James E. (Jim) Kleinfelter
President & CEO, Director
Beachwood & Newbury
Jim is a graduate of Bowling Green State University and numerous banking trade association schools. He has been an instructor for the American Institute of Banking (AIB). The Community Bankers Association of Illinois, The Indiana Bankers Association, The Michigan Association of Community Bankers and the Ohio Bankers League. He has been a banking convention speaker, and has been a member of Risk Management Associates (formerly known a Robert Morris Associates) the banking industry’s premier risk management trade association for many years. He has authored articles for Banking Trade Association Newsletters, as well as being a contributor numerous times to national banking magazines.
440-564-9441 ext. 112
Dell Duncan
Executive Vice President – Lending
Beachwood
He resides in Chagrin Falls and is married with three daughters.
216-225-1666
H. Stewart Fitz Gibbon III
Executive Vice President – Chief Risk Management Officer / CRA Officer
Newbury
Mr. Fitz Gibbon, born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, began his banking career at what was then Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago in 1979. In 1984, he moved on to the Bank Administration Institute. After following his spouse’s academic career to Ohio, his banking career resumed in 1993 with a position at what was then First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Wooster. That bank went through a charter conversion and became Signal Bank NA before being sold to FirstMerit Corporation. After that sale, Mr. Fitz Gibbon spend a short time with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a Capital Markets Examiner on the large bank team in Cleveland before returning to the industry at Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland.
Mr. Fitz Gibbon next served at Wayne Savings Community Bank in Wooster, Ohio from 2005 through 2016. Founded in 1899 as the Wayne Building and Loan Company, Wayne Savings Community Bank is a state chartered savings and loan association with $450 million in assets, 11 branches, and 113 staff members serving a mainly rural five county area in Northeastern Ohio between Cleveland, Columbus, Akron, Canton and Mansfield. Starting as Chief Financial Officer, he was also Chief Risk Officer and Chief Operating Officer before being named President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of both the bank and its holding company in late 2014. A mutual thrift for most of its history, the bank underwent a first step conversion in 1993 and became a fully public company through a second step conversion in 2003.
Mr. Fitz Gibbon joined Geauga Savings Bank as a consultant in January 2017, becoming Interim Controller in February 2017 and Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, Compliance Officer and CRA Officer in April 2017.
Mr. Fitz Gibbon has been an invited participant in numerous regulatory outreach programs, most recently testifying at the EGRPRA Outreach Program at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on October 19, 2015. Mr. Fitz Gibbon has also been an active member of the Ohio Bankers League, most recently serving as Chair of the Ohio Bankers Foundation for Financial Literacy during 2016. Mr. Fitz Gibbon is an active community member, serving on the boards of the Buckeye Council, Boy Scouts of America and the United Way of United Way of Wayne and Holmes Counties. He also serves on the finance committee of Central American Medical Outreach (CAMO), is assistant treasurer of St. James Episcopal Church and a member of the board of trustees of the Mohican Sailing Club. He is a past board chair of the Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce and a long-time member of the Financial Managers Society.
330-464-0509
Jean Edwards
Vice President/CFO/Treasurer
As Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Jean is responsible for overseeing the Accounting, Treasury, and Investment functions of the bank; and managing the staff to produce financial statements and regulatory reports. She joined Geauga Savings Bank in September 2018 as Controller and was promoted to CFO/VP in February 2019.
Jean is a native of Trumbull County and has over 30 years of extensive financial experience, including over 26 years as chief financial officer of two community banks, both in Columbiana County, where she also served for 18 years on the Board of Directors of both banks. She has also served on the Boards of the Ohio Valley College of Technology and the American Red Cross in East Liverpool. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Mount Union and has attended numerous banking seminars.
She currently resides in Columbiana County with her husband and two children. In her spare time she enjoys reading and cooking.
440-564-9441 ext. 107
Maria A. Hydell
Vice President – Lead Credit Officer
Beachwood
Maria grew up in Northeast Ohio. She earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration (majoring in Finance and Economics) from Miami University. She later went on to receive a master’s degree in Urban Planning, Design and Development as well as a Masters of Business Administration from Cleveland State University.
Maria resides in Aurora with her husband and two daughters. She is the former Chairman of the City of Aurora Planning Commission. In her free time she enjoys running, swimming, and volunteering with her daughters’ school.
440-564-9441 ext. 165
Eric Johnson
Vice President | Loan Documentation and Loan Operations
Beachwood
Prior to joining Geauga Savings Bank, Eric was the Vice President | Loan Administration with Ohio Commerce Bank. He has held various management and leadership positions in branch banking, bank operations, private banking and commercial banking.
Eric is married and has lived in University Heights for over 20 years.
440-564-9441 ext. 124
Joan LaMarca
Vice President/Human Resources
Newbury
440-564-9441 ext. 188
Donna Light
Vice President/Operations Manager
Newbury
440-564-9441 ext. 153
Heathyr Ullmo
Vice President – Senior Banking Officer
Beachwood
She resides in Mayfield Heights with her husband.
330-603-3634
Karen A. Kenney
Assistant Vice President – Branch Manager
Newbury
440-564-9441 ext. 147
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Christina Visnicky
Senior Universal Banker
Beachwood
Christina recently joined the Geauga Savings family in 2018. Prior to Geauga Savings, Christina was with another financial institution as a Small Business Banking Specialist. She also has 24 years of customer service. Christina was born in Oklahoma and spent her summers visiting her grandparents and uncles here locally. She moved to Ohio in 1999 after meeting her now husband, Ernie and to attend college. She and Ernie live in Solon with their 3 children.
440-564-9441 ext. 273
Troy McMahan
Residential Lending Executive Sales Manager
Beachwood
He is a lifelong Cleveland resident.
“Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots- but you have to play the ball where it lies”
– Bobby Jones
440-564-9441 ext. 120
Chris McManis
Assistant Vice President/Commercial Banking Officer
Beachwood
Chris joined our team in March of 2018 and is excited to be in a better position to serve his clients with more custom and robust solutions to meet their financial goals.
He started his banking career with National City Bank in 2009, since then Chris has held many positions within retail and business banking. His passion is helping businesses grow; he is dedicated to his clients by serving them both professionally and personally no matter how small or large the task. Chris is a Northeast Ohio native who currently resides in Berea with his family.
440-321-2010
Blaine Wolff
Information Security Officer
Newbury
Blaine joined Geauga Savings Bank in September 2009 as a consultant filling the role of Information Technology Manager. In April 2016 Blaine became a Bank employee with the added responsibility of Information Security Officer.
As Information Technology Manager, Blaine is responsible for all aspects of the technology assets employed by the Bank and providing direct leadership to the IT Team.
As Information Security Office, Blaine is responsible and accountable for administration of the Information Security Program which includes directly managing the risk assessment process and overseeing the development of policies, standards and procedures, testing and security reporting processes.
Blaine was born in Texas, grew up in Western Pennsylvania and has lived in Northeast Ohio for the past 30 years. Blaine and his wife Kimberly have two children and three granddaughters.
440-564-9441 ext. 162
Kathy Seeley
Assistant Vice President/Corporate Secretary
Beachwood
440-564-9441 ext. 113