F & M BANK
CHARLES DRIEST TITLE : CHIEF EXPERIENCE OFFICER COMPANY : F & M BANK INDUSTRY : BANKING LOCATION : UNITED STATES
Charles C . Driest serves as
Executive Vice President , Chief Experience Officer working with Deposit Operations , IT , and Marketing departments . Prior to that , he served as Senior Vice President , Director of Digital Banking at the Bank . He has experience in operations , strategy , analytics , and digital banking . Charles holds a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) – Finance from St . John ’ s University ( NY ).
Ultimately , I went to St . John ’ s University , Peter J . Tobin College of Business in New York , focused on finance , and joined the banking world in the summer of 2007 .”
Though 2007 may not have been an ideal time to join the banking industry , with the housing market crash of 2008 just around the corner , it was at this time Driest returned to his native Virginia to start his banking career at what was then a small community bank – Union Bank and Trust – but has since turned into the much larger Atlantic Union . Here , after completing several mergers and acquisitions at Union , Driest got “ the fintechmagazine . com 67