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Amada Alvidrez, Regional Retail Sales Manager at Equity Bank in Guymon, Oklahoma, has been elected as Chair for the 2025-2026 cycle. Alvidrez has been a member of FOTB’s executive committee since 2021.
Alvidrez has advocated for community banking by serving on Oklahoma Bankers Association committees and Board of Directors. Alvidrez served as the Chair for the Oklahoma Bankers Association 2022 – 2023. She has served on the Guymon Schools Education Foundation since 2019 and Oklahoma Panhandle State University’s Alumni and Friends Board since 2018.
Alvidrez graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Education from Oklahoma Panhandle State University. She attended various Oklahoma Bankers Association schools before attending the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, graduating with honors in 2009. Alvidrez has spent her 30-year banking career in the same building at City Bank and Trust and at Equity Bank after CBT’s merger with Equity Bank in 2018. Her passion for community banking has grown as she has performed various roles including data processing, teller, personal banker, HR director, IT director, market president, and regional retail sales manager. She joyfully utilizes her teaching background to coach her team daily. Alvidrez lives in Guymon, Oklahoma, with her husband and 7-year-old daughter.
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Greg Hayes Elected Vice Chair
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Greg Hayes, President and CEO of Kish Bank and its parent company, Kish Bancorp, Inc. of Belleville, Pennsylvania, has been elected FOTB's vice chair for the 2025-2026 cycle. Hayes has been on FOTB's executive committee since 2023.
He serves on the Board of Directors for the Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County, as well as its Economic Development Council, which supports regional economic growth and partnerships. Hayes also serves as Chair of the Bankers Advisory Board of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors; a board member of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association’s (PBA) Political Action Committee and a member of multiple other PBA committees. He is also a member of the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Hayes is a graduate of Lafayette College with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He worked at Merck before joining Kish’s retail banking team in 2006. He then served in various roles of increasing responsibility, including branch management, retail and commercial lending, and operations, during which time he graduated with honors from the PA Bankers School of Commercial Lending and the Advanced School of Banking. He and his wife reside in State College, Pennsylvania with their three children.
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Mike Winder to Continue as Secretary-Treasurer
Winder has been assisting FOTB since it's inaugural year in 2012 as the organization's executive director, and is honored to continue as the group continues to grow and expand its impact. He's been a vice president of community development at Zions Bank in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the president and CEO of consulting firm Neptune Strategies.
Winder has been a staff member or volunteer for several congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. He's also served 14 years in elected office himself, as a city councilman, mayor of West Valley City (second largest city in Utah), and as a state representative in the Utah Legislature. Currently, he is also the city manager of Millcreek, Utah and an adjunct professor in Public Finance at Southern Utah University.
Holding both bachelor and Master in Business Administration degrees from the University of Utah and an executive leadership certificate from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Winder is the author of 14 published books (primarily regional and political history). Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he and his wife Karyn are the parents of four. He is nearing the completion of his goal of visiting fifty states by age fifty (look out, Minnesota and North Dakota!).
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BANKER NEWS BITS:
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Overregulation of banks, not political bias, is what causes customers to be barred from the banking system, according to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan in a speech before the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
- U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-K.Y., have reintroduced their respective legislation to ensure businesses have fair access to banking.
- President Trump this month issued an executive order that, among its provisions, disbands agency advisory committees on community banks and credit unions as part of the administration’s effort to trim the size of government.
- The Trump administration intends to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau operating, although in a more streamlined form, according to a new court filing.
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