Asa Cottrell has been promoted to senior vice president and sales manager for Arvest Bank in central Arkansas.
Most recently, Cottrell served as a senior vice president and manager of Arvest Wealth Management for the bank’s Little Rock and Fort Smith markets. In his 22 years of banking, Cottrell has served as a vice president, location manager and client adviser for Arvest in Siloam Springs.
Greg Garner has been promoted to senior vice president and chief operations officer at Relyance Bank in Pine Bluff, and Tracey Hisaw has been promoted to senior vice president and chief risk officer.
Garner has nearly 30 years of banking experience, and Hisaw has 26 years of banking experience.
Ryan Lilly has been promoted to vice president at BancorpSouth Bank as a commercial lender in Fayetteville.
Lilly serves as a board member of the Northwest Arkansas Appraisers Section. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas and an executive MBA from Tulane University.
Lilly served as chief financial officer for a Benton County nonprofit agency before he joined BancorpSouth in 2013.
Donna Dodge and Daniel Sims have been promoted to bank senior examiner at the Arkansas State Bank Department in Little Rock, and Adam Chase, Kelly Davis, Wes Mathis and Wynne Morgan have been promoted to bank assistant examiner.
Prior to joining the department, Dodge worked for the Bank of Fayetteville. Sims served as a teller at Centennial Bank in Conway while completing a loan internship and as an internal auditor. Dodge and Sims were hired by the department as commercial examiners in September 2013.
Chase, Mathis and Morgan joined the department as commercial examiners in September 2015 at the northwest Arkansas office, and Davis joined as a bank examiner trainee in September 2015.
Thomas “Tom” Rudkin has joined DD&F Consulting Group Inc. in Little Rock as a principal of the bank consulting firm. He will be responsible for mergers and acquisitions and strategic business development. Rudkin has more than 30 years of experience in M&A and investment banking. He has completed transaction projects totaling more than $7 billion.
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