First Defiance Financial Corp. Announces Board Appointments
January 05, 2018 at 09:36 pm
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First Defiance Financial Corp., the holding company for First Federal Bank of the Midwest and First Insurance Group, announced that Terri Bettinger, TK Herman and Mark Robison were appointed to the company's Board of Directors effective January 4, 2018. Bettinger mostly recently served as Chief Information Officer at Franklin County Data Center in Columbus, Ohio. As a First Defiance Board Member, Bettinger will serve on the Audit, Compensation and Risk committees. Herman currently serves as Co-Founder and President of Aptera. As a First Defiance Board Member, Herman will serve on the Corporate Governance, Risk and Investment committees. Robison currently serves as Chairman and President of Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In addition, Robison serves on the Board of Directors for Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries. As a First Defiance Board Member, Robison will serve on the Audit and Corporate Governance committee and on the Board of First Insurance Group.
Premier Financial Corp. is the holding company for Premier Bank (the Bank). The Bank is primarily engaged in community banking. It attracts deposits from the general public through its offices and Website, and uses those and other available sources of funds to originate residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, home improvement and home equity loans and consumer loans. In addition, the Bank invests in United States Treasury and federal government agency obligations, obligations of states and political subdivisions, mortgage-backed securities that are issued by federal agencies, including real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs) and residential collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), and corporate bonds. The Bank offers customers a range of deposit products including demand, checking, money market and savings accounts. The Bank operates approximately 75 branches and nine loan offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania.