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Cortland Banks Hires, Promotes Four Executives
CORTLAND, Ohio -- Cortland Banks is expanding its executive staff by hiring three managers and promoting a fourth. The personnel additions were jointly announced Wednesday by the company's CEO, James Gasior, its executive vice president, Tim Carney, and board of directors.
"These individuals bring with them industry strength and knowledge to provide customers with customized, forward-thinking solutions," the company said in its announcement. The new executives are:
Danielle Burrows, vice president and retail banking manager. Burrows has 18 years of banking experience, most recently as vice president and regional sales manager for Charter One Bank, where she was responsible for directing 14 retail branches.
"I love working with customers and providing services to meet their financial needs. My favorite place to be is working with my colleagues and customers in the branches, she said.
Burrows is a volunteer with the Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center and Abigail Ministries, and participates in annual fund-raising for Goodwill Industries. She most recently served on the board of directors for Junior Achievement and Girl Scouts of the Western Reserve.
Rocky Page, vice president, retail mortgage lending. New to the Cortland Banks team, Page is a highly skilled mortgage originator in the Mahoning Valley, and was ranked nationally in 2009 as one of the Scotsman Top 200 originators in the country.
Page will be based in Canfield and originate mortgage loans in Mahoning County. He comes to Cortland Banks with more than 20 years of mortgage lending experience. He most recently served as the affiliate director for the Youngstown-Columbiana Association of Realtors.
“My goal is to make the entire mortgage process, whether it be a refinance or a home purchase, as fast and simple as possible," he said.
Joni Everson, vice president, retail mortgage lending. Everson, a mortgage originator for more than 30 years, also joins Cortland Banks and will be covering Trumbull, Portage, Geauga and Ashtabula counties.
Everson, a resident of Bristolville, is a 2009 recipient of the Scotsman Top 200 originators in the country award. Additionally, while she was employed with First Place Bank, she was awarded Top Referrer the past 10 years. Most recently she was an affiliate director for the Warren Area Board of Realtors.
Everson prides herself on being very involved in the closing of her mortgage transactions and says she aims to provide an excellent customer experience with every loan. “I work according to our customer’s schedules," she explains. "If they are free on a Sunday, then I am free on a Sunday. They deserve not only products that fit their needs but their schedules as well.”
David Kovacs, assistant vice president. Kovacs will work at Cortland Banks’ Vienna branch as its community banking manager and business banking officer. Formerly a credit analyst with the bank, he says he will draw on his credit underwriting experience when originating loans.
“I have been with Cortland Banks for four years, and from the top down, Cortland Banks has a people first approach,” Kovacs said.
His memberships include the Risk Management Association, Accounting and Finance Honorary Society, Beta Alpha Psi, American Accounting Association and the Ohio Society of CPAs. Kovacs has volunteered for both the Ohio Society of CPAs’ FETCH! Program (Financial Education Teaches Children Healthy Habits), as well as the bank’s financial literacy programs for local schools.
Cortland Banks was founded in 1892 and today employs 174. The company conducts business in Trumbull, Portage, Mahoning, Geauga and Ashtabula counties.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.