Certified B Corporation (2024 Score: 148.6)

Certified Community Development Financial Institution (designated by U.S. Treasury)

Member of Global Alliance for Banking on Values

Jean Chalifoux Kiely – EVP, Director of Consumer Banking

Jean Chalifoux Kiely leads our consumer banking leadership team for our branches in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Sioux Falls and online.  Her role centers on upgrading consumer banking systems, improving the customer experience, and keeping things aligned with compliance and financial goals, while leading the team through key transformation initiatives.

Denise Toussaint – SVP, Regional Retail Manager

Denise Toussaint has more than 20 years of experience in managing regional bank branches. Denise’s role is focused on leading retail banking operations, ensuring compliance, and driving staff development, while being a hands-on leader who supports teams and fosters engagement. She is based out of our Washington Ave. branch in Minneapolis.

Katie Galloway – Retail Sales Officer

Katie Galloway works to deliver high-impact learning opportunities that empower our bankers to thrive and provide the best possible experience for our customers. She also focuses on cultivating community-based learning opportunities to empower customers with financial knowledge

Roberto Valdizan – Senior Relationship Banker

Roberto Valdizan uses his own experience of immigrating to the U.S. from Peru to support customers and their financial goals. One of his areas of expertise is the Sunrise Banks Credit Builder program, which helps customers build, or rebuild, their credit score. Roberto is a frequent guest on a local Spanish-language radio show where he talks about money, credit and financial goals. Hablo Español.

Chuck Meier – SVP, Mortgage Director

Chuck Meier joined Sunrise Banks in 2019. He oversees the mortgage sales team that works to drive mortgage loan sales and revenue growth. Chuck’s focus is on market share growth, recruiting, and retention. Chuck has spent more than 35 years in the financial services industry, including 30 of those years in mortgage lending.

Andrea Altamirano – VP, Mortgage Loan Program Manager*

Andrea manages the strategic relationships between customers and the mortgage loan officer team through a variety of techniques and partnerships. She acts as a consultant to clients and a resource to the bank in developing and retaining client business. Andrea also negotiates loan proposals, analyzes and evaluates credit requests, recommends appropriate credit grades, and manages growth of the company’s mortgage loan portfolio. Hablo Español.

*Andrea is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Dave Scott — EVP, Director of Commercial Banking

Dave leads the Commercial Banking team at Sunrise Banks, which covers commercial real estate lending, business banking, loans for small and medium-sized businesses (including SBA), portfolio management and treasury management services. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry, including 16 years at Sunrise Banks.

Corey Mensink – EVP, Director of Commercial Lending

With over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, Corey has developed a deep expertise in commercial and business banking, serving clients across various sectors and markets. As EVP, Director of Commercial Lending, he leads highly engaged teams that embrace change and work hard to become a key strategic partner for the clients they serve.

Chris Clapham – SVP, Manager of Business Banking

Chris Clapham is a seasoned commercial finance professional with over 14 years of experience spanning both corporate finance and commercial lending. After earning his MBA, Chris spent several years as Director of Finance where he managed a company’s financial strategy and banking relationships. Transitioning into commercial lending, Chris has spent more than a decade helping hundreds of businesses achieve their financial goals.

Bee Moua – VP, Director of SBA Lending

Bee Moua is the VP, Director of Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending at Sunrise Banks. SBA loan options are guaranteed by the federal government and are offered to reward entrepreneurial spirit and propel the economy. Bee and his team work to generate high quality SBA loan relationships with small business owners and entrepreneurs throughout Minnesota and South Dakota.

Damon Sehr – South Dakota Market President*

Damon Sehr is Market President for our Sunrise Banks team based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Damon’s leadership in finance includes working closely with local organizations to build purposeful, mission-aligned partnerships.

*Damon is based in Sioux Falls, SD.

Mike Morrell – EVP, Strategic Lending / BeneMoney

Mike leads the Strategic Lending team at Sunrise Banks. He and his team work with incentive and tax credit programs that utilize partnerships between local governments, nonprofit organizations and small businesses. Mike and his team can speak about how these initiatives help differentiate Sunrise Banks from other banks and the efforts to form these unique partnerships.

Mike also leads our team for BeneMoney, a financial wellness platform that provides No Credit Check Loans paired with credit counseling sessions so employees can get back on track financially and eventually participate in other financial wellness benefits from their companies.

Mary Stoick – SVP, Director of Tax Credit Lending

Mary Stoick specializes in a variety of tax credit lending programs, including our New Markets Tax Credit program. Projects using NMTCs often involve the acquisition, rehabilitation or construction of real estate or the expansion of operating businesses sparking economic growth in low-income communities.

The NMTC program drives capital to economically distressed communities and in turn stimulates economic growth and revitalization for those same communities. It helps attract investment capital and provides small businesses, nonprofits and developers access to better financing rates and terms than typically available in traditional lending programs.

Mary can speak about the growth and reach of these special tax credit programs and how they have helped invigorate low to moderate income communities.

Laura Wildenborg – VP, Strategic Lending

Laura Wildenborg leads the Deposits side of our Net Zero Banking program at Sunrise Banks. This innovative program offers both personal and business banking customers the opportunity to designate the money in their checking, savings or CD accounts for loans geared towards projects that work to reduce or avoid carbon emissions.

Laura can speak about the development and growth of the Net Zero Banking program, how banks can become more active in sustainability efforts and how they can encourage customers to do the same through ethical banking practices.

Andy Carlson – Senior Commercial Loan Officer

Andy Carlson is a senior commercial loan officer at Sunrise Banks. He specializes in the Lending side of our Net Zero Banking program. He works with a variety of customers who are committed to developing projects that actively work to reduce or avoid carbon emissions. These projects can qualify for a lower loan rate.

Andy can speak about working with customers and on projects that actively reduce or avoid carbon emissions.

Tyler Berends – Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Tyler Berends serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Sunrise Banks. He is tasked with safeguarding company systems and protecting sensitive customer information through robust information security practices. Topics Tyler can speak about include the IS tools and efforts around protecting customer data and protecting against fraudulent activity.

Catherine Higgins Whiteside – SVP, Marketing and Communications

Catherine leads Marketing and Communications for Sunrise Banks. Her team brings the company’s mission, vision and values to life through high-quality marketing and public relations campaigns, brand and reputation management, and impactful storytelling about our customers, employees and communities.

Catherine can speak about marketing career paths, building a values-based brand, B Corp and triple-bottom line companies, the role of fourth-sector businesses, among other topics.

Eric Schurr – Chief Payment Strategy Officer / Co-Host, Social Currency Podcast

Eric serves as the Chief Payment Strategy Officer at Sunrise Banks, partnering with fintechs to deliver products and capabilities that enhance financial inclusion and social impact. He is a Certified Foresight Practitioner, an applied futurist, and a professional speaker who is passionate about empowering individuals and communities to strive for abundance and building resilient, trustworthy systems in a complex and uncertain environment.

Eric co-hosts the Social Currency podcast, along with Tyler Seydel, Chief Fintech Officer at Sunrise Banks. Each month, Eric and Tyler introduce listeners to some of the most innovative changemakers in fintech and social impact, and how they are dismantling barriers and reshaping their industries for a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable future.