TUPELO, Miss., Sept. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- BancorpSouth
Bank, subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc. (NYSE: BXS), has opened a
loan production office in Sugar Land,
Texas, an award-winning community and regional employment
center southwest of Houston.
BancorpSouth's new office, located at 8410 Highway 90A, Suite
100 in Sugar Land, is staffed by a
group of local, veteran lenders and support staff providing a wide
range of commercial and consumer banking services, including
commercial real estate, construction, and residential lending. The
BancorpSouth Sugar Land team includes Steven E. Smith, Fort Bend Market President;
E.D. Sadka, Senior Vice President and Commercial Lender;
Richard A. Mahabir, Senior Vice President and Commercial
Lender; Ronnie R. Kirkwood, Vice
President and Commercial lender; Jennifer
Galvez, Assistant Vice President and Loan Administrative
Assistant; and Lori Soliz, Loan
Administrative Assistant.
Steven E. "Steve" Smith is a seasoned banker with 38
years of diverse banking experience. Prior to joining BancorpSouth,
Smith most recently served as a commercial lending group executive
vice president /area manager in Sugar
Land. Smith has held a variety of bank executive management
positions. He is a graduate of McMurray College and of the
Southwestern Graduate School of Banking. He is a long-time resident
of Sugar Land,
Texas.
E.D. "Dick" Sadka has 30-plus years of diverse banking
experience. Prior to joining BancorpSouth, Sadka most recently
served as a senior vice president and commercial lending officer in
the Sugar Land area. Sadka is a
Certified Treasury Professional, and has held a variety of bank
management positions. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and the BAI
Graduate School of Banking. He is a long-time resident of
Houston, Texas.
Richard A. "Rich" Mahabir has over 15 years of banking
experience. Prior to joining BancorpSouth, Mahabir most recently
served as a senior vice president and commercial lending officer in
the Sugar Land area. He is a
graduate of the University of Houston
with a BBA in Finance and received his formal credit training from
the Wells Fargo College of Commercial Credit. He is a resident of
Katy, Texas.
Ronnie R. Kirkwood has 37
years of diverse banking experience. Prior to joining BancorpSouth,
Kirkwood most recently served as a vice president and commercial
lending officer in the West
Houston area. Kirkwood has held a variety of bank management
positions. He is a graduate of Trinity
University, holds a MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a graduate of
Southwestern Graduate School of Banking. He is a resident of
Houston, Texas.
Jennifer Galvez has 11
years of experience in commercial, consumer, and mortgage
lending. Prior to joining BancorpSouth, Galvez most recently
served as a senior lending assistant in Sugar Land. She has a
Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Ashworth College, Norcross, Georgia and has completed numerous
banking industry courses and programs.
Lorraine Soliz has 9 years
of experience as a loan administrative assistant, customer service
representative and teller.
Cited by Forbes for its quality of life and its pro-business
environment, Sugar Land has gained
a well-deserved reputation as a great place to live and work. "The
area has a strong business climate with proximity to BancorpSouth's
insurance and loan production offices serving the Houston metropolitan area. The Sugar Land market, together with a veteran
BancorpSouth team, provides our Bank outstanding growth potential,"
said BancorpSouth Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Rollins.
Chris Bagley, BancorpSouth
President and Chief Operating Officer, added, "Sugar Land is home to numerous high profile
regional and international corporations and has been recognized for
its economic achievements and quality of life. We are delighted to
have such an outstanding group of commercial bankers, who know this
market so well, join our team."
BancorpSouth Bank currently operates 19 full-service banking
locations in East Texas with
almost $1 billion in net loans and
more than $800 million in total
deposits.
BancorpSouth serves the Houston
metropolitan market area with commercial, P&C and life
insurance products and services through its Houston office of BancorpSouth Insurance
Services, Inc. At year-end 2013, BancorpSouth expanded its
insurance presence in the Houston
market through the acquisition of the assets of the Houston-based GEM Insurance Agencies,
LP. BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc. is one of the
largest bank-owned agencies in the country.
BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered
in Tupelo, Mississippi, with
approximately $13.0 billion in
assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
BancorpSouth, Inc., operates approximately 300 commercial banking,
mortgage, and insurance locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in
Illinois.
SOURCE BancorpSouth, Inc.