Florida Banking June 2023

PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS

Personal Transactions, Continued from page 27

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Gelsie Torres has joined Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as a customer service

Angela Figueroa has joined Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as an assistant office manager at the bank’s Winkler branch. She is responsible for helping oversee the bank’s daily operations, including assisting customers with personal

representative at the bank’s College branch. She is responsible for assisting customers with personal and business banking transactions. Torres is an experienced banker with more than 25 years of experience working at various credit unions and regional banks. Torres

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and business banking transactions. Figueroa is an experienced banker with more than 15 years of experience working at various national and regional banks.

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Terrabank welcomed Agustin de Goytisolo as senior vice president, commercial loan officer. He will be responsible for business development for new commercial loan relations and domestic and foreign national residential loans. Before joining Terrabank, he

Ashlee Lopez has joined Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as a teller at the bank’s Bridge branch. She is responsible for assisting customers with personal and business banking transactions. Lopez has prior experience in the customer service

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served as senior vice president, residential team lead at Apollo Bank in Miami where he established foreign national loan program parameters for portfolio lending. Prior, he was head of residential loan production and administration at International Finance Bank in Miami where he established the bank’s residential mortgage division. He also started his own mortgage brokerage company, Georgetown Mortgage, where he served as CEO. Goytisolo is currently a board member at Habitat for Humanity. Formerly he was a board member at Baptist Hospital Foundational. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Georgetown University.

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and hospitality industries.

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank has promoted Sharon Neeld to senior vice president and director of loan servicing and administration.

Neeld is based in the bank’s operations center at its Bridge branch. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the bank’s loan servicing and administration for both residential and commercial loans. Neeld and her team manage all administrative aspects of loans from the time the proceeds are dispersed to the borrower until the loan is paid off. Neeld has more than 40 years of financial experience, including more than 35 years in loan administration and servicing. She joined the bank in 2017 as vice president of loan servicing and has been a Cape Coral resident since 2012. Neeld

Amerant Investments, Inc., a subsidiary of Amerant Bank, announced that Baylor Lancaster-Samuel , an investment professional with more than 20 years of experience, has been appointed chief investment officer. She will manage the Amerant Investments research team and help craft and deliver investment

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research views to internal colleagues and clients. Lancaster-Samuel joined Amerant in 2021 as a fixed income portfolio manager and was later promoted to senior fixed income strategist. Prior to joining Amerant, she worked in credit research at Standard & Poor’s, covering the U.S. bank and non-bank financial sector, and as a publishing analyst at CreditSights (now part of Fitch Ratings) during the financial crisis. She has also worked in institutional and family office roles at BMO Global Asset Management and 1919 Investment Counsel. Lancaster-Samuel is an active member of 100 Women in Finance and the Fixed Income Analysts Society (FIASI). She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and an M.A. from the University of Miami.

Isabela Rodriguez has joined Sanibel Captiva Community Bank as a customer service representative at the Bridge branch. She is responsible for assisting customers with personal and business banking transactions. Rodriguez recently relocated to

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Southwest Florida from Colorado and has a background working in the banking industry, as well as experience in customer service.

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