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Bob Bahl Bob is President and CEO of AgCountry Farm Credit Services, which serves more than 11,000 farmers and ranchers in eastern North Dakota, and northwest and west central Minnesota and agribusinesses nationwide. Bob leads a dynamic team of more than 400 employees in 27 offices who deliver a full spectrum of credit and financial services products to the agricultural market. Raised on a family grain and livestock farm near Mohall, ND, Bob earned a BS/BA in Finance and Accounting with MBA studies from the University of North Dakota. After spending several years in the insurance and banking industry, Bob began his Farm Credit Services career in 1980 as Director of Farm Tax and Accounting. He later assumed the roles of CFO and CCO before being named CEO of Farm Credit Services of Grand Forks in 1993. A merger between AgCountry and FCS of Grand Forks resulted in Bob assuming the position of President and CEO of the combined AgCountry association in 2008. Bob and his wife Kerry live in Fargo, North Dakota and have three grown children. They enjoy spending time with family, traveling, jet-skiing and fishing. |
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Phil DiPofi Phil DiPofi earned his bachelor's degree from the State University College of New York at Buffalo, and his master's in business administration with a concentration in accounting from Niagara University. Phil most recently served as Chief Banking Officer at CoBank, which is part of the Farm Credit System that provides financing for agricultural cooperatives throughout the nation. At CoBank he was responsible for all of the bank's strategic banking functions, including Regional Agribusiness, Corporate Agribusiness, and Banking Services. As the President and CEO of Northwest FCS, Phil is ultimately responsible for the association's $10 billion portfolio of owned and serviced loans, the association's overall financial performance and for more than 600 employees in 47 offices throughout the Northwest. |
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Gary Dyer Gary Dyer has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Farm Credit Services Southwest since 1990, and employed in the Farm Credit System since 1974. He is originally from a farming and ranching operation in northern California. Gary took a short sabbatical from the Farm Credit System in 1981 to 1983 to serve as California State Executive Director of USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Gary is involved in numerous organizations, including the A.S.U. Advisory Board for the School of Agribusiness and Environmental Sciences. He also served on a congressional commission to address Farm Bill payment limitation issues. |
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Bill Lipinski "One of my goals from the beginning was to lead an organization that embraces change management. Farm Credit East is a frequent pilot site for FPI systems. I want my staff shaping the systems and being on the leading edge of adoption. It makes us better as an organization. It makes FPI better and it leads us to approach problems with an out-of-the-box mentality."
"Farm Credit East is an early adopter, and I am proud of the efficiency and the advanced portfolio management capabilities that we have achieved as a result. Leaders are forged through change management. The FPI relationship is a perfect laboratory for me to test leaders of the future." |
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Mark Littlefield President & CEO, Farm Credit West Mark Littlefield has served in his current position since January 2011. Prior to that he served as an executive vice president (and senior vice president) of Farm Credit West since its founding in 2001. He was senior vice president and vice president of Central Coast Farm Credit, ACA (as well as its predecessors) from 1986 until the merger that formed Farm Credit West. He has been employed in the Farm Credit System since 1984. In addition to his employment with Farm Credit West and its predecessor organizations, he has served as assistant vice president for Southern California PCA. |
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Mary McBride Chief Banking Officer, CoBankMary McBride is responsible for all of CoBank's core banking functions, including Agribusiness, Strategic Relationships, Rural Infrastructure and Banking Services. She is a member of the bank's Management Executive Committee and Senior Leadership Team.
Mary joined CoBank in 1993. Prior to her current position, Mary served as CoBank's chief operating officer and as executive vice president for the bank's Communications and Energy Banking Group, serving rural communications, energy and water customers across the U.S. In total, she has more than 30 years of financial experience. Before joining CoBank, Mary worked as senior vice president of Wells Fargo/First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. Prior to that, she was assistant vice president at Bank of Boston. |
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Ray Nowak Ray Nowak joined the Farm Credit System in 1983 and has been president of Farm Credit in Maine for 18 years. As chief executive, he oversees the senior officers who have direct management responsibility for the company's three primary operating functions. Ray sits on the Association's Management Executive Committee and on the Executive Loan Committee.
Prior to assuming his current role in 1994, Ray held various lending and financial service management positions in the Northeast, serving the region's farmers, fishermen, loggers, and their rural communities. |
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George Putnam George Putnam, age 56, has been employed by the Association (or one of its predecessors) since 1984. He was hired as a Loan Officer and assumed the position of Controller in 1986. In 1995, with the formation of Yankee, he became Chief Financial Officer. He was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 2003. George assumed his present position in 2006. Prior to working for the Association, George served as controller of the Richmond Cooperative Association of Richmond, Vermont. George holds a degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Maine and an MBA from the University of Chicago. In 1993, he graduated from the American Bankers Association's Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He grew up on a family dairy farm in Cambridge, Vermont. |
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