Chris serves as CFO for Bankers’ Bank of the West and its consulting affiliates, Bank Strategies and CivITasBank Solutions.For the bank, he oversees financial reporting, liquidity and funding, and information technology. Upon graduating from Colorado State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, Chris launched his career with a small community bank, where he gained experience in credit, lending,and bank information technology. Today he is actively involved with initiatives pertaining to faster payments for community banks, the U.S. Coin Task Force, and the ABA’s Correspondent Bank Working Group and the Risk Management School advisory board. Chris has a Master’s Degree in business administration from the University of Colorado; in addition, he completed the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and the ABA Advanced Risk Management programs.