Banking and Finance

Approximately 20 high-level representatives of greater Kansas City’s financial services industry met at the sparkling Lenexa headquarters of CommunityAmerica Credit Union on a late June morning to discuss the future of their industry.

Chairing the session was Dennis Pierce, CEO of CommunityAmerica, which also co-sponsored the event. Also in attendance were representatives of the banking, accounting, mortgage, bond and investment banking sectors.

This Industry Outlook assembly was part of Ingram’s magazine’s ongoing effort to highlight business issues in Kansas City’s greater metropolitan area.

Although there were some interesting divisions among these groupings, and even within them, participants found enough commonality of purpose to establish some larger and potentially groundbreaking themes.

Participants Include:
Front Row, left to right
Jon Baum, George K. Baum & Co.
Ann Dickinson, Dickinson Financial Corp.
Jean Claytor, CommunityAmerica (Host & Sponsor)
Jack Dillingham, Piper Jaffray
Cal Glasco, Great Southern Bank
Tom Blackburn, Kansas Venture Capital, Inc.
Paul Thompson, Country Club Bank
Bob Litan, Kauffman Foundation
Dave Anderson, Gold Bank

Back Row, left to right
Linda Hanson, Enterprise Bank & Trust
Bob Regnier , Bank of Blue Valley
Barry Davis, BKD
Roger Arwood, Gold Bank
Dennis Pierce, CommunityAmerica
(Chair, Sponsor & Host)
Mark Jorgenson, US Bank
Tom Swank, Security Benefit
Jim Sangster, UMB Bank
John Hense, Jr., Christenberry Collet & Co.
Mike Maddox, INTRUST Bank