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Patrick Zeka

President & Chief Executive Officer

Appointed President/CEO as of January 1, 2019. During 2018, he served as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer (partial year) (COO/CFO). Served as CFO until July 2018 when Malinda Thimmesch was appointed CFO. Appointed Executive Vice President/COO/CFO effective January 1, 2016. Served jointly as Executive Vice President/COO/CFO for Farm Credit Services of East Central Oklahoma, ACA (East Central) and Chisholm Trail Farm Credit, ACA (Chisholm Trail) in 2015. Served as Acting President and CFO, then Interim President and CFO for East Central from September 2014 through December 2014. Served as CFO for East Central from 2008 until September 2014. Previously served as a Vice President for U.S. AgBank from 1999 to 2008. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 27 years.

Steve Davenport

EVP / Chief Credit Officer

Appointed Executive Vice President/CCO effective January 1, 2016. Served jointly as Executive Vice President/CCO for Chisholm Trail and East Central in 2015. Served as Executive Vice President/CCO for Chisholm Trail from April 2002 through December 2014, and as Vice President – Credit for Chisholm Trail from January 1997 to April 2002. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 27 years.

John Burk

Chief Lending Officer

Appointed CLO effective January 1, 2018. Served as Senior Vice President of Credit from January 2016 through December 2017. Served jointly as Senior Vice President for East Central Oklahoma and Chisholm Trail in 2015, and for East Central Oklahoma from October 2012 to December 2014. Served as Muskogee lending office Vice President/Branch Manager from September 2010 to September 2012. Served as Loan Officer in the Stillwater lending office from August 2006 to September 2010. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 13 years.

Ryan McBride

Chief Information Officer

Chief Information Officer (CIO) – Appointed to Executive Management Team effective January 16, 2020. Appointed CIO effective January 1, 2019. Served as Vice President Information Technology from 2010 to 2019. Prior to 2010, he was an Infrastructure Designer at Cox Communications in Wichita, Kansas. From 1999-2008 worked for AgVantis in Client Support. In 2011, McBride graduated from Friends University with a Masters of Management Information Systems . McBride holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. He graduated from Wichita State with a Business Administration Degree in 2000. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 18 years.

Malinda Thimmesch

Chief Financial Officer

Appointed CFO effective July 16, 2018. Prior to 2016, directed enterprise data stewardship at American AgCredit and served on the Farm Credit System information data warehouse workgroup from April 2015 to June 2018. Previously served as Manager of Financial Reporting for CoBank from January 2012 to March 2015 and U.S. AgBank from July 2002 to December 2011. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 17 years.

Joe Voth

Chief Risk Officer

Began serving in the role of CRO effective August 8, 2022. Served as the Kingfisher lending office Vice President/Branch Manager from January 1, 2013 to August 8, 2022. Served as Loan Officer in the Kingfisher lending office from August 2008 through December 2012. Total Farm Credit System experience exceeds 14 years. Earned a bachelor’s degree of finance from Oklahoma State University in 2007 and a master’s of business administration from Oklahoma Christian University in 2008. Joe is currently on the board of directors for the Kingfisher Regional Hospital, Mercy Hospital Advisory Board, Kingfisher Educational Foundation, and active in the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, Kingfisher County Wheatgrowers’ Association, and First Baptist Church in Kingfisher. Joe and his wife, Kayla, reside in Kingfisher with their 3 children.

Lisa Cochell

Appointed Director/Audit Chairwoman

Audit Committee Chairwoman. Appointed Director. Three-year term expiring in May 2023. Ms. Cochell serves as a financial expert. Occupation for the past five years – Managing Member of Cochell Tax & Consulting from August 2017 to present. Partner at Patel & Ved certified public accounting business from January 2016 to August 2017. Kiwanis Club member since 1995.

Phillip Landgraf

Director

Three-year term expiring in May 2024. Occupation for the past five years – Owner/operator of Landgraf Fertilizer, where Mr. Landgraf and his wife, Kathy, have provided seed, fertilizer, and chemical sales and application to growers since 1991. His farming operation includes cattle and crops (cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans). Director on the Red River Valley Rural Electric Association since 1997; currently serving as Assistant Secretary.

Brad Scott

Compensation Chairman

Three-year term expiring in May 2025. Mr. Scott is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and serves as a member of the Risk Committee. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching, operating under Brad Scott Ranch (yearling cattle operation) and partner in parents’ cattle ranch. Affiliated with C&S Rentals; Morrison Investments, LLC; West Oak Properties, LLC; and Bradley Ranch II, LLC. Director for Jefferson County Hospital and Duncan Regional Hospital. Chairman of the Board of First Christian Church of Waurika.

