IBAT Associate Member Advisory Council
Purpose: To represent IBAT associate members and to serve as a resource for bankers, IBAT staff, and for emerging legislative and regulatory issues.
The chairman sits on the IBAT Board of Directors.
The Council meets quarterly. They have a term of three years which can be renewed once.
The chairman sits on the IBAT Board of Directors.
The Council meets quarterly. They have a term of three years which can be renewed once.
Members
Feel free to email Council Members with comments, concerns, questions or ideas.
| Council Member | Title | Company |
|
| Kirk Hudson, Chairman |
District Sales Manager | Deluxe Financial Services | kirk.hudson@deluxe.com |
| Ryan Esquell | Sales Director | Abound Resources | resquell@aboundresources.com |
| Virginia Grimes | President | The Genesis Group | vgrimes@forgenesis.com |
| Gary Guerrero | Regional Sales Manager | Diebold, Incorporated | guerreg@diebold.com |
| Janine Kasper | Vice President - Western Region Sales |
EFTSource, Inc. | janinekasper@eftsource.com |
| William Maxwell | Senior Vice President | McCoy Myers & Associates, A CSI Company | bill.maxwell@mccoymyers.com |
| Deborah Scanlon | Partner | BKD, LLP | dscanlon@bkd.com |
| Brenda Standlee | President | American Prudential Capital, Inc | bstandlee@americanprudential.com |
| Denise Stigge | Vice President, Association Relations | Pulse EFT Association | dstigge@pulse-eft.com |
| Darlene Revers | Vice President - Member Relations & Advertising Manager | IBAT | drevers@ibat.org |

Accomplishments
- More recognition for Associate Members (ribbons at Convention and recognition at Convention General Session).
- Established Associate Member Orientation and working on an Associate Member Information Exchange.
- 2006 Council recommendation to IBAT Dues Task Force regarding Associate Member (AM) dues tiered structure which was adopted.
- Working on community service project(s) for the involvement of Associate Members with bankers.
- AM Forum set up/initial announcement.
- Status letter to AMs to let them know what is going on at IBAT and what the Council is doing for them.
- New letter to welcome new AMs.
- Web Enhancements on AM Search.
- AM Survey developed, distributed, results tallied and working areas of concern from the survey (website, Forum).
- Implemented the use of the tiered structure created for dues to recognize AMs for the Five*Star Award.
- Created and implement a process to review product/service listing requested and revised current list, dividing into those used and those needed.
Meet the AM Council





