to become a partner on the product patents, even in the early days of The CorePoint has been refreshing. And, now the creativeness of structuring this leadership opportunity to put me in a position to build the TS Banking Group’s community banking division and The Corepoint alongside each other, is truly a unique approach.”
Stanley currently serves as a council member of Prairie Lane Church and board member of Pillar Seminary. Stanley has served as an instructor for several Graduate Schools of Banking, Kansas/Nebraska Schools of Banking, and Iowa School of Banking. He has been a speaker for many organizations including Financial Managers Society, FHLBank Topeka, and Kansas Bankers Association. He has also authored dozens of banking industry publication articles.
Stanley grew up on a farm in southeast Nebraska and obtained both a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. He and his wife, Fara, reside in Omaha, NE, and have three adult children, Grant, Laura and Rachel.
About TS Banking Group:
Treynor State Bank was chartered in 1923, branded to TS Bank in 2005, and was the beginnings of the TS Banking Group (TSBG). TS Bank is a locally owned, community bank with $288 million in assets. In addition, TS Bank has the largest state-chartered C-Corp trust department west of Des Moines with nearly $195 million in assets. TS Bank is dedicated to community prosperity and reinvests 10% of their net income back to the community. Branch locations include Treynor, Macedonia, Atlantic and Council Bluffs, IA. As of October 31, 2014, TSBG acquired The Bank of Tioga with locations in Tioga and Crosby, ND. Michael (Mick) K. Guttau is Chairman of the Board and Joshua M. Guttau is CEO. TS Bank, Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.