Gary Bledsoe

Board Chairman

Three-year term expiring in May 2023. Mr. Bledsoe serves as ex-officio member of the Compensation, Risk, Building and Governance Committees. Mr. Bledsoe is a member of the Executive Committee. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching. Owner and operator of Bledsoe Farms, an Angus seedstock operation. Former consultant in rural economic development for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture. Director of Lincoln County Conservation District and currently serving as Chairperson, Secretary/Treasurer of Crosstimbers Prescribed Burn Association.

Dan Childs

Board Vice Chairman

Four-year term expiring in May 2023. Mr. Childs serves as ex-officio member of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee. Occupation for the past five years – Farming, ranching and agricultural economist with the Noble Research Institute. Vice President of Johnston County Farm Bureau, and Board member of National Farm Credit Council, and Farm Credit Council Services. Member of CoBank District Farm Credit Council and officer for the Foundation for Livestock and Grain Marketing in Denver, Colorado.

Bob Eubanks

Risk Chairman

Three-year term expiring in May 2025. Mr. Eubanks is a member of the Compensation, Governance, Risk and Building Committees. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching. Owner of Eubanks Land, LLC., and co-owner of Eubanks Equipment Company, LLC. (agriculture equipment dealer). Majority-owner of Eubanks Brothers Farm, LLC. Co-owner of Eubanks Investments and Properties, LLC. Board member of Northeast Oklahoma Rural Electric Cooperative Trust Foundation (Operation Roundup) and Chairman of Credentials Committee for Northeast Oklahoma Rural Electric Cooperative. Member of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Welch Baptist Church.

Jay Grace

Director

Three-year term expiring in May 2024. Mr. Grace serves as Vice Chairman of the Compensation Committee. He is a member of the Building and Risk Committees. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching, operating under Rocking G Livestock, Inc. (stocker cattle and feedlot). Partner in 4G Cattle Company, a family corporation (stocker cattle and horses). Member of Ardmore First United Methodist Church. Fireman on the Claypool Volunteer Fire Department.

Brian Knowles

Director

Three-year term expiring in May 2024. Mr. Knowles is Risk Committee Vice Chairman and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching (cow/calf, stockers, poultry, wheat, and hay). Vice President of the Leflore County Farm Bureau, President of Keota Round Up Club, Assistant Fire Chief of Keota Volunteer Fire Department, and member of Keota First Baptist Church.

Jay Stinnett

Director

Four-year term expiring in May 2026. Mr. Stinnett is a member of the Risk and Compensation Committees. Occupation for the past five years – Retired Agricultural Education instructor. His primary occupation is farming and ranching (cow/calf, stocker and hay operation). Member of Tahlequah Cooperative, Cherokee County Cattleman’s Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association, and American Farmers and Ranchers. Member of Exciting Southeast Baptist Church of Tahlequah.

Shand Rasmusson

Director

Three-year term expiring in May 2024. Mr. Rasmusson is a member of the Audit Committee. Occupation for the past five years – Full-time farmer and rancher for the past 28 years. Owner/operator of Shand Diversified, a beef cattle operation with ranches in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho and Wyoming. Rasmusson’s ranches include cow/calf herds, stockers and cattle feeding. He grows wheat for grazing and uses rotational grazing practices. Member of Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and McCurtain County Cattlemen’s Association. Former state cattlemen’s association vice president and former Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Board member. Previously served on a state beef board. He is a member of a local church, where he volunteers in many capacities.

Kenny Markes

Governance Chairman

Three-year term expiring in May 2023. Mr. Markes serves on the Audit, Building, and Governance Committees. Occupation for the past five years – Farming and ranching – His operation includes wheat, soybeans, canola, a cow/calf herd and stockers. Member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association.

Rodney Holcomb

Appointed Director

Three-year term expiring in May 2023. Dr. Holcomb serves as Audit Committee Vice Chair and as a financial expert. Professor of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and the Browning Endowed Professor of Food Studies with the OSU Food & Agricultural Products Center. Dr. Holcomb has been with OSU since 1997, working in the areas of value-added agricultural products and agribusiness management. He currently serves on the OSU Retirement Investments Committee and since 2001 has served as OSU’s representative on the state’s Agricultural Enhancement & Diversification Program Board. Dr. Holcomb serves on the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Board, a non-profit corporation, and is the 2022 President-Elect.