Christian G. Heinkel has been appointed manager of Citizens National Bank”s East Columbus Banking Centre, located at 115 Lehmberg Road.
Heinkel has eight years experience in the financial services industry, having served as a financial adviser for UBS PaineWebber, Inc., and as an investment associate with Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Most recently, he served as a financial service specialist at Regions Bank.
Heinkel has a Bachelor of Science degree in aviation business administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has a Master of Science degree in finance from the University of Colorado at Denver and a master”s degree in Business Administration degree from Mississippi State University.
He and his wife, Sarah, have one daughter, Sophia, who is 1 year old.
Kristi Beard, former manager of the East Columbus Banking Centre, has been promoted to bank manager at the North Columbus Banking Centre.
Beard joined Citizens National Bank in 1996. During her career at Citizens National, she has been promoted several times from the position of bank officer, to an assistant vice president specializing in mortgage lending, to her previous position of bank manager at the East Columbus Banking Centre.
Originally from Brooksville, Beard is a 1990 graduate of MSU with a degree in banking and finance. She was employed with the former Deposit Guaranty National Bank for six years before joining the Citizens National.
She and her husband, Heath, have an 11-year-old daughter, Heather.
Mark B. Jordan has joined the bank as a senior relationship banker.
With more than 20 years of banking experience, Jordan comes to Citizens National from M & F Bank where he served as the president of the Rankin County/Jackson market.
He has a bachelor”s degree in business administration focusing on banking/finance and managerial finance from the University of Mississippi. He also serves as a faculty member at the Mississippi School of Banking, and is a graduate of The Graduate School of Banking at LSU and MSB.
Jordan has two sons, Reed and Will.
Chase Frazure has also joined Citizens National Bank as a relationship banker.
With 10 years of prior banking experience, Frazure was also most recently employed at M & F Bank. He began his career with M & F as a part-time teller while he was attending MSU. He later served as a management trainee for M&F in Brandon, and advanced to the position of consumer lender. Upon receiving a promotion to the position of branch manager, Chase transferred to Ridgeland.
Chase later served as a credit analyst in the bank”s Kosciusko market, and was vice president and commercial lender for M&F in the Starkville area before joining Citizens National.
Originally from Kosciusko, Chase and his wife, Lindsey, have a daughter, Kambree, and a 5-year-old son, Hayden.
Chase graduated with a bachelor”s degree in business Administration from MSU. He also is a graduate of the Mississippi School of Banking at Ole Miss and the Southeastern School of Commercial Lending at Vanderbilt.
Citizens National Bank is an independent, Mississippi-owned bank, which has 27 bank locations throughout the state of Mississippi.
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