IBAT Associate Member Advisory Council

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About Us

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.  Each council member has a term of three years which can be renewed once.  Learn more.

Members

Feel free to email Council Members with comments, concerns, questions or ideas.

Council Member  Title Company  Email
Ryan
Ryan Esquell, Chairman
 Sales Director Abound Resources resquell@aboundresources.com
Billy
William (Billy) Granville, III, CLU, ChFC 		Owner/Managing Member Granville Financial Group billy@granvillegrp.com


Melanie Edmundson, P.G.

 Principal Phase Engineering, Inc. Melanie@PhaseEngineering.com
Mike
Mike Griffith
 Business Development Manager CalTech mike.griffith@caltech.com
Janine Kasper Sales Executive Deluxe Financial Services janine.kasper@deluxe.com
JP
Joanne Posen
Account Executive Cornerstone Correspondent Lending jposen@houseloan.com
Jay
Jay Kempton
 President & CEO Advantage Health Plans Trust jkempton@kemptongroup.com

Kathy Smith 		President Bank Compensation Consulting, Inc. kathy.smith@bcc-usa.com


Heath Stanley

 Vice President - Technology Compliance GarlandHeart heath@garlandheart.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.
  • 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.
  • Responsible for the recommendation of the “Speed Dating” at the Leadership Division Conference that was adopted by staff.